Re: NANFA-- Great homemade dip net plans

Sajjad Lateef (sajjad_at_acm.org)
Fri, 11 May 2001 16:26:23 -0500 (CDT)

You may want to reinforce the neck of the net. That's the part
where the hoop is attached to the handle. It's the weakest point of the
net and I have seen many nets break there.

On Fri, 11 May 2001 NATURNUT_at_aol.com wrote:

> I ended up ordering some free biological supply catalogs via the
> internet. They haven't come yet, so I thought I would do some experimenting.
> As I started playing around with ideas I had, I made one dip net that worked
> great. In my garage I found an old fishing net, the aluminum kind with the 

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Sajjad Lateef   email: sajjad <at> acm.org 
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