Thread Number: 55480
The Secret is Out - We now know what Philco-Bendix Door and Soap Boots were made out of! |
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Post# 778740   8/22/2014 at 16:07 (3,505 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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Post# 778743 , Reply# 1   8/22/2014 at 16:15 (3,505 days old) by turquoisedude (.)   |   | |
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Post# 778751 , Reply# 2   8/22/2014 at 16:48 (3,505 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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now we must find the molds !!
Enjay was a division of Humble Oil which all turned into Exxon eventually. I think Humble was the parent over Enjay & Esso.
Enjay was located in NJ at the time of this ad. This post was last edited 08/22/2014 at 20:01 |
Post# 778752 , Reply# 3   8/22/2014 at 16:48 (3,505 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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Nope, no recipe, but it's good to know the name Butyl and Chlorobutyl. If any of us ever remakes these boots I'm sure it would be better to use modern silicone rubber, but to have the actual rubber name for a historical reference is amazing. I've never seen it mentioned anywhere before this ad.
If Enjay is still around they might have the molds? |
Post# 778756 , Reply# 4   8/22/2014 at 17:30 (3,505 days old) by turquoisedude (.)   |   | |
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Post# 778852 , Reply# 5   8/23/2014 at 04:31 (3,505 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea))   |   | |
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The antitrust breakup of Standard Oil spawned a plethora of names/logos and lawsuits over every one of them. 'Exxon' was at last adopted as a 'made-up word that meant nothing in any language' to label all the dissenting versions. Enjay was obviously NJ, New Jersey. Here's the whole sordid story, if you can follow it.
Now of course, we're invited to think of Exxon-Mobil. Probably to NOT think of Exxon-Valdez, though oiled seabirds is the image I get from 'Exxon'. CLICK HERE TO GO TO arbilab's LINK |
Post# 778861 , Reply# 6   8/23/2014 at 07:04 (3,505 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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Post# 778863 , Reply# 7   8/23/2014 at 07:28 (3,505 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA)   |   | |
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The reason Enjay Chemical was named that was because Standard Oil of New Jersey (Esso) only had rights to that name in certain states...in all actuality they were Esso Chemical; but couldn't operate under that name in most of the states. The original Standard Oil companies owned the rights to that name in their territories...Socony-Vacuum (Mobil) was Standard/New York; American Oil Company (Amoco) was Standard of Indiana, Standard of California was Chevron, Standard of Kentucky was KYSO, Standard of Ohio was Sohio, etc etc. Growing up in Missouri, the Standard station was Standard of Indiana. They all had an interoperable credit card system back in the 40s/50s/60s until they started to merge and create national retail footprints. The last truly interoperable card was Sohio, who maintained their agreements with all of the original Standards. My dad had tins of epoxy glue in the work room which were labeled Enjay (must have been from roughly 1970 right before Exxon).
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Post# 778864 , Reply# 8   8/23/2014 at 07:32 (3,505 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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It's a shame that ESSO did not have a bee for its corporate mascot. |
Post# 778870 , Reply# 9   8/23/2014 at 08:36 (3,505 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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Every Sucker Stops Once, I will not to this day buy gas at a Exon Station, the Valdez mess and Exons continued use of single haul tankers is not something I want to support. We have several friends that worked for Mobil Oil for years and when Exon took over Mobil they lost a lot of benefits including their domestic partner benefits.
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Post# 778904 , Reply# 10   8/23/2014 at 14:17 (3,505 days old) by firedome (Binghamton NY & Lake Champlain VT)   |   | |
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are standard synthetic rubber types and still readily available in raw form, I know of an industrial source for them. I recall making Butyl in Organic Chem lab once using a catalyst to polymerize, I think, isobutylene, or something close. It's very similar to car inner tube rubber, ie: impermeable and resilient, and maybe a boot could be somehow made out of those.
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