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- [] Big Secrets - Volume Four []
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- [] Written by => The Wyvern []
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- Preface
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- In volume four we will be talking about various scam type things, currency
- paper and bugs in books.
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- *)> Currency Paper <(*
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- The Treasury Department does not make the paper that is used to print money.
- The paper's maker is contracted out to 2 private companies. Mostly known for
- business stationary. They are Crane Company and Gilbert Paper. The kind of
- currency now used is made by the Treasury Department in conjunction with Crane
- and Co. They have used this type of currency all the way from 1880.
- Officially, the formula on how to make the currency paper is top secret. In
- fact, however there is very little that is not known about the paper.. You
- probably know a lot about it. Since 1880 there have been counterfeits trying
- to make perfect copies, some have had a little success others have had none.
- Here's what is known about it: the paper is 75% cotton and 25% linen. The red
- and blue fibers are pure silk. Here are the hidden features of U.S. Currency:
-
- [1] The paper fluoresces under an ultraviolet light.
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- [2] The ink is magnetic - not enuf to be noticed with a regular magnet but can
- be found with the uses of special machines.
-
- [3] The paper contains small invisible holes and under a microscope little
- points of light shine thru.
-
- This is the funny part, money was once made with used clothing! (uk!) Crane
- would go purchase some old cotton shirts, hired people to pick off the buttons
- and to bleach the cotton fabric white. Today they use small patches of fabric
- that Crane purchases from textile companies.
-
- The first step is they convert the fabric into pulp. The cuttings of cotton
- linen are mixed with water - and beaten in mashed in large machines. In a few
- hours they have nice pulp sheets.
-
- The blue and red fibers are now added. Then the pulp is poured into some kind
- of molds. The paper molds I have seen usually consist of a fine wooden frame
- and a fine wire mesh bottom. The are a little larger then the sheets to allow
- for shrinkage. They must spread the pulp evenly inside the mold and then after
- the product is a slip of paper about .0042 to .0045 inches thick.
-
- Excess water drips thru the wire mesh which leaves a newly formed sheet in the
- mold. The damp sheets are then probably transferred to wool mats or felts.
- The sheets and felts are then mashed together to get rid of all that other
- excess water.
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- Then the paper is dried in paper lofts and the drier they are the stronger they
- are.
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- Then the paper is sized which makes it so the ink cant be smeared all over the
- place. The type used is glue! But glue is really a sizing gel made by boiling
- hoofs and ears and stuff of all the dead live stock. So they take it and press
- it onto the bill.
-
- The finished sheets usually measure 53.5 by 63.0 centimeters - just enuf for 32
- bills, eight down and four across.
-
- It is still very hard to counterfeit you must get the machines and be very
- exact.
-
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- *)> A Few Scams <(*
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- 2 for 1: At a movie theater try ripping in half one of the tickets and giving
- one to you and the other to whomever you're with, then just pass by pretending
- its a stub by just waving in their face.
-
- Parking meters: Try tightening the screws on the dials of the meters, it makes
- them go slower.
-
- Cracked: If you ever get a cracked window on your car or whatever you drive
- like in front or on the sides try to find a truck with a heavy load as gravel
- or something, get the name, license, and company and report it to your
- insurance agency..they cover it.
-
- Charge-a-phone: Take a hex wrench and remove the screw in the middle of the
- phone for an extension.
-
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- *)> Bugs in Books <(*
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- The 3-M Corp has made a little metal strip that they now sell to stores and
- book manufacturers. What it consists of is the strip is placed far in the
- binding of the book and a machine is stuck by the door of the store, so when
- you walk out it sets off an alarm unless it has been disabled or taken out.
- They put it in the binding and most book buyers wonder why the hell it's there
- and why there book is hard to keep to a page and it always closes..these bugs
- are used on best selling books, books by the front door of the store and very
- popular books. A lot of places have stopped using them because of all the
- trouble they are..people come in the stores complaining and stuff...but all in
- all there is one more safety gadget book stores have added.
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