JCMARTIN43_at_aol.com wrote: > Got a question: why are we all so surprised and so concerned that a solid rubber product which we stretch onto stiff flanges, leave out for extended periods in hot sunlight, and expose regularly to salt water --- for most of us --- shows some signs of surface checking or deterioration after a few years' use? We all buy rubber tires for our cars, and, in a few years, note that the tread is worn down, and that, if we haven't regularly used 303 or similar products on the sidewalls, see surface deterioration, but we're not up in arms with Mr. Firestone. Yeah, but when my tires quit, they had each been pounded with one quarter the weight of my car for 65,000 km over seven years at 100 kph. They hadn't failed; I just didn't trust the amount of tread left. I think the two or three year life expectancy of hatch covers is pathetic. I can't imagine why they can't get a better material. Mike *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sat Jul 29 2000 - 06:16:40 PDT
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