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Is there any special coating or paint that will strongly bond to an automobile tire's tread and can be driven on?
To add a bit to DKNguyen's answer:
The wear resistance of rubber as used in tire manufacture scales with its hardness. Hardness is varied by controlling the amount of carbon black milled into the ...
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Is there any special coating or paint that will strongly bond to an automobile tire's tread and can be driven on?
It is stated here that you get about 1mm of tire wear every 3600 miles.
https://www.blackcircles.com/helpcentre/tyres/how-many-miles-per-1mm-of-tread-depth
You're unlikely to find any coating more ...
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Any real heat engines based on the Carnot cycle? (or an equally efficient cycle)
There is a project for a heat engine based on Carnot cycle here :
https://dada-engine.org
But it needs lot of work before giving something real.
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Is there a way to add a DIY knock sensor to an engine?
A knock sensor is an accelerometer, with a restricted bandwidth. The location and the bandwidth and the sensitivity/threshold are important. For a production engine we run it at light knock (detected ...
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Is there a way to add a DIY knock sensor to an engine?
Some of the knock sensors are designed to fit into a bolt hole.
Some are designed as bolt through ie a "ring" for the sensor where the bolt goes through.
Either way, the issue will be having ...
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Why are car bodies not made of titanium?
Price average Titanium alloys costs 70-80 dollars a pound.
Steel cost 0.03 dollars a pound.
A unibody car chassis suddenly becomes 2000x more expensive for the raw material alone.
Workability, ...
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