Description

Rob Allen Premade 16mm Blue Roller Rubbers

Rob Allen Premade 16mm Blue Roller Rubbers made to suit all roller guns (select size in options). Made from genuine Rob Allen 16mm rubber and Dyneema.

High-quality Dyneema bridles and inserts with beads to insure no failures.

The Rob Allen Rubber is manufactured by Dip processing. While costing more, this enables fewer additives to be used, enhancing performance on a gun. The coloured outer layer increase protection from the environment, and the amber inner core is purer for performance.

This rubber has been trailed and tested to provide up to 40% greater strength than other manufacturers.

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Some Interesting facts about Rubber:

It takes several quite distinct steps to make a product out of natural rubber. First, you have to gather your latex from the rubber trees using a traditional process called rubber tapping. That involves making a wide, V-shaped cut in the tree’s bark. As the latex drips out, it’s collected in a cup. The latex from many trees is then filtered, washed, and reacted with acid to make the particles of rubber coagulate (stick together). The rubber made this way is pressed into slabs or sheets and then dried, ready for the next stages of production.

By itself, unprocessed rubber is not all that useful. It tends to be brittle when cold and smelly and sticky when it warms up. Further processes are used to turn it into a much more versatile material. The first one is known as mastication (a word we typically use to describe how animals chew food). Masticating machines “chew up” raw rubber using mechanical rollers and presses to make it softer, easier to work, and more sticky. After the rubber has been masticated, extra chemical ingredients are mixed in to improve its properties (for example, to make it more hard-wearing). Next, the rubber is squashed into shape by rollers (a process called calendaring) or squeezed through specially shaped holes to make hollow tubes (a process known as extrusion). Finally, the rubber is vulcanised (cooked): sulphur is added, and the rubber is heated to about 140°C (280°F).