====A few years ago,I went down that road with the FPL and, if I
remember
correctly, didn't even get a reply. I also sent an email to Proctor and
Gamble setting forth the issue and got a non-responsive, politely
dismissive
answer from them. As to all the sound and fury emitting above, I am of
the
feeling that an interested, motivated person with a half-way decent
microscope could set up an experiment viewing the action of LDD in the
presence of wood cells. I am now accepting donations for the purchase of
an
electron microscope.*G* A number of years ago, Lyn Mangiameli attempted
to
run a survey on the use of LDD but got so few responses that no conclusive
data could be derived from it.

As it stands now, as it did a few years ago, we are left only with
anecdotal
"evidence" as the efficacy of LDD. I haven't been able to turn for a
couple
of years due to back and leg problems, so only have maybe three year's
experience with it. As I have had a sovereign experience with it, I
highly
recommend it. In that time, I have not had to study the nature of wood,
as
it seems LDD manages to trump such considerations. "Fait ce que voudra" as
our Eastern Canadian turners might say. In more usual 'Merikin parlance:
"Ya pays yer money and takes yer chances!"*G*

Leif

I hear what you are saying and agree with all your points. I hope someone
picks up this banner and runs with it. Dan