On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:27:56 -0500, Tim Wescott
wrote:

On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:47:00 -0700, Gunner Asch wrote:

On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:10:44 -0400, Spehro Pefhany
wrote:

On 13 Sep 2009 16:36:27 GMT, the renowned steamer
wrote:

--Got to ruminatin' this morning; how the heck is steel wool made?
Anyone know?

I'll avoid giving the obvious answer involving metallic ruminants...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_wool

Steel wool is made from low-carbon steel (low enough to be close to
plain iron). It is not made by drawing ?steel wool wire? through a
tapered die, but rather by a process more like broaching where a heavy
steel wire is pulled through a toothed die that removes a thin wire
shaving.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany


I always wondered why steel wool has sharp edges than is "round" as
would be found by pulling through a die. Excellent The current
Democratic party has lost its ideological basis for existence.
- It is NOT fiscally responsible.
- It is NOT ethically honorable.
- It has started wars based on lies.
- It does not support the well-being of americans - only billionaires. -
It has suppresed constitutional guaranteed liberties. - It has foisted a
liar as president upon America. - It has violated US national
sovereignty in trade treaties. - It has refused to enforce the national
borders.

...It no longer has valid reasons to exist.
Lorad474

You misspelled "Republican" there, Gunner.

If it applied to Republicans, I would have said Republicans, old sot.

Gunner


"Lenin called them "useful idiots," those people living in
liberal democracies who by giving moral and material support
to a totalitarian ideology in effect were braiding the rope that
would hang them. Why people who enjoyed freedom and prosperity worked
passionately to destroy both is a fascinating question, one still with us
today. Now the useful idiots can be found in the chorus of appeasement,
reflexive anti-Americanism, and sentimental idealism trying to inhibit
the necessary responses to another freedom-hating ideology, radical Islam"

Bruce C. Thornton, a professor of Classics at American University of Cal State Fresno