We need to get the Vulcans to help us with our rubber. Stat
Materials scientists of Twitter: can someone explain to me why after almost 200 years of vulcanization we still make rubber stuff that turns into a sticky mess after a few years? Is this some kind of skin oil thing that we have no defense against?pic.twitter.com/yKKcXc3DOY
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I have a seething hatred of all consumer products coated with that soft-touch rubber shit. Everyone knows it turns to goo, they're basically guaranteeing obsolescence and not even trying to pretend otherwise.
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SBS and a few other TPEs just naturally degrade when exposed to nonpolar solvents and oils, and they remain cheaper than proper materials (is the tldr)
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Augmenting natural rubber with polymers improves characteristics, but the usual plasticizers are inherently unstable. aka, "why NOS sealed in shrinkwrap headphones from the 60s and 70s have degraded to unsalvageable" aka "why space age materials didn't outlast the space age"
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A collection of Speedos in a museum started to do the same thing. They ran experiments to find the cause: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/speedo-collection-at-powerhouse-museum …
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What is this, and what conditions (heat, solvents, sunscreen, etc) has it been exposed to?
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It's a mouse pad. I've rested my hand on it intermittently for a few years. The corner where I had my hand (and the opposite corner, since I turned it over at some point) were like this.
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that's why I have cloth mousepads now
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Hoy leí en la sección de mantenimiento del manual de una barra de sonido esto y creo que es lo único relevante que he visto en el manual. La goma y el calor no son buenos amigos.pic.twitter.com/HCiRAcni98
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