Flats No Mo

 Anyone tried this?

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Tried what?

I don't download tubes.

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Yup.  30 years ago.  Didn't work.  But that was then and .....

I carried a tire repair kit including a small compressor in the intervening
years and, as a result of being prepared, never had a flat.  Don't run to
the door ....

 
I carry one too and still would.  I just pulled a bolt out of my tire
and plugged it.  Fortunately, I was home when I noticed the head
sticking out of the tire.

Krusty, it's a tire goo callled Ride On.  The video is very impressive
and you don't have to download a thing.

 

I've read about that stuff. They claim that ethylene glycol is
superior to the propylene glycol used by Slime and that their
proprietary concoction is "thixotropic".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thixotropic

Lah di dah...

The property of glycol that concerns me isn't how it flows to a leak
under air pressure.

What bugs me is that glycol is *corrosive* to aluminum surfaces.

I used Slime to stop a leak in a tire and then I stored that wheel for
several years.

The propylene glycol worked on the aluminum, severely pitting it.

But I was unaware of how badly glycol could corrode aluminum in the
presence of moist air and I used it in *another* wheel.

It was in there for two years before somebody complained about the
corrosive properties of Slime tire sealer.

When I changed the tire, I noticed that the glycol in slime had
started removing the *paint* from inside the aluminum wheel and had
begun to pit the exposed surface.

Slime has claimed that their proprietary tire sealant isn't corrosive,
and so does
Ride On.

The only way I can think of to stop a mildly alkaline chemical from
corroding aluminum would be to neutralize it by adding a weak acid.

Antifreeze is also made of either ethylene or propylene glycol and the
manufacturers add what they call "buffering agents" to protect the
internal parts of the engine.

The reason for *changing* antifreeze is that these buffering agents
get *used up* after a few years.

So what I'm thinking is that somebody who has used Ride On as a flat
preventative
needs to tell the tire ape who changes his tires to wash his wheel out
before installing a new tire.

And what tire ape is going to want to take the extra time to do that?