[rollei_list] Re: Camera Leather

  • From: jon.stanton@xxxxxxxxxxx
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 05:31:31 +0000

vul?can?ite
Pronunciation: (vul'ku-nît"), [key] 
?n. 
a hard, readily cut and polished rubber, obtained by vulcanizing rubber with a 
large amount of sulfur, used in the manufacture of combs, buttons, and for 
electric insulation. Also called ebonite. 

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on 
Infoplease.

Wasn't it Charles Goodyear that discovered the process?   (Science class many 
years ago)


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: David Dodge <dannysoar@xxxxxxx>
> About twenty minutes after I hit "send", the lazy neurons in the bottom 
> of my mind went "Vulcanite! And don't pester us with any more silly 
> requests"  Any way I called it "plastic" and no doubt the PTB of Leica 
> Owners Society will rip off my epalettes (sp?) and break my sword over 
> their knees.  So what is Vulcanite and why did mine all fall off in 
> chunks? 
> David aka dannysoar [thinking of Spock]
> 
> jon.stanton@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> >Vulcanite.......Just think of Spock
> >
> >  
> >
> 
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