cadeneta de aeropuerto

06:40 May 27, 2014 

As the one who was plugging the tyre theory I now feel rather foolish. The rest of you were quite right to be more cautious. However, although there's no photographic evidence they must surely be used as bases (filled in with something, I presume) rather than being linked together as chains. I hesitate to rule anything out, but the latter really would be bizarre.

06:24 May 27, 2014 

...they are indeed tyre rims - they've sent the photo which will accompany the article (which is, I'm a little disappointed to observe, only a pile of tyre rims among other scrap metal, not of them being put to use).

09:20 May 25, 2014 

Great photos! And really they don't look so bad; I think they might grow on you.

09:08 May 25, 2014 

08:57 May 25, 2014 

I have seen old tyres used in some of these ways, but not wheel rims; it's a bit hard to imagine how you would use rims like this. Anyway, there is a large supply of used tyres for recycling but surely a very limited supply of used wheel rims, which are never normally replaced. I'm almost certain it must mean tyres. Even if the text was produced in Spain it's quite possible that it was written by a speaker of American origin. Maybe they melt them down, but I rather doubt it; I think they must be using them as is.

08:47 May 25, 2014 

whether 'llanta' refers to rims or tyres. I would imagine either can be melted down to make other things. I'm sorry I can't offer more help.

08:28 May 25, 2014 

Good morning! Until I read your entries here this morning I was thinking they used the tyres to make the chains. Mosuse mats were/are often made of old tyres.

I think the supports are called either 'posts' or 'stanchions'.

http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/stanchio...

22:24 May 24, 2014 

Well there you are: the light dawned simultaneously.

22:24 May 24, 2014 

And from the bit you've quoted it seems to me that the tyres are used not as "cadenetas" but as "soportes de cadenetas"; the "cadenetas, along with the sunshades, traffic signs etc, are structures for which tyres can be used as stands. And they are probably the kind of thing Helena's referred to: barriers.

22:23 May 24, 2014 

(distracted by that sport being played on the TV which my family has insisted be switched on in my supposedly working presence), I realise that I've been thinking that the rims themselves were being formed into a chain, whereas it's going to be the heavy based stands for those chains, feeling a bit "espesa". But I still needed the way to express the chains (thanks Helena).

22:19 May 24, 2014 

The article (about various aspects of design) has been sent to me by a Spanish client for a Spanish publication, but the contextual references are Latin American, although the language is neutral.

Here's the sentence: "Podemos encontrar llantas de coche como soporte de un sinfín de estructuras y muebles, desde sombrillas, lavabos, señales de tráfico, cadenetas de aeropuerto o puestos de mercado."

22:16 May 24, 2014 

Yes, as Helena says (and as of course you know, Noni) it means rim in Spain, but it means tyre in most if not all of Latin America. So where's your text from? And could we have the actual sentence?

(I haven't recovered from the football. I was rooting for Atlético.)

21:52 May 24, 2014 

Where I live in Spain, 'llanta' is definitely a wheel rim: the support that holds a tyre.

As for 'cadeneta de aeropuerto', I would think it can only refer to the little chains, 'cadenetas', you see outside the arrivals area: where people meet passengers after they've cleared customs.