On 11/24/2015 4:56 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> Helpful person wrote:
>> notbob wrote:
>>> I'm jonesing fer some potstickers and plan to make my own from
>>> scratch. This includes the dough, which I plan to roll out the
>>> classic way, with a small Asian rolling pin.
>>>
>>> Since I don't wanna spend $10-20 ona stick, I'm gonna make my own pin
>>> outta some hardwood dowls from the hardware store. Here's my
>>> question: What is the best diameter?
>>>
>>> I've seen everything from 3/4" to 1-1/4" dia, usually about 10"-12"
>>> long. Anyone have a recommendations on diameter?
>>>
>>> nb
>>
>> You will probably find dowels are not strong enough and will bend or break when being used.
>
> Hardwood dowels are plenty strong, they are sold in 36" lengths but no
> rolling pin is more than half that length so there'd be no flex
> whatsoever, only problem is a 36" X 1 1/4 hardwood dowel will cost
> more than a rolling pin.... it's really silly to think about making
> ones own wooden rolling pin to save money... quality hardwood rolling
> pins are rather inexpensive:
> https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_s...%2Caps%2C6 77
> Plain hardwood dowels cost more, and you still need to make it into a
> rolling pin.. without access to a wood lathe you'd probably waste the
> first ones:
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...=sr_1_5&sr=8-5
> I'd definitely go for a ready made rolling pin, and they last forever,
> I have a couple from my grandmother, that my mother used, they have to
> have been used for over 100 years... I bet originally they cost less
> than two bits each. With how little ready made rolling pins cost I'd
> never consider making one, not unless I was still at work with access
> to one of the finast experimental machine shops on the planet, with
> all the rare hardwood doweling I could possibly dream about and for
> free, even rare rain forest woods from their cabinet shop, and being
> paid my hourly rate for what's known as a "government job", and I
> could think of lots of better ways to spend my time than making
> sawdust. Anyone think I couldn't fabricate a friggin' rolling pin
> here, but why bother when I could buy one for under ten bucks:
> https://www.bnl.gov/cfs/services.php
> https://www.bnl.gov/cfs/heavymachine.php
> This facilty is located on more than 5,000 acres.
> Working there as a toolmaker for over 25 years I had clearence to
> access every facility, it's huge and much is classified Top Secret,
> it's where the Manhattan Project was instituted:
> https://www.bnl.gov/maps/linkable_fi...ral_campus.pdf
> I worked intimately with many of the planet's top physicists, there
> were many scientists and designers but ultimately it was the
> toolmakers who made the final decision for fabrication, there's a huge
> abyss between theory and actual fabrication... the theorists could
> barely tie their shoelaces, only the toolmakers know how to build
> stuff. No society can exist without toolmakers, so unless the US
> brings back the apprenticeship program for toolmakers the US has maybe
> 10, 15 years to exist because us toolmakers will all be dead... we
> toolmakers don't readily share our knowlege and it's not available in
> any book, because it's mostly an artform like cooking, we are born
> with this innate ability, it cannot be learned from any book. Just
> like the alta kraut toolmakers I covered my work... nien schtealin'
> mit da eigen. Before I give up what I know about making stuff free
> for nothing I'll take it to my grave... and I ain't tawkin' toasters,
> I'm tawkin high energy physics machines, I really know how. The only
> one I trust right now is Trump, I know he's a loud mouth but he knows
> how to get stuff built, he respects toolmakers and that's all I need
> to know.
>
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