At 17:17 -0500 N. hemisphere time on 010112 Dee Dee Williams sent:
> >> Any fleece at all will break if pulled hard enough.<<
>And that's not a break. That's fiber abuse and someone should turn that
>person in to the fiber police. If tugging gently, or snapping the lock,
>causes it to pull apart, tear apart, or fall apart, that is a break.
Sorry, not a break as I defined it, and I defined it for the purpose
of my message. That is just wool that is weaker than you expected it
to be.
>
>>>The point is that each fiber will break 'on its own' at the place
>where that fiber yields. <<
>At some point in time, any fiber will break, if tugged beyond its stress,
>or 'breaking' point, or pulled hard enough. That's not a break or fault in
>the fleece. Incorrect technique is being used to test for wool break.
Please do read my quote again. It breaks where it breaks. That's a
fact. I'm not discussing causes.
> >>It the two locks don't have an almost even breaking boundary, then that
>is just fibers breaking anywhere. <<
>If a judgement is made that distributed breaking (which still sounds
>suspiciously like wool break) is occurring in a fleece, and that decision
>is based on the perception that it occurs on different time lines, than
>each and every lock will need to be examined. It's a rare fleece that will
>have the same fiber length all over. Short locks are going to break at a
>different spot than longer ones.
You are not getting the point. A 'break' is a distinct weakness at
one place in *all* the fibers in a fleece. It happens all over the
sheep at the same time, and thus it appears in all the fibers at the
same place. It is not what you call weak fiber.
>It doesn't matter what language is used to describe it--if wool tears,
>rips, or breaks, with gentle tugging, at any point along the staple length,
>it has wool break.
Not correct - sorry - just not standard wool language. Of course you
can use any terms for yourself, but a common set of terms is useful
to communicate in a larger setting. The term 'break' as applied to
wool is as I have used it, and it would be understood by wool
graders, judges, growers almost anywhere where English was spoken.
Ron
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the patron saint of lawyers. Send your lawyer a bill,
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