Simple solution to the pinched tube. Take a plastic bottle and cut a strip around the bottle (like a bleach bottle) about the width of the inner part of the hub. When you install the tube and tire on one half the rim, place the plastic piece inside and then push the other rim inside it. Keeps the tube from getting pinched. Won't hurt the tube/rim or tire and won't collect moisture either.
Ron --- On Wed, 4/14/10, Dan Heath <da...@windstream.net> wrote: > From: Dan Heath <da...@windstream.net> > Subject: KR> Wheels > To: "'KRnet'" <kr...@mylist.net>, "'Corvair engines for homebuilt aircraft'" > <corvaircr...@mylist.net> > Date: Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 11:47 PM > I have the old Rosenhan split > wheel. It has been impossible for me to get a > tube in it without cutting the tube by pinching it between > the halves. I > have lightly inflated the tube, put baby powder all over > everything, and > still the tube got split. The really bad thing about > this, is that it will > hold air and you can't know that it is not right. So, > I had to land with a > flat tire, and got very lucky. I don't want to count > on luck any more. > > > > Does anyone know of a supply source for 11X4X5 wheels made > to replace the > old Rosenhan, now called Matco, that are made for the > external hydraulic > brake disk, that is a single piece wheel, where the tire > can be put on it, > like it is on a car.? > > > > Thank you for your time. > > > > Daniel R. Heath > > da...@windstream.net > > See N64KR at <http://krbuilder.org/> http://KRBuilder.org - Then click on > the pics > > See you at the 2010 - KR Gathering in Richmond, Ky - I39 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html >
