Thread: Small equipment tyres always flat- solutions?

Modern tubes have less, if any, rubber in the composition.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Modern tubes have less, if any, rubber in the composition.

That is why I used a (?)

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Maybe we go back to the wooden wheel

What’s that noise I hear????
Look out it’s the greenies rustling in the bushes

Originally Posted by Gav 110

Maybe we go back to the wooden wheel

What’s that noise I hear????
Look out it’s the greenies rustling in the bushes

.......or cast off Millstones which have excellent road holding ability apparently.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Modern tubes have less, if any, rubber in the composition.

When I was on motorcycles back in the UK I fitted a cheap inner tube. Problem was that when it punctured it deflated instantly so I went back to Michelin tubes which typically deflated slowly when punctured. I think this was when the cheap ones started to use less rubber.

Back to small equipment tyres.....has anyone actually checked what it costs to foam fill ?
You retain some of the features of a pneumatic tyre, they fill the tube with a polyurethane foam which sets overnight.

I have a concrete mixer with a flat tyre, the tube split. Struggling to even locate a cheap tube of the correct size, seems I need to buy new wheels ! There is a place in Bayswater that keeps a lot of small inner tubes but not the size I'm after.


Colin

Every place I ever worked , which is a lot , had hand trolleys and wheeled equipment with flat tyres.

Never difficult to repair , it was above the level of most of the prima donna engineering tradesmen I met.

Yep they're not at all difficult to repair, perhaps I too am a prima donna but when I want to split a load of firewood, that's what I want to do, not fix the damn tyres on the splitter. Same when I want to move something in the shed- sick of having to fix the tyres on the trolley first. Wind has died down and it's time to spray some weeds- but wait, you have to fix the tyres on the spray unit first. Just nipping over to the wood shed to fill the barrow with firewood....

I've bought a bottle of the green slime, I guess I should treat some tyres now so I don't have to do it next time I want to use something with tyres. But I'm in the middle of fixing something else (when I finish this coffee!) so it'll probably have to wait until I need to spray some weeds, split some wood, move something in the shed....

If the slime lets me down (ha ha) I'll look into the foam fill but honestly it sounds like it's bound to be expensive.