[TheForge] Re: Rope Making List?

[Ries Niemi]

On Thursday, March 25, 2004, at 02:27 PM, Dave Brown wrote:

> At 03:30 PM 3/25/04 -0600, you wrote:
>
>> Dave,
>> Just wonder how it works with the yahoo rope making list.  I know 
>> Mike Speranza uses AOL.  There have to be a thousands  of 
>> subscription email interest groups that will have members canceling 
>> out of AOL if they don't get their bulk filter fixed.
>> Dann
>
>

Is there really an AOL rope making list? Is rope making a hobby? Or a 
profitable home business?
Maybe growing your own vines in the backyard, then making the rope in 
your garage?

I have visited the rope making sheds in Barcelona Spain, where they 
twisted rope for ships in rooms 400 feet long. I would love to see 
modern ropemaking workshops.

I am working on a project for my wife, where she is having 100% 
stainless steel rope made, from specially softened stainless fibers. 
The company that is making it for her, Baekert, is Belgian conglomerate 
with over a hundred factories around the world. It is taking the 
collaboration of 3 of their factories to make this rope, the final 
twisting being done  on machines that normally make wire rope for the 
"belts" on steel belted radial tires.

Or were you just joking about how many internet special interest groups 
there were, and used rope making as an example of how oddball they can 
get?

ries