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flocculation This question pinged one of those deep memories, so I googled and found this which was what I was struggling to remember. Water treatment works use a flocculant to cause microparticulate matter ... |
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re: fleece doesn't unravel The stuff I've used tended to shed a lot of fluff if the edges weren't sealed. I guess there's fleece, and there's fleece... so worth experimenting with the candidate fleece; if ... |
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re: second attempt > 1. Your boiling pot is too large for the burner. So, heat is lost from the top of it almost as fast as heat is going into the bottom. 1a. Your boiling pot is too small for the burner, and h... |
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Pertex no longer in the UK > Unless you live in the UK pertex is a pain to properly source for MYOG Perseverence Mills (and Pertex) was sold to Mitsui in 2005, so Pertex is no longer manufactured in the UK. And so UK ... |
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re: sewing fleece > is there anything special about sewing this kind of material? I'd suggest that you find a sewing machine that can sew an edge-locking stitch right up to the edge of the fabric (it makes... |
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re: Burning out the sides > So I did what you guys suggested, and just pressed it in, Errmm... no you didn't... I suggested that you make the outer can tall enough to reach the 'shoulder' of the inner c... |
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no need for glue or rivets In my experience, there's no need for glue of rivets when making a 'trangia-style', or 'pepsi-can' burner. If you make the lower, outer can come up the full height of the bur... |
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re: fibre alignment > One, Apex, and Primaloft Sport, all have fibers going primarily in one direction Aha. I've only ever used Thinsulate, which is pretty random. So, single axis quilting perpendicular ... |
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re: Re: are squares needed? > To me, the rows of stitches that parallel the fibers of the insulation won't do much, because you can easily pull apart the insulation in that direction so it won't do much But once... |
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boundary conditions > I was spending a lot of time thinking about boundary conditions that should be used to solve the equation. Then it struck me, most tents have a series of clips or sleeves that constrain the po... |
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