Talk:Duroplast

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Recycled[edit]

"...making the Trabant the first car with a body made of recycled materil..." Of course steel is often recycled, so is this a bit sweeping? Rich Farmbrough, 15:54 25 February 2007 (GMT).

I don't think the citation (an actor's ramblings in some interview) is particularly valid given the fact that the claim makes no sense. From the wiki article on steel:

"Steel is one of the most recycled materials in the world,[47] and, as of 2007, more than 78% of steel was recycled in the United States.[48] In the United States it is the most widely recycled material; in 2000, more than 60 million metric tons were recycled.[47][49]"

"The steel industry has been actively recycling for more than 150 years, in large part because it is economically advantageous to do so. It is cheaper to recycle steel than to mine iron ore and manipulate it through the production process to form new steel." 72.15.34.235 (talk) 20:10, 8 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed the above text as you are right steel is a recycled commodity. I've marked the remaining text as dubious because is all duroplast made from "cotton waste" (what part of the cotton waste?) and phenol? Wizard191 (talk) 19:04, 11 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Duroplast[edit]

Um, the German term Duroplast means (at least according to the German WP article, and to my knowledge) any "inflexible" plastic (I think perhaps thermoset)? --88.74.154.241 (talk) 18:18, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, indeed! German "Duroplast" is english "thermoset", nothing more. The car Trabant used a composite thermosetting plastic for many parts of the car body. The composite fiber used was cotton.

The term "Duroplast" does not describe a material brand, or a specific material or kind of material. A Duroplast is just one of thousands of plastics that were soft or liquid during production, but can not be made soft again by heating, like the other class of plastics, the thermoplasts. These are called thermosets.

Really, this article makes no sense and needs to be deleted.

It is just the same as having an article titled "Metal", writing about the VW Golf car, explaining how it is made of "metal", and that metals are mixed to make a VW Golf - never mentioning steel.-Volker Siegel (talk) 12:50, 12 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That's the direct translation, however there are many different applications and versions of thermoset plastic, as explained in that article. Kindzmarauli (talk) 16:07, 2 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Very poor English throughout[edit]

What is a 'people's car'? That's a Communist propaganda term, not an actual English phrase.

Lots of misspellings, poor syntax and poor punctuation throughout. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.2.221.112 (talk) 11:56, 2 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]