Here's where plugging a tire works better than buying a new one. NOT SPAM

[Tom]

Buying a new tire is not always the best solution.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a24270/repairing-a-30000-bulldozer-tire/?src=nl&mag=pop&list=nl_pnl_news&date=121416

[fotoguzzi]

interesting.

[screamday]

Wow....that was pretty interesting indeed. I wonder how long it takes to make a repair like that.

[lti_57]

That was cool video
I noticed it was a repair shop  prob not out in the field kind of repair
Always amazed at the creative solutions  people/companies come up with to address a issue.


same fine folks who make my bicycle tire repair kits

[bigbikerrick]

That was a cool video, I cant believe I watched the whole thing, but it was so interesting, I could not shut it down until finished!
Rick.

[Lannis]

That was a cool video, I cant believe I watched the whole thing, but it was so interesting, I could not shut it down until finished!
Rick.

Exactly what I was typing when your response came in.

14 minute video, and worth watching.   I'm guessing that we missed about a two hour flat-rate job for a quick, careful workman like the guy doing this one.   That's a lot of cutting, grinding, and "cushion gum" (I need to find out what that is) fill and trimming. 

Probably a $600 job including the shop rate?

Lannis

Buying a new tire is not always the best solution.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a24270/repairing-a-30000-bulldozer-tire/?src=nl&mag=pop&list=nl_pnl_news&date=121416

[Muzz]

So does the cushion gum get treated in any way to make it as hard as the original rubber or does it just set by itself?

Very interesting video thanks Tom.

[Tom]

I was thinking while watching the vid.  Cost of a new tire and patching it.  Damnnnnnn!   

[Kentktk]

  I'm guessing that we missed about a two hour flat-rate job for a quick, careful workman like the guy doing this one.   

Probably a $600 job including the shop rate?

Lannis

Being careful and working a flat-rate job is an oxymoron. He probably only made $100 out of the $600 to save some cheap ass $30,000.

[stormshearon]

Very interesting - but how in the heck does the patch get cured\vulcanized??

[Muzz]

Very interesting - but how in the heck does the patch get cured\vulcanized??

As the patch (which I guess is liberally reinforced with some hi-tec fibre) is on the inside, I suspect a good glue with lots of surface area will suffice. However, the gum on the outside......

[fotoguzzi]

Must have been a pretty big nail or what ever to make that puncture, wish they showed what caused it.

[RinkRat II]

Very interesting - but how in the heck does the patch get cured\vulcanized??

 Here Ya Go................. .


     Heat applied top and bottom and Voila! Just like new.

Paul B

[Lannis]

Must have been a pretty big nail or what ever to make that puncture, wish they showed what caused it.

I'm wagering that it was a piece of quartz in a quarry operation, or over rocks in an excavating job that included quartz.

We ordered a load of gravel for our access road from a quarry we hadn't used before, and it had pieces of quartz it in that were shaped like stone daggers and were as sharp as razors.    We literally cut three tires on our car into unusability before we realized what was happening, and had to have it graded and covered over with proper #57 limestone and crusher run ....

Lannis

[Muzz]

Here Ya Go................. .


     Heat applied top and bottom and Voila! Just like new.

Paul B

Thanks Paul. Thought it would have needed vulcanizing but did not show it in the video.