Byard, you could get 9,000 yds of the stuff and see how many grams it weighed...or just wight a shorter amount and extrapolate!!
Mark Delaney --- Byard Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >It actually gets a bit more complicated than even > that...saince the > >diffrenet materials have different densities, > denier, which is based > >on mass per 9000 meter of fiber, is close but not > exactly the same. > >For example, for a series of 50 denier gel spun > polethylene (density > >approximately 0.95 g/mL) would be the thickest, > followed by nylon 6,6 > >(density = 1.14 g/mL), then silk (density - 12.5 > -1.34 g/mL), then > >polyester PET type, polyethylene terephthalate, > density - 1.37 g/mL) > >with the thinnest being Kevlar (density = 1.44 - > 1.49 g/mL). this is > >ignoring any diffrences in how the strands of the > fibers arre twisted > >together. If comparing a single fiber, a gel spun > polyethylene fiber > >of the same denier as a Kevlar fiber would be about > 1.55 times as > >thick. another words, denier sizing is an > improvement, but really > >should only be used to compare threads made of the > same base material. > > that or you can use the densities listed above to > figure it > >out...more apples and oranges...my personal > prefference would be for a > >and average thread diameter rating, but I doubt > that will ever happen. > > Anyway, I usdually don't need anything beneath > about 140 denier... > > > >Mark Delaney > > > > Excellent info Mark!! Thanks for thoroughly > confusing the topic...;^) > So what denier is Ultra Wire brassie size? > > ...byard > -- > > Byard Miller > Line's End Inc <http://www.linesend.com> > Virtual Flybox <http://www.virtualflybox.com> > ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
