Re: oilheads-digest V3 #127

[Karl Johnson <karljohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Whitehorse carries the StopNGo plug gun. Sounds similar to what  
you've used...
http://www.whitehorsepress.com/product_info.php?products_id=2631

I've used it once. It was on the last day of a long trip, so the tire  
was about done for anyway, but the plug was fine for 400 miles. No  
air loss whatsoever at the end of the day.

Karl

On Aug 9, 2006, at 7:47 AM, Bill Moss wrote:

> I have had two flats in the past 18 months, one front and one rear;
> rotten luck or road construction, not sure. Both were MEZ6's. In both
> cases the Ride-On in the tires sealed the leak well enough to get me
> home, albeit with stops every 15-20 minutes to add 5-7psig back  
> into the
> tires with an electric pump I carry.
>
> I successfully repaired both tires at home using a plug gun which I  
> also
> keep on the bike in case the Ride-On does not work. I purchased  
> this gun
> many years ago but I know it is still sold by JC Whitney and a  
> number of
> specialty houses. I  takes a hollow insertion tool in which a mushroom
> shaped plug is inserted, the plug is coated with glue if you wish but
> lubricant works better. The gun injects the plug into the tire and the
> mushroom expands on the inside. When you pull the tool out, the  
> stem of
> the mushroom is sticking out of the hole and you trim it flush. The
> plugs are chemically treated to vulcanize to the tire when driven.
>
> Over about 25 years, I have fixed everything from 255x35-17 car  
> tires to
> belted motorcycle tires with this tool. I tried reading the name  
> off the
> two guns I own but age has worn away the markings .
>
> Note: Slime, which I have used in trail bike tires, now has a high  
> speed
> formula and it may work as well as the Ride-On.
>
> oilheads-digest wrote:
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>> Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 06:34:36 +1000
>> From: "Kit Scally" <kitscally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: Radial tyre repair ?
>>
>> Recently installed a pair of (new) Avon Viper radials. Less than  
>> 2,000kms
>> wear to date.  Gutter-crawled at a set of lights the other day and  
>> picked up
>> a nail in the rear resulting in slow deflation. Due to fear of  
>> litigation,
>> most repair shops will now not plug/repair radials, so a new tyre was
>> required - at A$290 (U$145) !
>>
>> Is there a "safe way" to repair radials for anything other than  
>> track-days ?
>>
>> What's the current trend in the good old US of A ?
>> Has anyone successfully sued their local council for the (here at  
>> least)
>> terrible state of garbage in the gutters on most suburban roads ?
>> Should you just lie back and think of it as "doing your bit" for  
>> the world
>> tyre economy ?
>>
>> Kit Scally
>> R1100s Mandarin, 110,000kms
>> Sydney

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