[DeTomaso] Teflon Rack & Pinion Bushing?

[Jim Wallace]

All,

I forgot to mention that Saul Rickland helped Bob
Miller invent what is known today as Rulon.

Jim
--- Jim Wallace <pantera_4220 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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> 
> 
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