X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from host.roblinphoto.com ([72.52.218.78] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2c4) with ESMTPS id 2632296 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:38:09 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=72.52.218.78; envelope-from=bob@bob-white.com Received: from c-68-35-160-229.hsd1.nm.comcast.net ([68.35.160.229]:51031 helo=quail) by host.roblinphoto.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JBDb8-0007uv-Jk for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:18:18 -0500 Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 11:36:23 -0700 From: Bob White To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Tubeless tires - off subject Message-Id: <20080105113623.2dd50850.bob@bob-white.com> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.0; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - host.roblinphoto.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lancaironline.net X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - bob-white.com A friend of mine told me about a farmer repairing his tractor tire. He was doing some work for the farmer when he observed this. This tire was over 6 ft dia. overall. The fellow telling this story had worked in an auto dealership where they would put a band around the tire on the tire machine and compress it to get the initial seal, much like the method Ed describes and normally used in tire shops. First they broke the bead and patched the tire on the inside. That took some rather large tools, crowbars I think. This left over an inch of gap between the tire bead and the rim. He was then expecting them to go get some big machine of some sort to compress a band around the tire to seal that bead. In fact his main interest was to see what a machine that could do that would look like. Instead, the farmer went to his truck and came back with a small aerosol can - starter fluid. After spraying the inside of the tire liberally with starter fluid, he stood back a ways and threw in a lit match. FAROOMP - the bead was sealed. Sorry this was so long and OT. The technique might come in handy in the back country if you end up with a flat and no spare sometime. Bob W. On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 09:06:55 -0800 "David Leonard" wrote: > Oh!! I like it! Thanks. > > Dave Leonard > > On Jan 5, 2008 9:01 AM, Blake Lewis wrote: > > > Try wrapping a ratchet strap around the circumference of the tire. > > Blake > > > > -- > > Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ > > Archive and UnSub: > > http://mail.lancaironline.net:81/lists/flyrotary/List.html > > > > > -- N93BD - Rotary Powered BD-4 - http://www.bob-white.com 3.8 Hours Total Time and holding Cables for your rotary installation - http://roblinstores.com/cables/