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27th April 2022, 14:28 | #1 |
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Jacking pads now hard plastic?
Just bought a couple of new pads (from DMGRS) but surprised to see they're hard plastic not rubber as they used to be. I've smothered them in silicon but took a job to get them to clamp up - used the jack of course. Hope I'm wrong but I can't see them staying in as long as the OEM rubber which would give a little and mould into a less than perfect hole, if you get my meaning. Is there another source, apart from old ones off eBay, that would be rubber?
Anyone else share my misgivings?
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Jacking pads now hard plastic?
They have never been rubber!!
I think the difference is that now the plastic is moulded in China and that will be inferior to the UK sourced raw materials.
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Ah, well . . . As ever bowing to your superior knowledge might I tentatively suggest that they were somewhat in-between? I can remember years ago there was a trade mag Plastic & Rubber Weekly - no dear nothing to do with Health & Efficiency, that was something entirely different - so the industry was somewhat conjoined if that's the word?
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I used to be a regular reader, I shall investigate the plastic used in the jacking pads when I get chance..
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