All this talk about various adhesives and materials has prompted me to chip in.
There was a time when real nauga hides were used. It was extremely durable with no adverse effect on humans. It was soft and pliable, had a nice scent and felt warm like leather. It's popularity skyrocketed and the demand for it soared. (soaring related) The nauga carcasses were found to be tasty and nutritious and this benefited the poor who were habitually protein deficient in their diets. Then the animal rights activists in South America took issue with the increased slaughtering of the cuddly, native nauga because it was feared it would go the route of the American bison. Attempts to dissuade the activists took place when nauga farms were developed in secret locations and lookouts maintained to look for snooping activists.The farmed nauga were force fed with all kinds of hormones and other various chemicals to stimulate mating, quick maturity of the offspring. There was a virtually unlimited supply of nauga hides and no one was the wiser. This worked pretty well until sleazy promoters with an eye to making a buck, with chemical engineers on the staffs, researched and developed a fabric that simulated genuine, nauga hides and could be sold wholesale for less than 1/3 of the real nauga hides. They named the product Naugahyde. Always with an eye for a better bottom line, resourceful manufacturers quit buying nauga hides and began using Naugahyde. The public couldn't spell any better then than they do now, didn't know what should or shouldn't be capitalized and assumed what they were buying as Naugahyde was the same as the old favorite nauga hide. With the lowered retail price, this rapidly took the fancy of the public. The nauga industry in South America failed. Naugas, both native and the ones that got loose from the farms, were no longer slaughtered, were reproducing like crazy and running around everywhere, chewing up the crops and generally causing economic mayhem. The farmed ones generated adverse health effects to those eating that meat, causing accelerated growth among children and sexual maturity by age 8 or 9, contributing to a population explosion. Not being able to tell the difference between farmed or native naugas, no one would any longer eat nauga meat. The lack of protein in diets was again very detrimental to the poor. In any event, if you now buy something said to be nauga hide, don't be fooled. It's Naugahyde! Don't ask me how I know all this. I'm an old buzzard and remember lots of things for which I can't remember the source. I even once had a great big 3 piece green nauga hide davenport. . .or was it Naugahyde? I forget things. RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
