More About The Construction Of Floor Mats From Old Rubber Tires

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As you'll probably recall, Mother Earth News, No. 46, Pages 104-106 carried an article by Bob Stevenson entitled "How to Earn $100.00 a Day Recycling Old Tires." Now that article mainly had to do with the collection of "worn out" casings from service stations and garages for subsequent sale to retreaders and recappers. And, since the publication of the piece, we've received correspondence from a few folks who tell us that they've followed Bob's directions and successfully put themselves into that particular mini-business.

But that's not what I want to talk to you about. What I want to talk to you about is the little sidebar (addition to the main article) that appeared at the top of page 105 in Mother Earth News, No. 46 (reprinted below under "But What do You do with Casings that Can't be Recapped?")

Now, all we can say is that there's one heck of a lot of you fine folks out there who'd like to recycle old tires into floor mats, and most of you have written or phoned the Mother Earth News offices to ask if we've learned anything further about S. & S. Patents.

No, we haven't. S. & S. seems to have disappeared from the face of the earth. But we do know a little more about this particular recycling business now than we did back when Mother Earth News, No. 46 was published.

Mainly we know — just as the reprinted sidebar below stated — that there are a fair number of little one-to-ten-person shops around the country still making floor mats from worn-out tires. Some of those shops use old S. & S. machinery, some use a few other brands of equipment, and some use tire slicers and mat assembly frames of their own design.

As nearly as we can figure the situation out, nobody is currently in the business of manufacturing this particular kind of floor mat equipment. There are a few sets of used machines floating around, however, and one or two folks who seem willing to build a new set of equipment on a custom basis. These scant resources pretty well sum up our knowledge on that part of the subject at this time.

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