Hi DCM, you might need to explain to me, I appreciate you are likely to know far more than me on the subject of materials, but I am a fast learner, so please do...
What I meant is a spec from each manufacturer for each compound within. So:
Schumacher green =
Schumacher yellow =
Schumacher Blue
BB Pink =
BB Green =
BB Blue =
So we'd have 6 different values. But with a single acceptable tolerance of a set (sensible) value. This would be accross the mould tho, so a yellow Minipin is equivalent in shore to a yellow minispike (unless this cannot be done due to thickness or shape of the rubber?)
What are you saying? That the shore value cannot be measured? I am not talking about comparing Greens vs Yellows, but Schumacher Greens vs Shumacher Greens. It doesn't matter what the 6 individual values are, as long as each batch of tyres within can be quality checked against the specified shore rating.
This would be very good, as it stops all this shananigans and if a fault is discovered - the buck stops with the vendor. But with this means that this fault may never ever re-occur!
and if this is not possible, then my idea is void from the beginning.
It may be a bit extreme, bit like measuring the bend in bananas.... but it does matter.
Chris