[talk-ph] tag for vulcanizing shops

[George Tujan]

and in our dialect we even call it bolkit! hehehe but seriously how do
we settle this?
do we go with shop=vulcanizing? which btw, is ok here but definitely
not applicable elsewhere (as Eugene pointed out)
or maybe another suggestion? shop=tire_repair perhaps?


On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar<seav80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> (Bit off-topic)
>
> I got curious about this and did some reading. Apparently in other
> countries, what we call "vulcanizing" is simply "patching tires".
> Vulcanization is actually the process of making raw rubber (you know, the
> sap from rubber trees) an elastic solid by having it bind with other
> chemicals, usually sulfur. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcanization
>
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> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Mike Collinson <mike at ayeltd.biz> wrote:
>>
>> At 08:46 AM 17/06/2009, maning sambale wrote:
>> >Just curious is this just a pinoy thing (vulcanizing)? Or we havesimilar
>> > shops like this in other countries.
>>
>> A Pinoy thing!  ... I must admit when I first came to the Philippines I
>> had to ask what it meant though I now understand it is the proper technical
>> term. It is a fantastic name, I somehow expect to meet the god Vulcan every
>> time I pass one.
>>
>> Mike
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