Gail wrote:
5-6 pounds of fiber to 10 gal of soft, hot (140 degrees) of water,
soak 1 hr.
Can you keep the water that hot throughout the soak? If it's cooling
down at all, you may have grease redepositing on the fiber. And I
personally find I get better results on merino and other fine
Let me know the results, especially if you use unsoftened water from a well
or city water. It makes a difference in grease removal.
Gail White
Hmm... I think I need to find some greasy fleece and run an
experiment.
Shirley
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This is an excellent article. I talked with it's author this weekend and I
was amazed at all the testing she put each carder through. Had them set up
and asked her customers to use them and give their opinions too.
Gail White
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I've had good luck with soaking for 15 minutes, extremely hot temp.,
spin out, soak again, doing this three or four times. Use this technique
with our merino and rambouillet.
No. Haven't felted one yet. I remove the wool, cover it while filling
machine with hot water for the next soak.
I was curious why they didn't even mention Clemes and Clemes in the article.
Do they not make them anymore?
Vicki
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At 06:20 PM 6/4/01 -0400, you wrote:
I was curious why they didn't even mention Clemes and Clemes in the article.
Do they not make them anymore?
CC have gone out of the spinning business a while ago. I think they now
make... well, it was either furniture or surfboards, I can't remember.
-j.
