In article ,
Larry Jaques wrote:

I notice a significant number of woman authors in the contents. I'd been
under the impression that women were kitchen dwellers or household
managers at that time (1901-1916). Guess I was wrong, at least in the
A&C community.

That's good! There have always been a few women artists, and
Elizabeth Eaton Burton has always been my favorite of those. Look for
her lamps and leather + hammered copper book covers. Outstanding!

I'm always a bit surprised at the number of women who influenced
history. We've been taught that men did everything and women stayed home
to raise kids and run the house but it just wasn't true. There were many
women involved outside the home in the A&C movement and history in
general- not just laborers, but real innovators and influential. Names
escape me at the moment, but I know I've read at least a few instances
of women running companies plus taking over ownership when their
husbands died. Just fer instance, Charles R. Makintosh's wife was a
designer in her own right and they partnered with another husband and
wife couple in Glasgow. I don't remember her name because the sexism, at
that time and since, has generated more recognition for her husband. Sad
really.

--
Owen Lowe and his Fly-by-Night Copper Company
____

"Sure we'll have fascism in America, but it'll come disguised
as 100% Americanism." -- Huey P. Long

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 19:05:42 -0500, Tom Watson
vaguely proposed a theory
.......and in reply I say!:

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A customer called me today and said that the keeper for a lock that we
use for their showcases is screwed into the endgrain of the
particleboard. This connection is failing, they say.

I have my own opinion on this but I would like to know if my fellow
Wreckers think that there is any directionality to particleboard.

I already understand that this is made under a hot press, which
increases the density of the board on its face but, is there any
difference in holding power for a screw driven through the face v. the
edge?

Yes. The endgrain is far weaker for screw holding, both for pullout
and for movement sideways. That holds even more so if the screw is
pulling along the wood end, rather than across it. This gets
difficult, as I reckon the screw will start _loosening_ more easily
along the end, but will tear the wood to pieces across ways more
easily.

If the end is clamped between other wood (in a dado for instance) this
can change a lot.

I don't like or use particle board.

Didn't like OSB too much until I did a fair amount of work with it
(shearwall testing); changed my opinion.

MDF id pretty good stuff; strong, machines well and paints up nice. I
use it a lot for shop garage cabinets / shelving.

MDF has 4 planes of "endgrain" but one can work around it.

cheers
Bob