Tony wrote:
It does constantly surprise me that we seem to have inferior "rubber"
parts
these days. Maybe even the OEM parts are not so great either. Just
yesterday
I was in the local Pep Boys and a guy was looking at some sort of
rubber plug.
He was on a cell phone commenting to someone about how crappy the
rubber was.
He said something like "These #$%^& parts made in India. The rubber
lasts a
few weeks"
This is because rubber isn't rubber anymore. Not genuine rubber-
rubber anyway. The global demand for rubber far exceeds the number of
rubber trees planted.
This manually collected crop cannot meet the demand of 6 billion people.
We're dealing with different synthetic formulations aimed to
replicate, or rather, vaguely approximate real rubber.
I can imagine how much R&D went into the synthetic rubber used in the
India plant for the low-cost Pep Boys parts referenced above. Zip.
Brian in Valley Forge
1963 TR4
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