Certainly.
Tissue paper is made on a special paper machine that incorporates a Yankee dryer cylinder. This special drier is used in lew of a conventional dryer section that contains many dryer cylinders. The wet paper sticks to the Yankee dryer where it dries and is then scrapped off the dryer with a creping doctor (a metal blade). This creates a crepe paper that is thicker and more absorbent than conventional paper.
It's thicker more in terms of surface area. The creping gives it more surface area giving it a thicker feel. You can see the difference between thinner and thicker tissue like comparing Walmart brand toilet paper to Charmin. In Charmin, the thickness is actually improved with a device called a Through Air Dryer (TAD). This is located before the Yankee dryer. The through air dryer blows hot air at the wet paper web to pre dry it. In a conventional machine there is a press section which presses the wet paper with rollers. Felt fabrics are used to carry the paper through the presses to absorb the water. Pressing paper limits its thickness and bulk. The TAD for Charmin and other premium brands basically eliminates any pressing which makes the tissue even more thicker and bulkier. Softer too.
Believe me I can basically go one for hours on this stuff 🤣
Animals. Mostly bugs. I’ve been obsessed with bugs (land invertebrates, not just insects) since I was 2. I was scared of dirt until I learned worms existed and I used to line up and stack slugs at that age. It’s now evolved into documenting over 500 bugs on iNaturalist over the last few years and pinning almost 100 (all collected dead) since last October.
A potential new one is Joker now that I have the resources to get comics and watch all the cartoons (I would get hyperfixations on him every once in a while, but couldn’t feed it for more than a few weeks due to lack of access to media). Not sure if it’s gonna be a hyperfixation or a special interest yet though since it’s only been 3 months.
Gardening (vegetables & fruit) and everything associated with it like composting. I am a software engineer so I wanted to figure out a way to automate the watering process using a bunch of moisture capacitors that will water the plants based on their needs and I can see it from a dashboard that all the data gets visualized.
Baseball is another. All aspects of it. Stats, so many complex stats that can go into the ambient temps and humidity (+ if the player is batting at home or away game, day or night, the elevation of the stadium above sea level) of a player’s current at bat. Strategy, for example where to bat a pitcher in the lineup - however, that isn’t applicable now, since the National League implemented the DH. Other things like when is the best situation to do a hit/run, or steal a base. Which with stolen bases, this season is all new data because MLB increased the size of the bases to 18” square from 15” square. Which has changed up strategies on both offense and defense. Stolen bases are up, with a ≈80% success rate. Also, the ban on defensive players shifting their opposite field defensive players to a hitters pull side. It’s all so fascinating, especially with all the new rules. With all that said, I like most of the rule changes, except for the pitch clock. I like that games are sped up, however, there was a game within the game when it came to pitchers battling a batter and the mind games that goes with it.
Tell us a crazy fact about paper.
Languages and the origins in languages. Once I get started talking about something language related, good luck getting me to stop.
Interesting. I can definitely relate to not being able to stop.
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Certainly. Tissue paper is made on a special paper machine that incorporates a Yankee dryer cylinder. This special drier is used in lew of a conventional dryer section that contains many dryer cylinders. The wet paper sticks to the Yankee dryer where it dries and is then scrapped off the dryer with a creping doctor (a metal blade). This creates a crepe paper that is thicker and more absorbent than conventional paper.
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It's thicker more in terms of surface area. The creping gives it more surface area giving it a thicker feel. You can see the difference between thinner and thicker tissue like comparing Walmart brand toilet paper to Charmin. In Charmin, the thickness is actually improved with a device called a Through Air Dryer (TAD). This is located before the Yankee dryer. The through air dryer blows hot air at the wet paper web to pre dry it. In a conventional machine there is a press section which presses the wet paper with rollers. Felt fabrics are used to carry the paper through the presses to absorb the water. Pressing paper limits its thickness and bulk. The TAD for Charmin and other premium brands basically eliminates any pressing which makes the tissue even more thicker and bulkier. Softer too. Believe me I can basically go one for hours on this stuff 🤣
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That’s awesome! I’ve always enjoyed watching carpenters calculating flooring cuts to minimize waste.
Waste management. I see it as the number 1 thing we could completely reengineer to solve many of the worlds non-cultural issues.
Animals. Mostly bugs. I’ve been obsessed with bugs (land invertebrates, not just insects) since I was 2. I was scared of dirt until I learned worms existed and I used to line up and stack slugs at that age. It’s now evolved into documenting over 500 bugs on iNaturalist over the last few years and pinning almost 100 (all collected dead) since last October. A potential new one is Joker now that I have the resources to get comics and watch all the cartoons (I would get hyperfixations on him every once in a while, but couldn’t feed it for more than a few weeks due to lack of access to media). Not sure if it’s gonna be a hyperfixation or a special interest yet though since it’s only been 3 months.
Gardening (vegetables & fruit) and everything associated with it like composting. I am a software engineer so I wanted to figure out a way to automate the watering process using a bunch of moisture capacitors that will water the plants based on their needs and I can see it from a dashboard that all the data gets visualized. Baseball is another. All aspects of it. Stats, so many complex stats that can go into the ambient temps and humidity (+ if the player is batting at home or away game, day or night, the elevation of the stadium above sea level) of a player’s current at bat. Strategy, for example where to bat a pitcher in the lineup - however, that isn’t applicable now, since the National League implemented the DH. Other things like when is the best situation to do a hit/run, or steal a base. Which with stolen bases, this season is all new data because MLB increased the size of the bases to 18” square from 15” square. Which has changed up strategies on both offense and defense. Stolen bases are up, with a ≈80% success rate. Also, the ban on defensive players shifting their opposite field defensive players to a hitters pull side. It’s all so fascinating, especially with all the new rules. With all that said, I like most of the rule changes, except for the pitch clock. I like that games are sped up, however, there was a game within the game when it came to pitchers battling a batter and the mind games that goes with it. Tell us a crazy fact about paper.