>>> Ralph Walter <[log in to unmask]> 5/01/00 13:41:01 >>> wrote:

"Don't you get bored being the smart guy all the time?"

Now you mention it, occasionally I wonder whether I should keep my mouth shut.  Those posts don't make it.

"Or do you stay away from the Pinheads when you've gotten through your daily case of Foster's?"

Fosters compares with Budweiser.  Lollywater which tastes like treated effluent.  Don't touch the stuff.  Will go without rather than drink it.

"He says he'll look for 1" (25.2 mm, for the internationalists
among us) welded mesh.  In your opinion, will that do the job, or do I need
to insist on the 3/4"?"

I think 1" will be okay if he can find it.

"I take it the lacing you refer to is some sort of post-manufacture operation to prevent unraveling; can you tell me how it's done?"

Woven stainless steel mesh won't unravel.  It's quite stiff.  The lacing is only where two pieces join.  Take a roll of small diameter stainless steel wire.  Cut a length.  Thread it back and forth through overlapping openings in the mesh.  Like a shoelace or a weaving loom.  Something like that.  Maybe even a Boy Scout lashing.

"We will have some "fabric" netting in relatively accessible parts of the
building, but I want the stainless in two particular locations around cooling
towers and at the top of a tank house which will (God willing) never need to be worked on again, so I don't want to stick the Owner with a maintenance problem on even a 10 or 15 year cycle if it can possibly be avoided."

Sounds like the right choice for me.

david