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Emergency tire inflating
Posted: Jan 23rd, '09, 10:57
by Bruce
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Posted: Jan 23rd, '09, 12:11
by CaptPatrick
Pretty neat trick, just be sure to have a can of ether on hand before you need to inflate a tire. This would come in handy especially for those little cheapie tires. I've had to re-inflate the ones on my small garden tractor trailer and it's a real bitch to get that first puff of air to hold. 'Course I slimed the hell out of 'em after the last go-around so don't expect that problem again...
Posted: Jan 24th, '09, 12:22
by Ironman
We ve done the bobcats like that.lotta flats.. Before the solids.Forget about it.
Wayne
Hey did you see the tv fix with a baseball bat
Posted: Jan 24th, '09, 12:57
by randall
that was pretty cool. i just caulk the bead on the wheelbarrow tire to get it started.
Posted: Jan 24th, '09, 16:04
by dougl33
Pretty cool. What's the science behind why it works? Is it because O2 is fuel for the fire?
Posted: Jan 24th, '09, 16:16
by mike ohlstein
dougl33 wrote:Pretty cool. What's the science behind why it works? Is it because O2 is fuel for the fire?
It's probably starting fluid......
Posted: Jan 24th, '09, 16:32
by Bruce
The accelerant (starter fluid, etc) and O2 burns, superheats the air, it expands and causes the tire to expand and seal.
Posted: Jan 26th, '09, 08:46
by Rawleigh
The expansion from the "explosion" causes the bead to seat so that you can then add air from a compressor. This just seats the bead.
Posted: Jan 26th, '09, 15:14
by Mikey
Hey Y'all, watch this!
Posted: Jan 26th, '09, 15:38
by mike ohlstein
Errrrrrrr.....
What were the idiots last words?
Posted: Jan 26th, '09, 16:19
by Harry Babb
Here! ! !.........ya'll hold my beer and watch this sh*t.........
(Its a suthen thang!!)
H
Posted: Jan 26th, '09, 16:38
by Harry Babb
You guys may find this very interesting..........it actually happened to a friend of mine......I know the guy and story first hand.
The front tire on the truck was leaking. Started out to be a slow leak.....just add air every week or so. As time went on the leak became larger and required air more frquently so my friend just added "Fix A Flat"....that helped but did not stop the leak. So over time he added more air and more "Fix A Flat".
One day he happened to notice that the Rim was cracked. The rims were the White sort of Spoke rims that were popular in the 70's. You still see this kind of rim on utility trailers today.
He thought that the thing to do was weld up the crack and he made an attempt to do so without removing the tire....obviously not a good decision....hind sight is always 20/20
BOOM ! ! !
When he struck an arc....the mixture of PROPANE (fix a flat propellant) and air inside the tire exploded. The explosion actually partially dismounted the tire, it folded his welding shield inside out, it cut off part of his chin, it ruptured both ear drums, detached the retina in one of his eyes and knocked him unconscious. His dad was dove hunting in a field nearly a mile away and heard the explosion.
Just a little something all of us tinkerers need to know.
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Another story with a similiar ending is our Accetlyene Bombs......I will tell that story on another day........
Harry