[AT] How to seat the bead on lawn tractor tires?

[Larry D. Goss]

A diesel engine is putting it in a 300:1 compression ratio.  Putting it
inside a tire and igniting it is burning it with no compression.  The
results are "not exactly" the same.  Since it's already a gas, the
expansion during combustion is not going to be very much.  As George
says, you get a satisfying "whump."  Some of the chemists on the list
could probably tell us what the expansion properties of a non-compressed
ether-air mixture would be.

Larry

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If too much can blow the head off a diesel  engine I wonder what is too
much 
for a tire. 

Walt Davies
Cooper  Hollow Farm
Monmouth, OR 97361
503 623-0460  

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