Charlie,
Many years ago (1970s) A good engineering friend of mine told me that Armor-
All was good for rubber because it replaces "plasticizers" in the rubber.
I have used it for many years on rubber but don't know if I have ever made
rubber soft and pliable again, but it is better than nothing at all.
Jerry Christopherson
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From: tigers-bounces+jcmc2006=suddenlink.net@autox.team.net
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Tigerman
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 12:27 PM
To: Landcmitch@aol.com; tigers@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Tigers] British Rubber
I'm not sure how effective it would be in restoring parts that are already
hardened, but on my motorcycle, there are a couple of rubber grommets that
hold on the side covers, and in order to keep them in decent shape, I use a
silicone based grease. It makes popping those side covers on/off alot
easier. The silicone is suppose to not negatively effect rubber and plastic.
I think I got the idea from my scuba diving gear which uses a food grade
silicone spray and grease. Since I didn't believe I needed food grade, and
the amount of grease sold at a scuba diving store is very small, I looked
for it in autoparts stores. I though I remember having troubling finding a
pure silicone grease that didn't have anything else in it, but I did find
some tubes of it at Napa, but don't remember the exact product name, other
than I think it was a Napa branded product.
Steve
> Does anyone out there have a magic method of softening and preserving
> forty
> year-old English rubber, namely grommets and plugs? Some of mine is
> intact,
> not cracked, but has gotten very hard.
>
> Charlie
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