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Re: Do your friend a favor
By:Robert N Pruden
Date: 9/19/2008, 3:12 am
In Response To: Do your friend a favor (Paul G. Jacobson)

: There are a gazillion
: different mixtures of minerals that can be melted to make 'glass'. Some
: impart color to the mix, others make it stronger, or more ductile, or
: change the melting point. If you take anyof these glass recipes and make
: fine threads from them you can spin and weave these strands to make
: fiberglass cloth. You can deal with just one recipe and get a wide range
: of results by making the strands thicker or thinner, by varying
: thethickness of the thread made from the strands, and by changing the
: weaving pattern of these threads.

You're causing my eyes to cross just thinking of the possibilities.

Robert (Ca)N('t see straight) Pruden

Messages In This Thread

Material: E glass
Kim -- 9/18/2008, 1:55 pm
Re: Material: E glass
Bill Hamm -- 9/19/2008, 10:38 am
Re: Material: E glass
Pedro Almeida -- 9/19/2008, 1:51 am
Do your friend a favor
Paul G. Jacobson -- 9/18/2008, 5:57 pm
Re: Do your friend a favor
Robert N Pruden -- 9/19/2008, 3:12 am
part 2
Paul G. Jacobson -- 9/18/2008, 6:27 pm
Re: part 2
Robert N Pruden -- 9/19/2008, 3:17 am
Re: Material: E glass *LINK*
Andrew Sommer -- 9/18/2008, 4:49 pm