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Thread Author: sherlock47 Replies: 13
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 Wed 26 Apr 17 12:55 
 You learn something new every day! - sherlock47
mentalfloss.com/article/85279/secret-floppy-paper

Watch to the end - the bit about toilet paper.



Most of us intuitively understand this, but it still interesting to see it so well demonstrated.
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 Wed 26 Apr 17 13:09 
 You learn something new every day! - No FM2R
>>Most of us intuitively understand this

I didn't, and thanks for the video. I enjoyed it and am now wading through his other stuff.
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 Wed 26 Apr 17 13:31 
 You learn something new every day! - BiggerBadderDave
I discovered the isotropic/anistropic theory about 10 years ago when we got hamsters. I used to tear up tissues to make their bedding. In one direction you got long strips. In the other direction you got a mess.

I like this guy.
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 Wed 26 Apr 17 18:07 
 You learn something new every day! - Cliff Pope
It's the same with newspapers. A broadsheet will tear into strips running down the page, but a small weekend supplement or a tabloid will only tear across the page.
The Daily Telegraph remains the only one now suited to lighting fires.
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 Wed 26 Apr 17 20:14 
 You learn something new every day! - sherlock47
>>>I discovered the isotropic/anistropic theory about 10 years ago when we got hamsters.<<

I am disappointed with your clarification. I expected that you would find it easier to tear it down the line of the vertebrae rather than across the body. :)

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 Wed 26 Apr 17 20:35 
 You learn something new every day! - Zero
in the old days (the 70s) copier paper came in wrappers with arrows printed on it, you had the load the XeroX with the paper the correct way up and round.
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 Wed 26 Apr 17 20:42 
 You learn something new every day! - No FM2R
That's right, and I always wondered why.

Jeez, I worked in the paper industry, you'd think I'd know that wouldn't you.
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 Thu 27 Apr 17 09:16 
 You learn something new every day! - Cliff Pope
Didn't you ever want to try it the other way round just to see what happened?

I remember an oven that had a tray marked "Front" on one edge. It was a plain metal rectangular tray, absolutely identical either way round, apart from the embossed writing.
Needless to say it's cooking properties were unaffected by its orientation.
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 Thu 27 Apr 17 09:22 
 You learn something new every day! - Zero
>> Didn't you ever want to try it the other way round just to see what
>> happened?

yeah, paper jams mostly. Did you know paper has memory? Even cut sheets have a propensity to curl months after they left the huge roll they were made from. Less so these days tho.


I also remember one cooker that had an over tray with "front" on it. Just for a kick I put it in the wrong way round, and then spent hours trying to get the jammed tray out.


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 Thu 27 Apr 17 09:42 
 You learn something new every day! - commerdriver
>> yeah, paper jams mostly.
>>
Maybe I will regret staying this, I know we print less than we used to in most offices but paper jams don't seem to happen as much these day.
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 Thu 27 Apr 17 10:00 
 You learn something new every day! - VxFan
>> Maybe I will regret staying this, I know we print less than we used to
>> in most offices but paper jams don't seem to happen as much these day.

One of our offices (well portakabin) always had problems with the printer. Every couple of days we had to turn the paper over in the tray because the damp atmosphere kept curling it upwards. The only way to keep it flat was to keep turning it over.

Getting back to tearing things, we've got a large roll of bubble wrap, and it will tear easily into strips in one direction, but not another. Almost like it has a grain.
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 Thu 27 Apr 17 14:43 
 You learn something new every day! - Zero
>> >> yeah, paper jams mostly.
>> >>
>> Maybe I will regret staying this, I know we print less than we used to
>> in most offices but paper jams don't seem to happen as much these day.
The paper path is much much much shorter and much less complicated these days. Paper has changed as well

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 Thu 27 Apr 17 19:23 
 You learn something new every day! - Fullchat
Well I really impressed colleagues in the office today recreating that one - not! :)
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 Thu 27 Apr 17 19:32 
 You learn something new every day! - Bromptonaut
Used paper either at work or at home very recently that has a 'this way up' arrow on the wrapper.

The charitable sector tends to use second hand copiers so perhaps we've yet to benefit from shorter paper paths. If the one on my floor, a Ricoh, stops there are about five places where paper will need to be removed. Previous one ALWAYS jammed with first print of day.

Guess who's usually first into the office?
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