[DeTomaso] Teflon Rack & Pinion Bushing?

Jim Wallace pantera_4220 at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 13 14:28:23 EDT 2007


all,

But Bob "RULON" Miller perfected the teflon for plane
bearing application (as wellas many others) down in
Rhode Island.  He cross linked telfon (which was
reportedly so slippery nothing would stick to it) with
glass and other compounds to give it stability and
functionality.  He presented this to Dupont and they
told him to go fly a kite.....he later introduced the
product to the public and was sued by Teflon (because
his name Rulon was to close to Teflon) and Teflon lost
the suit.  He improved the application of teflon into
a whole new industry.....and made quite a profit in
the mean time.

Teflon itself was useless as a bearing because it
would deform under any type of load.

Jim
 
--- Garth Rodericks <garth_rodericks at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Teflon was discovered/invented in 1939 and first
> marketed in 1945, so it's quite possible that the
> original Rack and Pinion Bushing was made of some
> type of Teflon material.
>    
>   Teflon ® - Roy Plunkett 
>   PTFE, or polytetrafluoroethylene, was discovered
> on April 6, 1938 by Dr. Roy Plunkett at the DuPont
> research laboratories (Jackson Laboratory in New
> Jersey). Plunkett was working with gases related to
> Freon® refrigerants when upon checking a frozen,
> compressed sample of tetrafluoroethylene, he and his
> associates discovered that the sample had
> polymerized spontaneously into a white, waxy solid
> to form polytetrafluoroethylene or PTFE. 
>    
>   PTFE was first marketed under the DuPont Teflon ®
> trademark in 1945. The molecular weight of Teflon
> can exceed 30,000,000, making it one of the largest
> molecules known. The surface is so slippery,
> virtually nothing sticks to it or is absorbed by it.
> No wonder Teflon was choosen to be used on non-stick
> cooking pans. 
> 
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