SC - "throrow a straynour" - A query about horsetail
CBlackwill at aol.com
CBlackwill at aol.com
Tue May 30 23:10:09 PDT 2000
In a message dated 5/30/00 10:42:53 PM Pacific Daylight Time, LrdRas at aol.com
writes:
> << So why would you want such an item today? It would seem like a strainer
of
> that style made with monofilament line or some other polymer would be
> stronger and less effected by humidity than horsehair.>>
>
> Because it is a superior product. When cleaned and stored properly it
> literally lasts for years. The horsehair have scales which polymers do not
> allowing much finer material to be removed from the liquid poured through
> them.
>
And, besides, I don't think polymers or monofilament fishing lines had been
invented by the end of the Middle Ages...:P
Balthazar of Blackmoor
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