Abstract The tyre remanufacturing industries are facing quality and performance issues of the remanufactured tyres as they have developed their own retreading methods due to lack standardized process guidelines. This study focuses on identifying challenges process, highlighting various defects in retread causes so that could be mitigated improved. To achieve objectives study, tools including fi...

Composite pins of rubber dust collected from tyre retreading centres of trucks, cars and buses etc.and epoxy with weight percentages of 10. 15, and 20 % of rubber (weight fractions of 9, 13 and 17 % respectively) have been prepared in house with the help of a split wooden mould. The pins were tested in a pin-on-disc wear monitor to determine the co-efficient of friction and weight losses with v...

Since the Against the Day Wiki launched in October 2006, the Pynchon Wiki collection has received over twenty thousand edits, making it one of the largest, dedicated literary reference Wikis. One can now view and add annotations to all seven of Pynchon's novels – only Slow Leaner and his nonfiction remain sans Wiki -, and a loose community of over four hundred contributors have done so. This pa...