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  1. 1st April 2011, 06:45 PM #1
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    Well worth knowing.

    For all those who do their own repairs, this is something I didn't know.
    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBUVzgCHHuA]YouTube - Wheels of Fire Training Video[/ame]
    I have actually had this happen to me, after contact with HT wires, half an hour later blew a steer (11Rx22.5) tyre. After all these years I now know what caused it.
    If you don't like trucks, stop buying stuff.
    http://www.aulro.com/afvb/signaturepics/sigpic20865_1.gif
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    Wow! That is amazing. Had no idea that sort of thing could happen from what appears to be something so minor as a bit of heat in the rim...

    As they say, you learn something every day. - I just did!
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    sure beats a deodorant can on the fire
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    I worked at Telfer 30 years ago and we had a little truck (35 tonner) blow a tyre hours after it had stopped working.
    I was doing something in the workshop yard about 100 metres from the line of trucks where this one was and really felt the blast and it was a very very loud bang when it blew.
    Even glasses on the shelves in the pub about a mile away were set rattling together apparently.
    Management/supervision arrived in a rush because they thought a loader had dug into some unexploded ANFO at the bottom of a blast hole.
    The hydraulic tank was blown off the truck and the cab off the truck parked next to it.
    Luckily none of the mechanics or servicemen were checking the trucks at that time or loss of life could have resulted.
    The cause was tyre treads laminating causing the heat which kept building even though the truck had been parked up for hours.
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    Thanks very much for the post. Frightening and definitely worth knowing!
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    Van bang

    Hi All

    In 1973 I was on my way from Atherton to Normanton, N Qld. I had a wheel explode on a caravan, quarter of an hour after using the extinguisher on a brake fire.
    The bloke that had waved me down to stop, came around to the side of the van to look at the damage. The van was on a lean towards us on the side of the road, and the tyre at that stage looked ok.
    The bloke squatted down to have a better look !!! Yes you guessed it.
    Any way he wasn't hurt and we all only had a good scare.

    Looking at the wheel after I made good the repairs to the van. I noticed that the rim's beads were flattened out near completely and had always been puzzled about this.
    Now after all those years, this video has explained what happened.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBUVzgCHHuA

    Cheers Arthur
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