Ryan Underwood wrote:
"Ron(UK)" writes:


I used to have a bottle of 'rubber belt rejuvenator', It worked very
well on vcr pinchrollers and the like. The wholesalers stopped selling
it as they said it was classed as hazardous.
At the time my next door neighbour was a chemist, he took a sniff and
pronounced it xylene, Hazardous when inhaled, and disolves many plastics.


Hmm, so "rubber rejuvenator" simply dissolves crap that is making the rubber
surface slick? Or does it react with the rubber in some way to reverse its
drying?

xylene seems to make the surface more 'grabby' it seems to kind of etch
it slightly, it doesn`t work with really hardened rubber like those
Philips pinch rollers.

Ron

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