Klarinet Archive - Posting 000827.txt from 1998/09

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Aluminum & Plastic Buffets
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 05:34:02 -0400

At 08:48 AM 9/23/98 +0100, Roger Shilcock wrote:
>I'll expand on my previous point about this. Wood dust is obviously
>inflammable, and you have to bear that very much in mind in a
>wood-processing enterprise. Generally, though, you have to *set* fire to
>wood - with aluminium dust, you may not even have to do that.
>Aluminium also notoriously suffers from "creep", even at room temperature.
>Finally, when you've made your instrument and you haven't set the place on
>fire and you've kept the dust out of your workers' lungs, what do you *do*
>with the dust and shavings? You can't very well make them into a
>GreenLine......

No, but you can melt them down and reuse them, can't you?

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