Date: 19 Dec 2002 06:07:46 -0800 From: ptimlinnopsamo.com (Patrick Timlin) Subject: Re: Tire storage
"Andy Hookins" <andrew.hookinsnopsamamnopsamodata.co.uk> wrote ... > I was told by someone that works for Avon tyres that > they store them upright and that they have people that > whose job it is to spend all day rotating them on the > racks. He went on to explain something along the lines > of: the rubber compounds behave a bit like super- > cooled fluids so that if the tyres are just left, not only > will they go out of shape, but something or other has > a tendency to migrate due to gravity. So presumably > if you stack them on their sides then whatever this > mysterious stuff is that migrates will tend to go to one > side of the tyre. Sounds like some sort of Tire (Tyre for you Andy) urban folklore to me. Along the same lines that glass is a liquid and flows over time (it doesn't). Patrick
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