Re: Rubber

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From	Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
Subject	Re: Rubber
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Date	2025-12-20 20:45 +0000

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On 2025-12-20, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

> On Sat, 12/20/2025 7:32 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>
>> For some reason, I was using at my fifties some boots that were bought 
>> when I was a teenager. Size was correct, soles had their crests and valleys, 
>> not much used, but little actual grip. I finally threw them away.
>> 
>> About then or earlier I bough some good boots for mountain sports. I think
>> I actually used them 4 times over the years, but the last time, the sole 
>> got unglued from the rest of the boot, on both boots, like a gaping mouth,
>> at the start of the trek. The boots were not even ten years old, maybe 6. 
>> The rubber was still soft, but the boots were garbage material. Fault of 
>> the glue, or one intermediate layer that decomposed.

Even decent rubber or plastic will depolymerize over longer periods.
I went skiing with a friend; neither of us had been out for some time,
and although I just rented new gear, he still had his 20-year-old
boots.  We got separated on the first run, so I went around and was
on my way down a second time when I saw him walking down the hill
with his skis across his shoulder.  I went over and asked what was
the matter and he pointed at his toes; they were exposed.  The
plastic in his boots had become so brittle that they disintegrated
on his first turn.  I went back up for another run, and sure enough,
just where I was making my first turn, I saw the debris field.
Good for an apres-ski laugh, anyway.

> These things don't happen by accident by the way. It's "designed" to
> fail at four years. Someone is crass enough, to figure out the
> interval at which "consumers will accept a defect".

Back in the '60s I heard someone mention that he had bought Timex
watches for each of his three sons.  All three lasted the 12-month
warranty period, but not one made it to 13 months.  Looks like the
engineers got that one pretty well figured out.

Ah, the joys of planned obsolescence...

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