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Bushwheel care, life expectancy, and resurrection

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Thu May 22, 2008 8:43 am

Another tip is not to lock the brake and swing the tail around on pavement. Make large turns and keep the tires rolling. This will help extend the life of the tire.

I know a guy that rhino lined his BW. 8)

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Thu May 22, 2008 10:49 am

jgerard wrote:

I know a guy that rhino lined his BW. 8)

Jason

That worked? I've Rhino lined the tail wheel spring on an Ag plane that put out a lot of dry fertilizer, it worked for a while, but the fertilizer even ate through the Rhino. I wouldn't have thought it would be flexible enough to stay on a tire :shock:
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Sat May 24, 2008 5:12 pm

I bid up to 900. I will buy new after that. I have 2 sets of 31 radials i got used. I figure a few more sets and i will have a lifetime supply. :D
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Sun Jul 20, 2008 5:25 pm

bedliner on old tires.....

Ok had to try it, got a quart of Herculiner paint on bedliner at NAPA, put two light coats on a old pair of airstreaks I had, they were really getting sad..

So cleaned them well and wiped them down with thinner.... two light coats then drying for couple days.... mounted on cub and went out and landed on everything from gravel, rocks, shale, sand and even blacktop...spent several hours beating them in the ground....
with the rough finish I thought they might grab on pavement like crazy but no diff. from before...and they are flexible, look like new...the stuff seems to have just attached it's self to the old rubber....Consider the experiment a 9.5 !

Beats Shoe Goo hands down.........
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Sun Jul 20, 2008 6:00 pm

...cool !!
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Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:39 pm

Well John are you gonna give it a try?
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Mon Jul 21, 2008 2:31 am

...if I hadn't sold mine, I would. Maybe at the next round of tires. John
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Tue Jul 22, 2008 2:33 pm

Re: bedliner on old tires.....

glaciercub wrote:Ok had to try it, got a quart of Herculiner paint on bedliner at NAPA, put two light coats on a old pair of airstreaks I had, they were really getting sad..

So cleaned them well and wiped them down with thinner.... two light coats then drying for couple days.... mounted on cub and went out and landed on everything from gravel, rocks, shale, sand and even blacktop...spent several hours beating them in the ground....
with the rough finish I thought they might grab on pavement like crazy but no diff. from before...and they are flexible, look like new...the stuff seems to have just attached it's self to the old rubber....Consider the experiment a 9.5 !

Beats Shoe Goo hands down.........


Ha.... Knew it.... got lifetime tires now...... cool.....
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