joehawkins Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 I must be a metro-sexual, because my dainty little fingers won't let me get all the way thru this phonebook. I came home today to find 2 extra Brooklyn yellow pages on the front steps (820 pages each). My wife was all pissed at 1st ("we already have one, they just left the bag out fornt"). Then she says "oh wait, you like to rip them", and looks at me like I just took a deuce on the rug. So I grab one and start to rip it. I get a good initial tear, and keep ripping until I'm about 2 inches from the binding, when things go froggy. I give a mighty pull, but the pages rip lengthwise instead of me tearing all the way thru the book. This happened with the other book too, all of a sudden the tear takes a hard right and I tear a big chunk off, but it finishes lengthwise. Not gripping hard enough, nature of the paper, what's going on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doolash Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 i will tell you whats goin on your a bloody nutter man i got years to go before my girly hands even pick a phone book up full respect to ya Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dude Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 Joe from your post I gather you're ripping them left to right and not top to bottom? If so the tear is probably following the path of least resistance when it hits the binding with the glue and such. Try doing one top to bottom and you should've have much trouble keeping it straight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clay Edgin Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 Sounds like you're breaking the binding and then tearing it? Hard for me to visualize. Is there any way you can post pics? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twig Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 Sounds like you're breaking the binding and then tearing it? ← It sounds the opposite to me, like he's tearing towards the binding, which explains why the tear goes awry, the pages will become much more closely packed towards the binding, and therefore harder to tear. Stick to tearing lengthways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Octogen Posted December 23, 2005 Share Posted December 23, 2005 (edited) I've found that all the phone books here in Australia are far easier to tear length ways because the grain of the paper runs top to bottom. If i tear them across the binding the tear always turns 90 degrees and i end up taking a corner out of the book Edited December 23, 2005 by Octogen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joehawkins Posted December 24, 2005 Author Share Posted December 24, 2005 Yup, I'm tearin towards the binding, but I thought that is the "classic" way to tear. I figure that my grip needs to be tighter towards the end to override the paper's tendency to follow the grain, and rip top to bottom. I will try to get some more and go top to bottom, see how that goes. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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