Slightly OT, but how is steel wool actually manufactured? In front of
me I have an enormous pack of the stuff and just thought it can't be
just extra-fine lathe turnings :-)

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Frank Erskine wrote:
Slightly OT, but how is steel wool actually manufactured? In front of
me I have an enormous pack of the stuff and just thought it can't be
just extra-fine lathe turnings :-)

What does you're wife think of pillow talk? :-(

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On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 22:51:50 +0000 (UTC), Frank Erskine wrote:

how is steel wool actually manufactured?

Electric Sheep.

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Frank Erskine wrote:
Slightly OT, but how is steel wool actually manufactured? In front of
me I have an enormous pack of the stuff and just thought it can't be
just extra-fine lathe turnings :-)

One for the search engines.

Let us know what you find out, YLB.

"Frank Erskine" wrote in message
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Slightly OT, but how is steel wool actually manufactured? In front of
me I have an enormous pack of the stuff and just thought it can't be
just extra-fine lathe turnings :-)


It's metal filings, welded together end to end.

On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 22:51:50 +0000 (UTC), Frank Erskine
wrote:

Slightly OT, but how is steel wool actually manufactured?

You don't want to know - it's just _funnier_ making it up.


AFAIK it's like wire drawing. You pull a bar of steel through a set of
teeth that scrape fine swarf off it.

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On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 22:51:50 +0000 (UTC), Frank Erskine wrote:

how is steel wool actually manufactured?

Electric Sheep.

Otherwise known as Blade Runner?

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"Frank Erskine" wrote in message
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Slightly OT, but how is steel wool actually manufactured? In front of
me I have an enormous pack of the stuff and just thought it can't be
just extra-fine lathe turnings :-)

It is hard-drawn wire, taken down to a very fine size.

Colin Bignell

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:04:14 +0000 (GMT), John Cartmell wrote:

Electric Sheep.

Otherwise known as Blade Runner?

Did I dream that?

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"Andy Dingley" wrote in message
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On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 22:51:50 +0000 (UTC), Frank Erskine
wrote:

Slightly OT, but how is steel wool actually manufactured?

You don't want to know - it's just _funnier_ making it up.

What you NEED to do start athread called "Steam powered cars using steel
wool as a back up fuel" and not only will you get an answer but you'll also
find ou how to spin your own!

HTH

John

"Andy Dingley" wrote in message
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On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 22:51:50 +0000 (UTC), Frank Erskine
wrote:

Slightly OT, but how is steel wool actually manufactured?

You don't want to know - it's just _funnier_ making it up.

What you NEED to do start a thread called "Steam powered cars using steel
wool as a back up fuel" and not only will you get an answer but you'll also
find ou how to spin your own!

HTH

John

In article
Frank Erskine wrote:
Slightly OT, but how is steel wool actually manufactured? In front of
me I have an enormous pack of the stuff and just thought it can't be
just extra-fine lathe turnings :-)


A thin ribbon of steel is drawn past an array of blades, each of which
removes a sliver.

I've just run a micrometer over an entire pack of it and found that
some pieces are about 10% out of gauge. Can I get a refund on this out
of tolerance product or should I just file it down with a Dreadnought.

Lord Elpus.

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saying something like:

In article ,
Nigel Molesworth wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:04:14 +0000 (GMT), John Cartmell wrote:

Electric Sheep.

Otherwise known as Blade Runner?

Did I dream that?

Only if you're an android. ;-)

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Combis on fire off the
shoulder of Drivel. I watched Hacksaws glitter in the dark near the
Hepworth gate. All those moments will be lost in time like pointless
arguments in usenet... Time to build an extension."
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Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember John Cartmell
saying something like:

In article ,
Nigel Molesworth wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:04:14 +0000 (GMT), John Cartmell wrote:

Electric Sheep.

Otherwise known as Blade Runner?

Did I dream that?

Only if you're an android. ;-)

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Combis on fire off the
shoulder of Drivel. I watched Hacksaws glitter in the dark near the
Hepworth gate. All those moments will be lost in time like pointless
arguments in usenet... Time to build an extension."

How long has drivel been posting anyway?
He's got to be getting near his 4 years.

"Ian Stirling" wrote in message
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How long has drivel been posting anyway?
He's got to be getting near his 4 years.

Is there a time limit?

Mary

On 22 Jan 2006 18:47:53 GMT Ian Stirling wrote :
How long has drivel been posting anyway?
He's got to be getting near his 4 years.

From my messagebase he's been around for at least six years, Adam, then
IMM, now Drivel.

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On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 20:40:53 +0000, Mary Fisher wrote:


"Ian Stirling" wrote in message
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How long has drivel been posting anyway? He's got to be getting near his
4 years.

Is there a time limit?

Have you not seen "Blade Runner"? The other messages were para-phrases
from it. The replicants in the movie have a built in four year life
span.

Ah - sorry, I hadn't realised. I was forced to sit in front of it when we
visited a son in Germany. I found it so repulsive I couldn't take it in.

Yes, I know it was a cult film and that I should watch it to be streetwise
but there are limits to what my conventional mind can take ...

If I had known I would have been amused at the idea of IMM having a shelf
life. Except that someone once accused me of being his replica!

Mary

On 22 Jan 2006 18:47:53 GMT, Ian Stirling
wrote:

Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Combis on fire off the
shoulder of Drivel. I watched Hacksaws glitter in the dark near the
Hepworth gate. All those moments will be lost in time like pointless
arguments in usenet... Time to build an extension."

How long has drivel been posting anyway?
He's got to be getting near his 4 years.


What makes you thnk he's a Nexus 6? I'd guess he's more like a
pre-production Nexus 1.


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Mary Fisher wrote:
Have you not seen "Blade Runner"? The other messages were para-phrases
from it. The replicants in the movie have a built in four year life
span.

Ah - sorry, I hadn't realised. I was forced to sit in front of it when we
visited a son in Germany. I found it so repulsive I couldn't take it in.

Ditto. I was relying on knowledge of the book. ;-)

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On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:54:42 +0000 (GMT), John Cartmell wrote:

I was relying on knowledge of the book. ;-)

Which I think is where we started:

In article ,
Nigel Molesworth wrote:
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 22:51:50 +0000 (UTC), Frank Erskine wrote:
how is steel wool actually manufactured?

Electric Sheep.

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On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:24:20 +0000, Matt wrote:

On 22 Jan 2006 18:47:53 GMT, Ian Stirling
wrote:

Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Combis on fire off the
shoulder of Drivel. I watched Hacksaws glitter in the dark near the
Hepworth gate. All those moments will be lost in time like pointless
arguments in usenet... Time to build an extension."

How long has drivel been posting anyway?
He's got to be getting near his 4 years.

What makes you thnk he's a Nexus 6? I'd guess he's more like a
pre-production Nexus 1.

And there was me thinking he was an escaped clone of Prescott, gone wrong.