[AT] The old tractor curse... Tires and batteries

[Indiana Robinson]

Seems I'm always out of both and money too.
Working on a few tires at the moment for a garden trailer and a garden
tractor. I only "work" a couple of my tractors these days and those not
very hard. Still, they operate better with air in the tires.  :-)
I keep buying cheap tires at auctions but I have avoided auctions this year
and most regular auctions have been canceled. Many of those tires have a
bad spot or two but I can deal with those pretty well. The problem is that
so many of these old tires are just kind of weak all over. Tire liners can
extend them for puttering but those liners are pretty pricey and prone to
shifting and tube chaffing.
I keep looking for answers in a permanently flexible near super adhesive
(not something hard that can break) and some kind of high strength woven
material that is thin but strong. Very strong. I basically have the
adhesive, It is the most heavily used adhesive in the shoe repair industry
around the world. I used it daily for over 20 years. Extremely flexible,
extremely strong. I found it ultra useful in tire repairing since it is far
superior to anything that was available to me through tire repair supply
vendors. It bonds well to about anything except plastics. Fully water
proof.
That material is commonly referred to in the trades as "All Purpose Cement
(cement, never "glue"). I used to always buy it by the gallon. Note too
that proper preparation of all surfaces is paramount including priming of
dry surfaces.
https://angelusdirect.com/products/all-purpose-shoe-cement

As a support material I have wondered about several different ones. The
adhesive above works pretty well on woven materials including synthetics as
long as  it is a fairly fine weave. Not something like chicken wire.  :-)
Coarse canvas might be OK but maybe too weak unless laminated several ply's
deep. I have considered something more like Kevlar or woven carbon fiber
(and I have noted that their cost has come down some) but I don't know much
about them. Kind of a big hole in my knowledge base...

On a side note on tire repair one of the required items in in my tool kit
for tires is a very large container of very cheap talcum powder... You
don't want your inner tube to be sticking to your tire repairs.  :-)
Side, side note: As a teen (1950's) I showed a lot of pure-bred Yorkshire
hogs (white for those not familiar) and used about a ton of cheap Apple
Blossom talcum powder on them. They smelled pretty nice for pigs.  :-)
After raising all of those Yorkshire hogs I found it interesting when I got
deeply into genealogy later to find that while my early paternal ancestors
were Norse Vikings who migrated to the Scottish Highlands as Clan Gunn,
very many of my paternal ancestors came here in the 1600's from Yorkshire
in Northern England.


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Francis Robinson
aka "farmer"
Central Indiana USA
robinson46176 at gmail.com
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