Klarinet Archive - Posting 000828.txt from 1998/09

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Aluminum & Plastic Buffets
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 06:14:42 -0400

Well -- if you have your own appropriately protected electric furnace, I
suppose you can. Do you suppose Buffet would get one?
Incidentally, who actually makes the composite from Buffet's wood
shavings?
Roger Shilcock

On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Bill Hausmann wrote:

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