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Re: Woofus Factor

Author: mschmidt
Date: 2014-08-14 05:08

I suspect that defining the "soaked" state is just as hard as defining the "dry" state. Otherwise, I don't know why we are worried about "oversoaking" cane. At either end of the spectrum you can probably get to a reasonably reliable endpoint, but I don't know whether these endpoints would be particularly relevant, or convenient. You could dry the cane to very low water levels under vacuum. After many hours or days of soaking, you might reach a point at which no more water is absorbed--but you'd have to do that under sterile conditions, or else bacteria and fungi could start chewing away the carbohydrates. And sterilizing the cane itself before you immerse it in water would probably require either autoclaving or immersion in a chemical disinfectant, and either of these processes could also change the nature of cane.

An easier approach might be to decide on a "normal" water content, and dry/humidify the cane to that level. If you look at texts on wood engineering, moduli are typically given for a specified water content--15% or something like that. I don't know offhand how they determine those water contents, though. I could look it up. If I wasn't hungry, and thinking about dinner.

Mike

Mike

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