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[Tug]

Why, when a toilet roll is perforated all accross the roll does it tear lengthways when you snatch a run to catch a sneeze?

Is there a technical explanation,  Tug with a very sn...y nose

[JayDee]

Tug,
Because the "Grain" of the paper runs from end to end.
Look at the paper very closely and you will see the fibres are twisted together and are running ( with your nose! ) from end to end.
There are enough fibres in between the perforations to cause the paper to tear along its length !.
John.

[Youngat65]

These problems never occured when we used to tear up old newspaper and put a string through one corner and hang it up   :-\ :-\
                                                                                                                        cheers
                                                                                                                             Bob B

[ambernblu]

by: Youngat65
These problems never occured when we used to tear up old newspaper and put a string through one corner and hang it up

.... Quite right Bob, I remember it well.... in the outside loo (Brrrrrrrrrr!!  )

[cbr900]

Or an old phone book hung on a nail, oh those cool breezes under the door on the old outhouse...


Roy

[grasshopper]

Phone books were alright, it's when my gran used to use the pages from glossy catalogues.
more of a spreader than an absorbent sheet..... but at least you didn't newsprint on your toosh like we did at Aunty Nells, she always used the tabloids, said that's all they were good for...

[MikeK]

We always used the Radio Times carefully quartered. It used to take ages to read an interesting article when it was fragmented through the sheaf ! That was in summer of course, that nettie down the yard wasn't the place to hang around in winter !!
Ah memories  ::) ::)

MikeK

[Malc Reade]

I worked on the design for a new tissue mill once, at Disley near Stockport, and then helped to commission it.  The machine is about a hundred yards long and is made of stainless steel.  The pulp is sprayed on to a continuous fine mesh belt abot 15 feet wide and the machine can make a roll of bog paper the same width and 10 feet in diameter in minutes!  The rolls are then sent somewhere else for perforating and converting in to the rolls that we buy in the shops.

I think that the fibres align themselves as they are sprayed on to the belt, along the length of the roll, as indicated in previous posts.

Regards,

Malc

[Tug]

I see,

So Malc. Its your fault   

[Malc Reade]

Tug

I get the blame for everything on this Forum. 

Regards, Malc

[Red_Hamish]

Hello all, it is a very funny old world is it not? Whereby we live in centrally heated houses and the first thing I do when going to contemplate life in the en-suite is open the window wide to appreciate the uninterrupted seaview, no matter what the weather 

just a contemplative note 

cheers

Jim

[grasshopper]

Hamish,

what a load of tosh ! - you have to open the window, otherwise you end up percolating the product of your contemplation.