OIL OR GREASE AND THE TYRES
In places such as garages, where much oil and grease are present, it is difficult to prevent them from getting on to the tyres of vehicles. In the case of solid tyres, the presence of oil is not so serious as with pneumatic tyres, but in all cases oil or grease is best removed from them. Oil or grease should first be scraped off with a blunt knife, and the article washed with warm water and any kind of soap. When dry, a coating of slacked lime mixed to the consistency of thick cream should then be applied to the contaminated surface, and should be allowed to dry, in which process it will absorb what grease may remain in the rubber. This plan has been found very effective, not only for tyres, but for any articles made of rubber that may have come into contact with oil. It is a curious thing that a thick coating of oil is apparently not so harmful to rubber as a mere smear such as that left after wiping with a cloth.
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Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 164, 23 December 1926, Page 7
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184OIL OR GREASE AND THE TYRES Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 164, 23 December 1926, Page 7
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