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I feel as tho the article ended right when it got to the question at hand.
Tallow in plastics – why? (2016)
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Re: Tallow in plastics – why? (2016)
#32Banana oil is waiting outside. Castrol wishes to be remembered to you. Meanwhile, whales are breathing a sigh of relief
I think they mean feed stock animal fats not whales. When you eat that hamburger there’s a ton of left over animal fats. Given the animal is dead, the worst you could do is not use its remains in the most productive way possible. Otherwise why did it die?
Obviously it wanted to die as profitable a death as possible so there will be an incentive to add more of its brethren in death!
Re: Tallow in plastics – why? (2016)
#33Perhaps the main thing about tallow is that there's a glut of it, likewise lard. People want more and more meat, but want it to be leaner, creating a surplus of tallow. Also, its use in deep fryers, e.g., by the fast food industry, was curtailed when vegetable oil became preferable in the market. A relative of mine worked in a chemical factory in Detroit, that made lubricants for metal working. Many of them were eith…
Isn't Dove a detergent?
Well that's a nice surprise. Thanks for the tip.
Re: Tallow in plastics – why? (2016)
#34Another interesting additive in many plastics is glass fibres or beads, they are often used to strengthen the plastic and give it slightly different mechanical properties. The downside of the glass fillers is that they erode the tools much more quickly (glass is very abrasive), kind of the opposite of Tallow which helps to keep the plastic flowing over the surfaces better. On glass filled parts you will often see a s…
Which is why it's only used in certain parts that would benefit from having glass filling, like tools for instance. You also pay for it anyways; I would be surprised if any of the consumer grade Ryobis from Home Depot had glass fiber reinforced polymer cases, while a Hilti almost surely does if not metallic.
Re: Tallow in plastics – why? (2016)
#35Another interesting additive in many plastics is glass fibres or beads, they are often used to strengthen the plastic and give it slightly different mechanical properties. The downside of the glass fillers is that they erode the tools much more quickly (glass is very abrasive), kind of the opposite of Tallow which helps to keep the plastic flowing over the surfaces better. On glass filled parts you will often see a s…
Do you have an example?
Re: Tallow in plastics – why? (2016)
#36This submission claims that "traditional banknotes which are based on special and expensive paper suffer from poor tear properties and they have limited life", and touts tallow-dependent plastics as a solution. US currency is made of a cotton-linen blend, so (pedantically) it is not paper. Per US Currency Education Program [1], "it would take 4000 double folds, forwards and backwards, to tear a banknote". Is this ins…
> In my wallet I currently have a couple hundred in US currency from years 2003 to 2014
Confusingly enough the year on US Bank Notes is not when they were printed. For example, the current series is "2017A", which started being printed in 2019.
Re: Tallow in plastics – why? (2016)
#37Perhaps the main thing about tallow is that there's a glut of it, likewise lard. People want more and more meat, but want it to be leaner, creating a surplus of tallow. Also, its use in deep fryers, e.g., by the fast food industry, was curtailed when vegetable oil became preferable in the market. A relative of mine worked in a chemical factory in Detroit, that made lubricants for metal working. Many of them were eith…
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Re: Tallow in plastics – why? (2016)
#38Perhaps the main thing about tallow is that there's a glut of it, likewise lard. People want more and more meat, but want it to be leaner, creating a surplus of tallow. Also, its use in deep fryers, e.g., by the fast food industry, was curtailed when vegetable oil became preferable in the market. A relative of mine worked in a chemical factory in Detroit, that made lubricants for metal working. Many of them were eith…
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Re: Tallow in plastics – why? (2016)
#39This submission claims that "traditional banknotes which are based on special and expensive paper suffer from poor tear properties and they have limited life", and touts tallow-dependent plastics as a solution. US currency is made of a cotton-linen blend, so (pedantically) it is not paper. Per US Currency Education Program [1], "it would take 4000 double folds, forwards and backwards, to tear a banknote". Is this ins…
Even more pedantically, paper made from cotton and linen is paper by most definitions. Wood pulp paper is by far the most common these days, but that's surprisingly recent (mid-19th century). Before that it was mostly cotton, linen and hemp.
You can also still buy cotton resume paper, although with how digital things are these days I’m not sure how useful it would be unless you really want that Target job.
Re: Tallow in plastics – why? (2016)
#40Perhaps the main thing about tallow is that there's a glut of it, likewise lard. People want more and more meat, but want it to be leaner, creating a surplus of tallow. Also, its use in deep fryers, e.g., by the fast food industry, was curtailed when vegetable oil became preferable in the market. A relative of mine worked in a chemical factory in Detroit, that made lubricants for metal working. Many of them were eith…
> soap scum in hard water areas
I have a question, I live in a soft water area so I'm not familiar with the problem.
Would you have the same issue if you were using vegetable oil-based soap (e.g. Marseille soap, Castile soap etc.)? Or is any type of "fat" going to cause the same issue?