[Tigers] British Rubber

[Tony McNulty]

First reaction is that I'd shy away from plasticizers and "British" rubber. 
The thinking being that Brit rubber is the real stuff from trees and that 
plasticizers have to do with artificial "rubber" from oil wells.  I have a 
colleague in GB who may be familiar with what's real in products from the 
1960's -- I'll pose the question and post the answer.  Good timing, as I 
have a lot of the stuff sitting around in my garage that's in desperate need 
of restoration or replacement.

Tony Mc







----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry" <JCMC2006 at suddenlink.net>
To: "'Tigerman'" <Tigerman67 at hotmail.com>; <Landcmitch at aol.com>; 
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Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 7:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Tigers] British Rubber


> 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
>
> 9473187
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Of
> Tigerman
> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 12:27 PM
> To: Landcmitch at aol.com; tigers at 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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