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Pedro's LubricantsPEDRO'S ATB SYN LUBE
This synthetic lube has been designed specifically for mountain biking. It has very good staying power, with the use of heavy oil, thanks to a unique blend of synthetic lube and detergent polymers which help break down dirt and debris. These polymers also increase the adhesive qualities of the lube, but do not add thickness or weight. Syn Lube is packaged in two ounce environmentally aware squeeze bottles. ATB Syn Lube comes in a 2 oz. drip/squeeze bottle or a 12 oz. squeeze bottle for those who don't want to run out. 2 oz. drip bottle $ Price in Catalog PEDRO'S ROAD SYN LUBE
This is a very similar composition to the Syn Lube used for mountain bikes, but is a little thinner for more delicate road racing bicycle parts. It has a synthetic lubrication blend and detergent polymers to help break down dirt and debris. Road Lube (red in color) is packaged in a 2 oz. squeeze bottle. $ Price in Catalog PEDRO'S SYN GREASE
Pedro's Syn Grease is the grease complement to the famous Syn Lube series of liquid lubricants. It's a 100% synthetic grease that offers superior water and corrosion resistance. It's concocted with structural stability for longer lasting performance. It comes in a pink 3 oz. tube that can be injected into the bearings with the Syn Grease, or the Fat Chance grease injector. It can also be applied the old fashioned way by wiping it thoroughly around the bearings and setting them. 3 oz. tube $ Price in Catalog PEDRO'S BIKE LUST POLISH
Pedro's Bike Lust is a one-step cleaning and polishing product applied using a pump spray bottle. When sprayed onto and wiped, it leaves a clean surface that has a protective silicone finish that helps shed future dirt and water from adhering to the surface. Non-toxic, in 12 or 32 ounce bottles 12 ounce pump bottle $ Price in Catalog PEDRO'S BIO-DEGREASER
Pedro's Bio-degreaser is an environmentally safe cleaning agent that comes in two forms. The first is a 12 ounce bottle of diluted ready to use de-greaser. The second is in the form a 32 ounce bottle of concentrate that can be diluted with 3 parts water to make a gallon of de-greaser, which can be applied several ways, including the Bio-shot can. 12 ounce pump bottle $ Price in Catalog PEDRO'S BIO SHOT
Pedro's re-markets a device known to others as the Sure Shot Atomizer, which is re-usable spray can container that uses compressed air as the propellent. The aluminum can has a air tight top, with a Schraeder valve for air compressor or pump to pressurize the can to between 80 and 200 PSI. The spray has a 16 ounce capacity, and can be used with any of the lubricants or cleaners, or many other household liquids including paints of several types. The spray can comes with four different aerosol nozzles each with a different flow rate, (if you ever need more, they can be taken from any disposable aerosol can), and two siphon hose/aerosol valve tops. Among all the things written about in the Lubricants section, this is the most impressive, (not that we didn't know they existed, we just stopped seeing them at auto paint stores a few years ago), because it will last a lifetime, and gives you the power to make an aerosol spray of nearly any liquid. Every crafty person should own at least one. 16 ounce spray set $ Price in Catalog |
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In-depth Information About Metals Aluminum Aluminum is extracted electrolytically from bauxite ore. It is made by the electrolysis of aluminum oxide which is found in larger concentrations within bauxite ore. Bauxite is a mixture of the hydroxides of aluminum, together with other impurities such as oxides of iron, titanium, and silicon. Bauxite is produced by the weathering and change of aluminum silicate rocks usually found in tropical and semitropical regions where climate has produced an accelerated weathering process. Bauxite is not a rare ore and is widely available in the US, the Caribbean, and Europe. Approximately 4 pounds of read the full article... Beryllium Beryllium is a specialty metal that is steel-grey metal in color, with an extremely low density, making it very light weight. At 1.85 grams to the cubic centimeter, its density compares to that of magnesium. It is also a high strength metal, making it possible to design light weight, thin membered parts with ahigh stiffness. A column made of beryllium to support a load placed directly downward on top of it, will have a greater load carrying capacity, and be lower in weight than any other metal of equal size. Until the 1950's beryllium was used read the full article... Titanium The element titanium was discovered in 1763 by an English cleric, William Gregor who was an amateur chemist with an inquiring mind. It was in the black sands of Cornwall that he discovered the new element that had up to that time, attracted little scientific interest. A few years later, an Austrian, Klaproth, extracted the same element from an ore widely known as "rutile", which is a mineral consisting of titanium dioxide (one titanium atom, two oxygen atoms), that is a reddish-brown substance with a slight metallic luster. While rutile is the highest grade read the full article... Metallurgic Hardness Testing There are three types of tests used with accuracy by the metals industry,they are the Brinell hardness test, the Rockwell hardness test, and the Vickers hardness test. Hardness is the property of a metal which gives it the ability to resist being permanently deformed (bent, broken, or have its shape changed), when a load is applied. The greater the hardness of the metal, the greater resistance it has to deformation. Since the definitions of metallurgic ultimate strength and hardness are rather similar, it can generally be assumed read the full article... |
