I'd rather have a solid rubber tire but nobody makes one with the right size
axle. Wheelbarrow tires have tubes that come off the wheels about 2-3" on each
side, its the tube the bearings ride in, I'm not sure what to call them. The
proper wheels are only 1.5 or so inches. If somebody had a big lathe you could
cut the wheel down so it'd fit right...
-Curt
From: Floyd Thursby via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
To: mercedes@okiebenz.com
Cc: Floyd Thursby <buggeredbenzm...@gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 4, 2016 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT little trailer tar
I managed to get the tar on the rim this afternoon just by hand. I
tired, oops, tried, a strap on it but that got it all squished up and it
wouldn't set. I just hooked up a little electric compressor and kinda
squeezed it by hand and it finally seated and pumped up. I ran it up to
about 30psi then stuck it in a trash bin full of water to see if there
was a leak somewhere. Turns out the cheepchineechittar has a
circumferential slit in the sidewall just above the bead about 1/2" long
in one spot that was slowly bubbling. Makes no sense other than a
cheepchineechittar probably using old recycled toada tar rubber or
something pulled from a knackered ship in Indja.
Deflated the tar and sprung that side off the rim then gobbed some
shoegoo on both sides and worked it in the slit. Will reseat it tamar
and pump it up and see if the goo holds. I'm sure it will let go again
some time in the future and I might have to try the magic foam trick.
I've got a couple of those metal carts that the tars have give out on,
even the sealer foam doesn't work so I guess nothing to lose with the
foam in a can. Be a lot cheaper than buying more HF tars/rims even
though they are like $5 on sale. Even fooling with cheap tubes doesn't
sound worth the bother.
Shoegoo to the rescoo!
--FT
On 9/1/16 8:58 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote:
> Since mine is already off the rim I intended to shoot it in through the gap
> using the tire stem hole as the relief. When you get tires filled they drill
> a hole opposite the valve stem for a release.
> I saw one guy who stuffed foam pieces into the tire before shooting foam in
> so he wouldn't have to use so much. I was thinking that might work better
> since the open cell foam would have some give.
> My thought is I don't have anything to lose, the tires are already showing
> signs of splitting. The old tires work better than the new ones although the
> tubes are so bad they bled slime the last time I tried to use them, they'd
> hold air for about an hour at a time...
>
>
> -Curt
>
> From: OK Don <okd...@gmail.com>
> To: Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com>; Mercedes Discussion List
><mercedes@okiebenz.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 1, 2016 8:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT little trailer tar
>
> I'd think you'd want to drill several more "valve stem" holes for better
> distribution of the foam?
>
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 6:53 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes
> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>
> I've gone through this with the little trailer at camp. Its hauled a bunch of
> gravel, rocks, mulch, firewood, etc and the original tires rotted away after
> maybe 25-30 years. Got some replacements at Harbor Freight which lasted about
> 3 years.
> I bought some solid tires at Harbor Freight which turned out to be
> wheelbarrow wheels that didn't fit for a variety of reasons.
> There are some videos of folks on Youtube filling their offroad trailer tires
> with spray foam, the Great Stuff that you buy at the hardware store. They
> claim it works great. Then you Google it and theres plenty that say it won't
> work too. I've got one of the crappy tires in my garage, before I go up to
> camp in October I'm gonna fill it and see what happens...
> -Curt
>
>
>
--
--FT
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