Re: Standard formula

I've added so glycerine much the tissue lays down like Naugahyde. really!

"What's Naugahyde?"

"Shut up kid you're too young."

When the bottom fell out of the cowhide business my pappy starting raising
Naugas.

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At 02:17 PM 12/26/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Sandy King wrote:
>
> > That is my observation as well.
>
>I'll third it!
>
> > useful in the winter because with low humidity the tissue typically
> > dries excessively and the edges of the paper/gelatin become as the
> > edges of a sharp knife. Can't tell you how many times I have actually
> > suffered serious cuts from dried tissue!!
>
>Yes, this has been a problem that has concerned me. I've recently started
>adding glycerine and my tissue is much less brittle. The other ingredient
>I tried a while back was Sorbitol per Paul Lehman's suggestion. That
>seemed to work, but I've yet to come up with a good way of testing
>pliability in a way that I can make more than subjective comparisons. (I
>bend it and it seems like it takes more or less to break it than a
>different batch. Kind of hard to tell for those more subtle differences.)
>Any ideas?

In 20 foot rolls the difference is astounding. I've had some virtually
shatter when trying to unroll it.

Two things I am concerned about:

One is no way do I want to cut sheet sizes. Seems historically the carbon
tissue makers didn't want to either.

On the other hand I can't sheet a 10 foot sheet flat so rolls it is.

--Dick

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Received on Wed Dec 26 15:30:55 2001