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" <wdleonard@gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh!!  I like it!   Thanks.
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> Dave Leonard
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> On Jan 5, 2008 9:01 AM, Blake Lewis <blake.lewis@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Try wrapping a ratchet strap around the circumference of the tire.
> > Blake
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