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That is one impressive machine Mike - is that you towards the end? I loved all the noise and can just imagine that warm, balmy amosphere that laid a thin film of oil on your skin by the end of the...

Came near to it on a couple of occasions. I ran out of 100% certified cotton wool when nitrating cotton to make collodion once and hastily resorted to what were described as 'photographers pure...

That's a hard one, Mike!

It seems that shrinkage is proportional to the amount of alkali present in the mix, which also introduces the other forms of Cellulose, namely the early (and dangerously...

Wacker might be an idea... I did ask Thomas in a roundabout way about the scales a while ago, but I think he buys them in from another supplier, much as they did back in the day, and I didn't really...

I used to think it was a pour-in or injection mould process, but there seems no way that the logos or the bolsters would have remained in position. Some logos are actually soldered to a pin that is...

Excellent, Mike. You should have produced your own razor-centric article!

In all sincerity,
Neil

Nah, I'd rather make some strops from it - flogging would spoil the leather...

I hate to flog a dead horse, but that has been said time after time in different threads on this forum too... :deadhorse:

Regards,
Neil

Thanks Mike,

That has partially explained a few things to me.

What still mystifies me is what you are calling Activation Energy, and why some examples of celluloid reach the reversal stage...

OK, kemosabe. :)

Thanks, Mike.

What I was getting at was specifics. The article is full of maybes, possiblies, seem to's, and potentials. To much nebulous data, not enough specifics.

As for the camphor, it...

A nice article, but it has large gaps, eg nothing about celluloe acetate, and like thebigspendur said we already know most of this - in particular I have made a lot of posts that cover more, but...