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

Mon Jun 22 16:08:07 PDT 2020

 This group has changed through out the years.  Now talking about Antique tractor POX! :-}  

We purchased a number of damaged tires throughout the years. We had a place in the Houston Area what would vulcanize the tires.  I had a three inch diameter hole in a large rear tire on a farmall H.  

This is an old tire that was given to me from a farmer friend. The threads were worn so he retired the tire.  He was a commercial farmer and farmed about 2000 acres.
We ran it five or six years.  I ran over a yaupon stump and knocked a large hole in the middle of the tread. They replace the rubber when done you could not tell that tire was ever damaged. Vulcanized it.  They repaired a lot of tires that way.
That tire still holds air 30 years later.
http://www.dhtire.com/OTR/Tire-Vulcanizing

    On Monday, June 22, 2020, 4:10:56 PM CDT, Mogrits <mogrits at gmail.com> wrote:  

 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

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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