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Post by ratscabies on Apr 7, 2020 1:14:28 GMT -4
If anyone is making masks, I've found that plastic coated speaker wire works well for the nose piece. The world has gone to bluetooth so you may know an audiophile who has excess they'd be willing to donate. Is the wire in the plastic stranded, or solid core? I could see solid working, but I have never seen stranded wire that would stay bent enough for the bridge of my nose. I have a mask-making wife, and a bunch of speaker cord around, so I would love to be surprised! |
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Post by tazmin on Apr 7, 2020 3:02:16 GMT -4
Ratscabies, I was perusing the plethora of face masks listed on Etsy and found someone who has listed a 50-piece bundle of nose wires for mask making. Take a look and see if you can get some ideas from this listing.  |
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Post by ratscabies on Apr 7, 2020 9:08:18 GMT -4
Ratscabies, I was perusing the plethora of face masks listed on Etsy and found someone who has listed a 50-piece bundle of nose wires for mask making. Take a look and see if you can get some ideas from this listing. Ah ha! I zoomed in on one of the pics of the wire in a bundle. That looks more like very small gauge Romex (like what runs the electricity in your walls) and split into single strands-Romex usually has 3 or 4 wires in it, depending on voltage). I am not familiar,beyond knowing of its existence, of audio systems like home theater using speaker wire in the walls. But, this could be what we are seeing here. Stranded wire is usually better for something you will move around a lot, like lamp cord, guitar cables, and speaker wire that you just hide behind furniture. It is more flexible, and is designed so that if a strand breaks from too much bending, the electricity can get past the break by jumping to the strand next to it. Solid core is a single, larger piece of copper wrapped in an insulator (rubber or plastic), and it is considerably stiffer for that reason. It bends, but only up to a point. If it gets bent in the same spot enough, the wire inside the insulation will break, and no signal gets through. Or, in the case of a nose shaper in a mask, you are left with it being only as stiff as the rubber/plastic it’s wrapped in. All that said, that’s a pretty good bundle of what you need for a mask for a lousy buck! And that person has the reel of wire that they are stripping, cutting, and bundling. They deserve whatever meager profit they get from that. The likelihood any of us have solid core wire like that laying around is probably slim, unless you are a home theater installer. I have some very light gauge stuff from Radio Shack (RIP!) that I used to used to repair damaged circuit boards in my studio’s mixing console. I would cut a piece about 1/2” long and solder it to bridge places where the copper trace printed on the boards between components got burned or otherwise separated. Thus endeth todays boring dissertation on various forms of wire technology and their uses. Come back tomorrow night. We’re gonna do FRACTIONS! [/Tom Lehrer ref] |
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Post by tabby on Apr 7, 2020 11:29:11 GMT -4
Come back tomorrow night. We’re gonna do FRACTIONS! [/Tom Lehrer ref] You've made my day, rat. "Hooray for new math! New-hoo-hoo math! It won't do you a bit of good to review math. It's so simple, So very simple, That only a child can do it!" |
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Post by mojogirl on Apr 7, 2020 12:54:23 GMT -4
Come back tomorrow night. We’re gonna do FRACTIONS! [/Tom Lehrer ref] You've made my day, rat. "Hooray for new math! New-hoo-hoo math! It won't do you a bit of good to review math. It's so simple, So very simple, That only a child can do it!" I love that song- "It's just like base 10... if you're missing two fingers!" I have the deluxe CD set of all of his songs which includes a lyrics booklet,but that one is my favorite, with National Brotherhood Week being a close second. |
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Post by Carolinian on Apr 7, 2020 14:19:26 GMT -4
It says Radio Shack 2-conductor stranded speaker wire on the label which is why I know what it is. :-) I also found a 10 lb reel of plastic coated stranded copper (1-conductor, I guess) which should be enough to last me until a vaccine is developed. Today I am thankful for my husband's inability to throw anything away.
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Post by ratscabies on Apr 7, 2020 16:38:08 GMT -4
You've made my day, rat. "Hooray for new math! New-hoo-hoo math! It won't do you a bit of good to review math. It's so simple, So very simple, That only a child can do it!" I love that song- "It's just like base 10... if you're missing two fingers!" I have the deluxe CD set of all of his songs which includes a lyrics booklet,but that one is my favorite, with National Brotherhood Week being a close second. As you might expect from my showing off my knowledge of Motley Crue porn in the Politics thread, my Fave Lehrer song is Smut.... It says Radio Shack 2-conductor stranded speaker wire on the label which is why I know what it is. :-) I also found a 10 lb reel of plastic coated stranded copper (1-conductor, I guess) which should be enough to last me until a vaccine is developed. Today I am thankful for my husband's inability to throw anything away. Excellent! My phone zooming on that Etsy photo was NOT hi res! Let me know how the stranded stuff works as a nose shaper. I have a bunch laying around (as you would expect of an audio guy/musician. |
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Post by mojogirl on Jul 28, 2020 15:42:05 GMT -4
My crochet habit picked up after Trump was elected, and since the lockdowns has gone into overdrive. I think it's bringing some small order from chaos. I finished the Rozeta 2019 CAL last month - I started back in November but would not have finished by now normally as I am a slow crocheter! I had ordered the kit in the Twilight colorway. Then I did a baby afghan for a friend who's expecting in September - I used this pattern but did multiple bright colors in rows rather than the grey shown. My daughter (who I taught to crochet when she was in middle school) has completed a small lap afghan since she's been home from school in March, and just finished a crocheted bikini top that she modeled for me this morning and her father is going to haaaaaate, lol. My next goal before school "starts" in September is to teach my youngest son to crochet. I taught his older brother but it didn't stick; but as recounted in the Food topic he is a fairly good chef so at least he has some domestic skills. |
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Post by divasahm on Jul 28, 2020 18:42:49 GMT -4
I'm a Poisoning Pigeons in the Park girl, myself...
Our church called me to request more prayer shawls. Fortunately, I'm cranking them out at a rate of about one a week, and have been since the middle of March. Ds2 will take 10 or 12 in tomorrow...
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Post by seat6 on Jul 29, 2020 14:33:59 GMT -4
I tried to hand crochet a cat bed, but I'm not happy with it so I keep on ripping it out. It's supposed to look like this. I do needlework and I've been doing a stitch-a-long about four years after it was initially published. I started it in Jan. 2018 and did all the border and the first month. Since the shutdown I have done worked on it steadily and I am about to finish Nov. I love all the little critters! November PeacockI'm doing all the months in blocks: January February March April May June July August September October November December Each block has a border and then there is a larger floral border that goes all the way around. I can't find a picture of a completed one like mine that isn't on FaceBook, but you will have to take my word for it that it is really pretty. |
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