Replaced droplinks today

munroman · 6th April 2019, 09:38

When we started to remodel our garden, we found that the previous owner had buried bits of his old Morris Minor all over the garden.

I needed a gaiter for a shock absorber on my Volvo, one of the gaiters off the Minor steering rack did the job just fine, it was still unperished despite being at least 40 years old and buried for goodness knows how long.

(As someone with a little knowledge of plastic and rubber, I would guess that fillers like talc and chalk are being used to excess in the plastic gaiters, this saves money, but will weaken the plastic, and especially, it will make it brittle, which will cause the cracking failures to happen quickly)

In China it is common practice for a supplier to submit great quality samples, but they can't make money on them, the ones supplied for production are usually inferior, like the case hardened screws which turned out to have been painted black, luckily I had been warned of these practices, so caught 50,000 before they caused chaos.

6th April 2019, 09:38	#9
munroman Loves to post Rover 75 Tourer Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Glasgow Posts: 409 Thanks: 365 Thanked 83 Times in 62 Posts	When we started to remodel our garden, we found that the previous owner had buried bits of his old Morris Minor all over the garden. I needed a gaiter for a shock absorber on my Volvo, one of the gaiters off the Minor steering rack did the job just fine, it was still unperished despite being at least 40 years old and buried for goodness knows how long. (As someone with a little knowledge of plastic and rubber, I would guess that fillers like talc and chalk are being used to excess in the plastic gaiters, this saves money, but will weaken the plastic, and especially, it will make it brittle, which will cause the cracking failures to happen quickly) In China it is common practice for a supplier to submit great quality samples, but they can't make money on them, the ones supplied for production are usually inferior, like the case hardened screws which turned out to have been painted black, luckily I had been warned of these practices, so caught 50,000 before they caused chaos.