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| 243265 | 2004-06-14 01:04:00 | > Also I adopted the principle that if a little graphite was good, then a lot of graphite would be great. That is my theory about chocolate. ;-) :D |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 243266 | 2004-06-15 01:04:00 | > > An artists supplies shop should have a very soft (BBB > or so) graphite pencil. A sudden thought. After a lie-down to recover, here it is: What say I scrape some soot off the fireplace and use that, or better still rub the underside of the keypad inside the chimney? Lots of carbon there. I know the molecule lattice is a bit different but hey! it's lateral thinking and I don't have to even leave the house. Not sure about my wife's view - I'll wait till she's gone out. Waddaya reckon? ;) |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 243267 | 2004-06-15 02:03:00 | The soot is probably better reserved for the medicinal uses (www.ibiblio.org). A cure for any malady ... It's a complex mixture of amorphous carbon and distilled products of the partially burned fuel ... it is usually fairly acidic. You would probably do better with chocolate. :D I still feel a real graphite pencil like the old Black Beauty pencil (remember them?) would be best,and a natural graphite stick the ideal. That doesn't spill or spread anywhere except where it'swanted. The clay in "manufactured" graded pencils might be a problem. This article about pencils (drawsketch.about.com) is quite informative. Graphite sticks and pencils are available in NZ ... here's one supplier (www.draw-art.co.nz). |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 243268 | 2004-06-15 02:50:00 | Well Graham, I don't quite know what to say. Thankyou very much is a good start. I mistakenly thought graphite pencils were the same as charcoal sticks used for drawing. Very informative. |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 243269 | 2004-06-15 05:19:00 | > I mistakenly thought graphite pencils were the same > as charcoal sticks used for drawing. That's the problem with higher education Winston, it leads you down varied and wondrous paths of learning, but doesn't think to pause outside the gate labelled "Graphite Pencils & Portable Phone Keypads" hence your present surfeit of graphite and distinct lack of pencil. So you see Virginia, there is a another dark and secretive world outside of Law. Cheers Billy 8-{) :| |
Billy T (70) | ||
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