Let's say that each of these Plattfuss Rubber Bands, made from old bike inner-tubes, is 2mm wide. You get around 70 in a pack, which requires 140mm (5.5-inches) of OG bike tube to make them. The sizes ...

You may think that garden hoses don't have much use once they've sprung a leak, but they're a great DIY material that can be ...

Don’t throw away your old bike inner tubes: Use them to make something instead. Old, punctured rubber tubes are the secret MacGyver tool lurking in almost everybody’s tool box, and here at the Lab we ...

A big missing link in synthetic rubber— a good, plentiful substitute for rubber in inner tubes—appeared last week to have been found. U.S. synthetic rubbers or soft plastics have been developed to do ...

While the three types of power washer hoses — rubber, PVC, and polyurethane — all have advantages, there's one clear winner ...