K-Dawg30
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This was posted by a known karting tire guy on facebook regarding tire samples and lab tests in response to what I am assuming is Jason Feger's DQ.... here is the 100% factual truth
"Ok this is for those of you that don't quite have the understanding of the lab test. Now first off you have take into consideration that there are many different chemicals out there , not to mention chemicals that are combined to make a common chemical that are slightly different due to who produced them. Now you take a common chemical we will say " hot lap &WD 40" and have it tested it will come back with a sheet similar to this with many different possibilities or matches. It shows the percentage match out of a 1,000 that it could be along with the absorbance rate which is the determined amount found in the product being tested. So part of the data is error or computer matches that are not correct and others are chemicals that combined into one make something all together different. So in order to understand what you have , you would to start testing other chemicals to get your controls. So if in example you would get wd 40 & test it because you knew the product had wd 40 in it then you can take those two data sheets cross reference and then cancel out . Then you would have to continue to search and test till you found a cross reference to the remaining data. So in testing for prep in tires it makes it hard to get exactly rite unless you can have the prep there to test so you can combine like substances found and say yes this is prep and not my race fuel that my crew member spilled or whatever else you can think of. Now there are other tests that can be done but all run into similar problems of playing detective and wasting large amounts of money and time."
Attatched is what a lab result looks like when it comes back. Bottom line guys, technically speaking, dawn dish soap alters the rubber. We all know it doesnt give an advantage though...and Im sorry plain water does not get your tires clean. Idk what the answer is but maybe this will shed some light into just how complicated this is.
"Ok this is for those of you that don't quite have the understanding of the lab test. Now first off you have take into consideration that there are many different chemicals out there , not to mention chemicals that are combined to make a common chemical that are slightly different due to who produced them. Now you take a common chemical we will say " hot lap &WD 40" and have it tested it will come back with a sheet similar to this with many different possibilities or matches. It shows the percentage match out of a 1,000 that it could be along with the absorbance rate which is the determined amount found in the product being tested. So part of the data is error or computer matches that are not correct and others are chemicals that combined into one make something all together different. So in order to understand what you have , you would to start testing other chemicals to get your controls. So if in example you would get wd 40 & test it because you knew the product had wd 40 in it then you can take those two data sheets cross reference and then cancel out . Then you would have to continue to search and test till you found a cross reference to the remaining data. So in testing for prep in tires it makes it hard to get exactly rite unless you can have the prep there to test so you can combine like substances found and say yes this is prep and not my race fuel that my crew member spilled or whatever else you can think of. Now there are other tests that can be done but all run into similar problems of playing detective and wasting large amounts of money and time."
Attatched is what a lab result looks like when it comes back. Bottom line guys, technically speaking, dawn dish soap alters the rubber. We all know it doesnt give an advantage though...and Im sorry plain water does not get your tires clean. Idk what the answer is but maybe this will shed some light into just how complicated this is.