Klarinet Archive - Posting 000558.txt from 1998/11

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] silver and rubber (was wolf tones)
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:23 -0500

I just wrote something on these lines myself. There is (or has been) also
a process known as "cold vulcanisation", using a solution of a sulphur
chloride in carbon disulphide. Apparently, this only works for thin films.
Roger Shilcock

On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Doug Sears wrote:

> Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 14:59:38 -0800
> From: Doug Sears <dsears@-----.org>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] silver and rubber (was wolf tones)
>
> Chuck Trimble CPA <trimble@-----.net> wrote:
>
> >rubber clarinets are not vulcanized rubber. they were prevalent before
> >vulcanization was invented.
>
> Vulcanization was invented in 1839 by Charles Goodyear.
>
> Here's a quote from some online encyclopedia:
>
> As much as 47 parts of sulfur can be combined with
> 100 parts of rubber, resulting in a compound containing 32
> percent sulfur. Such a product is hard and tough, and is
> known as ebonite because of its resemblances to ebony wood.
> It is also called vulcanite or hard rubber. The term hard
> rubber is generally applied to vulcanites of rubber and
> sulfur containing more than 20 percent of combined sulfur.
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