I have a challenge for you masterminds. Obviously we know at least most of us are interested in spinning stuff either that or we’re just here because we don’t have anything else to do.
But if 100 of us all met up at a contest or a club and we didn’t wanna talk about anything, but what other people were good at, I’m sure there would be as many skills brought up as people attending.
I’m sure some of our skills set selections overlap somewhat. But many of us do things for a living or as other hobbies that the rest of us don’t.
I’m posting this up because it has to do with a skill toy and I’m looking for any of you guys or girls that may have a background or at least some experience in plastics technology, formulation, etc.
What are you gonna see in the image I am posting up I find at the very least somewhat fascinating. If nothing else somewhat puzzling. I certainly don’t have an answer to what exactly is going on here?
I would say approximately 10 to 15 years ago, I bought four Spinabolos.
At the time I had a few others from other makers that I preferred and just decided not to break into these so I mothballed them away in a file cabinet in the basement of my old house. Temperature controlled humidity controlled, no direct sunlight, etc. nothing that I would consider that would degrade plastic at any sort of accelerated rate.
Any of you that’s old enough to have purchased items made from certain plastics years before, have found out the hard way that plastics at least certain formulations are certainly not made to last forever. I’m not saying its deliberate programmed obsolescence. But some things made out of plastic just start falling apart after several years.
My wife used a Motorola razor phone for so long, the people at the Verizon store, suggested it be sent to Motorola to put in their museum, lol. I talked to her and she actually decided to let me get her another phone and I set her phone in the back room on a shelf. A few months later, I took it out just for nostalgia purposes and the casing on the phone is sticky like a piece of tape.
I have a few old Nikon cool pics cameras. A 990 and a 995. The plastic/rubber coverings on both of them are sticky. The camera still work and you sure don’t have to worry about dropping them cause when you hold onto the grip it sticks to your hand. Lol.
For those of you that haven’t experienced any plastic degradation or complete breakdown when you see these pics, you know what I’m talking about. My problem is all four of these were stored in the same cabinet and the two smaller ones are flexible and in perfect shape like I just bought them yesterday. The two larger ones well… The image will tell you all you need to know except how they got that way.
If anybody has any thoughts on how two of these things could breakdown completely and two are as good as the day that I bought them, I’d sure like to hear some theories or some facts?
Drumroll please……….. Here’s the Pics>
