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#526176 10/15/18 07:54 PM
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So, where did the descriptive "hard rubber" come from? Anybody know when or who coined the phrase?

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Well, the material was technically a rubber by compositin. And it wasnt soft. So... Hard Rubber.


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Gutta-percha was a natural latex product originally derived from a tree in Malaysia, and was widely used in the second 1/2 of the 1800s. Hard rubber was made by vulcanization of India rubber from the latex of different trees. Both are pliable when heated; hard when cooled.
Bakelite was the first plastic and patented in 1909, and mostly replaced gutta-percha.

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Thanks to both of you. Just the kind of information I was hoping for. I just couldn't find it doing searches.

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I do not like when a Fox or other older doubles are described as having a plastic buttplate. Bobby

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Some history here. When I was on the PGCA Research Committee, copying the Parker records at Ilion in 1998, we came upon many orders that called of "rubber butts". We assumed that these orders referred to recoil pads. We were wrong, the term referred to the hard rubber buttplates that were standard on most Parkers. The members of the Research Committee grew a bit tired of seeing this term used and gravitated to the more interesting term "Rub her butt". We attribute this term to Research Committee member Allen Swanson.

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when you sand or rub hard on an original "hard Rubber" butt plate it smells like rubber

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Okay. Are the reproductions "hard rubber", or are they plastic?

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Stan,
Ureathane. Better in every respect.

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Thanks, Ted. There are so many different kinds of plastic, it is plumb comfewsing. Plus, I just have a hard time growing fond of any of it.

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