Brush drying competition

That link is incorrect as it was always taught, at least here, that mold is a fungus and you mould bullets, metal, soap, etc. Verbiage with the "u". It is only recently that grammarists have surrendered to the idiots now running PC education and allowed ignorance to thrive by allowing people to spell however they "feel" thereby moulding idiots.
 
That link is incorrect as it was always taught, at least here, that mold is a fungus and you mould bullets, metal, soap, etc. Verbiage with the "u". It is only recently that grammarists have surrendered to the idiots now running PC education and allowed ignorance to thrive by allowing people to spell however they "feel" thereby moulding idiots.
Any (non-US) links to substantiate that claim? I'll stick with "mould" until then.
Here's Wikipedia:
Wikipedia said:
A mold (US) or mould (UK/NZ/AU/ZA/IN/CA/IE) is a fungus that ...
Shakespeare said:
He lives upon mouldy stew'd prunes and dried cakes.
Henry IV, Part 2
 
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56 hours, Zenith 24 mm boar is finally dry, then in true forum style to complicate things I gave it an hour in the sun, result was an extra dry brush, but back on my desk it seemed to draw moisture from the air because after an hour scale showed a step back from extra dry to dry. Enough is enough, back to shaving again :)
 
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That's very interesting. I never thought about my boar brushes soaking water from the humid bathroom air in their bristles. They probably do. I remember a chap keeping his large brush collection in his bedroom instead of the bathroom. Now I wonder if this was his reasoning behind it.
 
I'm currently doing the same procedure for two boar brushes - a Semogue 620 (quite small - I call it piglet) and an Omega 49 (the big boar). Quite interesting so far - looking at the (combined) charts so far, the results won't be what I expected.
Temperature and humidity are the same as the last experiment - 25 degrees and normal :D
I forgot to publish the results of the experiment:
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Both boars dried at pretty much exactly the same rate, somewhere between the synthetic and the badger.
I now have more accurate scales (0.01g) and I can record temperature and humidity.
An early result is that other synthetics dry much quicker than the MÜHLE.
I'm planning to record more drying times at different temperatures and humidity and with the brush being fairly dry or quite wet to start with. I will report back in a year or two - longer if anyone donates an unloved or even shedding badger or horse. :p
 
I forgot to publish the results of the experiment:
BadgerSynthBoarsDrying.png


Both boars dried at pretty much exactly the same rate, somewhere between the synthetic and the badger.
I now have more accurate scales (0.01g) and I can record temperature and humidity.
An early result is that other synthetics dry much quicker than the MÜHLE.
I'm planning to record more drying times at different temperatures and humidity and with the brush being fairly dry or quite wet to start with. I will report back in a year or two - longer if anyone donates an unloved or even shedding badger or horse. :p
Excellent thread, just a sec while I hang my anorak up.
Are you hanging the brushes to dry or standing them up?
Maybe do both with the same brush.
 
Excellent thread, just a sec while I hang my anorak up.
Are you hanging the brushes to dry or standing them up?
Maybe do both with the same brush.
I'm standing them up of course.
The hanging/standing experiment has been done. I also only have one stand that will only fit smaller brushes.
Why are they called stands if you hang the brush from them? They should be called brush-gallows.
 
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