What nylon eating bacteria is that exactly?
Your wife, mother, sister or girlfriend could SHOW you the effects thereof.
These bacteria are quite polar in their consumption habits. Once an entryway into the nylon substrate is gained, they will eat only in an upward or downward direction.
Many devices have been tried to stop or slow their appitites, but once they have a foothold, about the only thing that will save further destruction of the nylon, is to remove them from the legs.
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