Should I cover my tires?

Fresno Tundra Driver wrote:
Gdetrailer are you a retired petroleum engineer, chemist or tire manufacturer employee...?

No.

Kind of wish I did, I fell into a computer industry job.. But I did grow up helping my Dad in the oil fields of PA during my youth, my Grandad was a machinist as was my Great GrandDad (who even designed and built his own oilwell hit and miss engines) even had various patents on different oilwell related equipment.

Spent a lot of time working with my Dad learning who to repair vehicles mechanically and even sheetmetal body work.

My Dad also spent his entire work life working at a White oil refinery that is still existing today (my DW works there) making all kinds of food grade white oil based materials used in food, cosmetics and even pharmaceuticals. If you have ever used Vaseline Petroleum jelly or Chapstick and many more products that use Petrolatum, good chance that white oil based grease was refined near me..

White oil is one of the crude oil fractions leftover results from cracking raw crude oil into other usable products like gasoline, Diesel, ect.

My Dad was one very smart cookie with very little formal education as was his Dad and Grandad.. I have been blessed with the ability to pickup and learn things quickly whether by research and reading or doing things hands on.

Always have had a fascination with learning the nuts and bolts of how things are made or work whether it is electronic, mechanical or even chemical like tires (although I do not understand the math required behind the chemical thing).

If you want to learn how tires are made, there was a show called "How it's made" that featured tire building.. Fascinating to see how that is done.

Found that segment on Youtube..

HERE

Early tire building was all manual labor in dirty smelly plants, now days modern tires are down almost all by machines and robotics.. Although for the antique automobiles which are more a specialty item I suspect are more hand built than machine built.