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

[Mogrits]

Farmer,

Would aluminum "screen wire" work for your reinforcement? It's pretty
flexible.

Warren

On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 8:08 PM Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
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> 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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