Hammer steaming

Ron Torrella torrella@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
Thu, 25 May 1995 22:32:03 -0500


On Thu, 25 May 1995, stanwood wrote:

> John Mussellwhite:
>
> A comment: Sustained heat above 200f will degrade the integrity of the wool
> fibers complex molecular structure and lead to a decrease it's the felts
> liveliness.

David -

Wouldn't 200F be about what a heatgun (one of those Unger spit-fires)
would do if you aimed it at the hammer for a little too long?  Your
description sounds like the perfect euphemism for "heat these babies up
too much and you'll burn 'em to a crisp!"  :-)

Ron Torrella
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