Tubeless tires

[ssor]

This is almost as far off topic as we can get, but sit back, hold on tight cause here goes!

In some regards I am as lazy as a man can be and still hold his head up. Well I have a wheel barrow that is about forty years in my company and about two years ago I had a new tire put on the wheel. It promptly went flat! I have an air compressor, so it was easier to inflate it than to return it to the folks that sold me the tire.
Last week my wife got after me about having to pump the tire every time I needed the wheelbarrow and why didn't I just get it fixed. I had checked for leaks and the whole dang tire leaked through the side walls, a little soap brushed on the tire and by next morning it looked moldy for all the patches of foam.
Now a new tire only costs twenty bucks and it comes with the wheel. But dang-it-all I gotta earn that twenty bucks, so a couple of days ago I poured about a pint of latex resin from an old can of latex paint into the inside of that tire and pumped it back up. Well I kicked that tire tonight and it is still hard.
Now I don't know if this is useful information to anybody but please fell free to use it as I think it is too much work to try to corner the market on this method.

Ross in Bel Air

[Gary E]

Glad you fixed it but your a little late with that as all the auto stores have something in a can called Fix a Flat or some such name.

[ssor]

Originally posted by Gary E:
Glad you fixed it but your a little late with that as all the auto stores have something in a can called Fix a Flat or some such name.But I didn't have to go some place and buy it!!!

[Victor]

How long did it take you to dismount, coat, and remount the tire?

[ssor]

Didn't! just broke the bead loose and poured the stuff in over the rim. :D

[maa. melee]

gas pipe fitter's flexible compound (the stuff u smear on the threads of black iron pipe) spread liberally onto the mating surfaces of the tire and rim held my father's tubeless tire for the ole barrow for many decades. i like ur good honest quick-fix. great ingenuity smile.gif

[Noah]

Hell, Cotton keeps the water out of my wooden boat. Who would have thunk it?

[Ken Hutchins]

Damm, I didn't think of the cans of old latex paint I have. I just got some green stuff from the auto parts place, it's called SLIME, I put it in the lawn tractor tires, some of the cracks in the side walls are 1/16 wide and they no longer leak, the lable on the bottle claims it will fix up 1/4 inch wide cracks.

Edit to add the bottle says to put a whole bottle in each tire, not me I'm too cheap, I did all 4 tires with the single bottle, just have to remove the wheel and slosh it around to cover all the inside, the stuff is squirted in the valve stem with the valve removed, then replace valve and inflate.

[ 07-12-2005, 08:07 AM: Message edited by: Ken Hutchins ]

[Brian Palmer]

We had some slow but annoying leaks on two of our mini-vans tires, so I put a can of fix a flat in each tire and that seemed to seal up the leaks. Then we got a nail in one of the tires. The guy at the tire store said that fix a flat will start to eat your tires from the inside out, so you really shouldn't use it except for emergencies.

BTW, after putting in the fix a flat, there is no way that little can could have filled a flat tire up enough to drive on. There was very little change in tire pressure. It still needed more air from a pump. I keep a cheap bike pump in the back of the van, just in case.

Latex on wheel barrow tire should be relatively benign.

- Brian

[capt jake]

After using Fix-a-Flat, be aware that there is no way to properly patch the tire. It is a temporary fix, but also deems the tire unservicable.

Green Slime is great stuff when it comes to Bicycles, wheelbarrows, ets. I used it in some bicycle tires and it held for over three years (with no use) after running over a bunch of nasty Goat Head thorns. There was literally hundreds of tiny holes. It sealed them up. smile.gif

[Brian Palmer]

I am pretty sure the one that was fixed from the nail hole is one of the two I used fix-a-flat on. The can, I believe, even says to have the tire repaired properly after using the product.

-- Brian