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RUBBER

Properties How it's made?

• Water resistant • Sap from Hevea Brasiliensis trees are strained and mixed with Formic Acid
• Very pliable • The resulting sludge is rolled to remove water and left to dry
• Good heat insulator • QC then checks for any Formic Acid or Water residue
• Highly elastic -(sciencechannel.com/howitsmade/)

-(saddlesindia.com)

“The first people to use rubber were the natives of Central America. They made rubber balls
and boots around 1600 BC. Christopher Columbus first witnessed natives in Haiti playing with a

rubber ball in 1495.” -(coruba.co.uk)

2,000,000 years ago – -1839 – American inventor -1879 A.D. – Gustave -1941 to 1945 - Synthetic
Evidence of rubber use Charles Goodyear discovers Bouchardat invented syn- rubber production in the US
how to vulcanize rubber thetic rubber. jumped from 8,000 tonnes
accidentally (Fell on stove) to 820,000 tonnes.

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1. To begin the process I used a dark 3. To obtain a textured look, I
grey primer as I was going for a pressed down sand paper on the
black rubber effect. face of the swatch to try and
acheive the “bumpy” look. After
the final respray the look was
completely masked by the spray
paint.

4. The method that worked the best
was multiple light coats. I would
spray the peice without shaking the
can to obtain a blobby sort of
2. Once dried I proceeded to layer effect. I buit on this look multiple
the peice twice with black spray times until I was satisfied with the
paint.
finish.