Is it safe to ducktape tires?
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That's a whole different debate. Between many new directional All Weather and other tires you can only keep them going one way. If you want to swap sides they need to be remounted. Staggered size and directional means one place only (unless remount).
I prefer cross rotate with asymmetrical tires if possible to help even out wear. Most of my 3 season have that option currently. My winter tires are directional so only get front>back on same side.
Thread discussions also cover those that hate to cross rotate for making belt flex go in opposite direction that it had been. YMMV
Hmmm, what brand of tires? and country of origin?
I've had a surprise when a cheap pair of bike grips basically shrunk, hardened and crumbled in a minute with a light spray of brake cleaner inside the grip and on the handle bar.... Never had a grip do that before or since? It seemed more of a catalytic reaction as the brake clean evaporates pretty fast, but I'm no chemist.
So maybe you won the lottery of odd tire chemistry and the perfect solvents in the glue to destroy the rubber?
They hold air but both holes are down to the belts. Obviously I drove over something but I wonder if duck tape is a contributing factor.
The first one I will replace the whole set due to age (2018). The second one, I wonder whether it could be repaired and I could drive another summer (around 4/32 to 5/32 tread).
The first one I will replace the whole set due to age (2018). The second one, I wonder whether it could be repaired and I could drive another summer (around 4/32 to 5/32 tread).
Duct tape (or Duck tape) did not in any way compromise the tread of your tires. The only potential effect is to leave tacky adhesive residue on the rubber. It would not be detrimental to the integrity of the tire.
Top one looks like there was a manufacturing problem where the two pieces of rubber didn't cure together properly. Bottom one is just physical damage from hitting something.
Either way, tape didn't have anything to do with it.
Either way, tape didn't have anything to do with it.
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It's really a non issue but to start a thread about it, I just don't know. Maybe spread some talcum powder on the residue, whatever...
Just use a special tire crayon on the inside face of the tire next time around.
Just use a special tire crayon on the inside face of the tire next time around.
Those are cuts. Unfortunate, but the duct tape had nothing to do with this. If there was a problem with the duct tape, it would be on the surface and localized to where the tape was and would be immediately apparent when the tape was removed.
Not true, historically.
“The ultimate wide-scale adoption of duck tape, today generally referred to as duct tape, came from Vesta Stoudt. Stoudt was worried that problems with ammunition box seals could cost soldiers precious time in battle, so she wrote to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1943 with the idea to seal the boxes with a fabric tape which she had tested. ///
Their new unnamed product was made of thin cotton duck coated in waterproof polyethylene (plastic) with a layer of rubber-based gray adhesive (branded as "Polycoat") bonded to one side.”
The “duck” came from what it was made from.
Well, this came in to my shop not to long ago. Teenage girl ended up getting a flat and tried to "repair" it.
Wow. All I can say is, "At least she tried," which is more than I could say about some of the women in my life.
I agree! I appreciate her ingenuity and attempt!
I wonder if that would have worked if it had been inside the tire...for a limited time at least.
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Tires come from the factory with a sticker on. I wouldn’t be that concerned.
Assuming the storage conditions were right, I’d look at wide masking tape.
Assuming the storage conditions were right, I’d look at wide masking tape.
Where is the WD40 thread?
That would work well for removing the adhesive tape residue.Where is the WD40 thread?
But WD40 would attack the rubber, making things worse. Better to leave the small amount of duct tape residue.
Sorry, I thought this thread veered from seriousness a while ago. I agree I might not actually use it for that.
But wouldn’t be using tape either when you can just make a Sharpie notation on the inside rim.
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