The purpose of using studs on tires is obvious - to prevent slipping on the road. The second method is to use special Velcro rubber, which also prevents the car from skidding. Are there really no more technologies that help a car move confidently in winter? Enthusiasts from the Garage 54 channel had an idea to use the old anti-slip method used for...shoes. Its sole is smeared with glue and sprinkled with regular sand. And it is essentially sandpaper, which sharply increases friction. As a result, pedestrians are not afraid of any ice. So why not try to transfer this technology to a car tire?
No sooner said than done. We thoroughly clean the tire and treat it with sandpaper. Degrease as required by the instructions for the adhesive composition. We apply it to the tread and roll the wheel on dried sand. We repeat the operation again to get two layers on the tire. Now, for the purity of the experiment, we will drive on regular summer tires on a snowy surface: acceleration to 40 km/h takes as much as 27 seconds with slipping! Now we check the braking distance: it was 45 m. At the next stage, we install “modernized” tires and carry out the same tests. And what is the result? Watch the video!
The K-46 truck crane on the ZIL-164 chassis is a triumph of Soviet builders
Soviet truck cranes did not have an impressive boom reach, but were still valued at construction sites. Of course - they made manual work tens, or even hundreds of times easier...
