SMS > wrote in
:

> Tegger wrote:
>
>> Those sites that pull filters apart to see what they look like inside
>> tell you absolutely nothing useful at all.
>
> You're wrong. Those cut-apart evaluations tell you a couple of things.
>
> 1. They tell you which filters to absolutely avoid due to
> exceptionally poor construction.



Exceptionally poor /looking/ consruction you mean, not exceptionally poor
/functioning/ construction.

Until those beauty-contest sites perform some kind of /function/ tests,
they tell you absolutely nothing except the non-news that ugly girls don't
win beauty contests.



>
> 2. They show the amount of filtering area, which can vary widely.



But they can't tell you how /good/ that filter medium is, which is the
critical point.


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Tegger