First thing I do when I take a new tube out of the box is throw away the valve nut. It has no purpose other than to hold the valve in place for the first few pump strokes, after which air pressure in the tube takes over. I use my finger to hold the valve for those first few seconds.
Or, I suppose you could put the nut on, pump up the tire, and then take it off. Either way, once there’s air in the tube, the nut just sits there … or, as you note, sometimes lodges there. --Eric Norris Email: campyonly...@me.com Web: www.campyonly.com Blog: http://campyonlyguy.blogspot.com Twitter: @CampyOnlyGuy Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/campyonlyguy On Dec 23, 2013, at 10:00 PM, Michael <john11.2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Occasionally my bike's tube valve nuts get stuck on my Velocity Synergy and > Twin Holla' rims and cannot be removed by hand. > Don't know why this happens, but they cannot be turned without pliers/wrench > to get them off. Once the initial turn is made, they spin free on the stem - > no problem, > Somehow they are getting stuck onto the rim surface. Once they had green > patina under them. Today it didn't. > > This has never happened to me on non-Velocity rims. > > I'd hate to get caught out on the road with a flat and get stuck walking home > because the valve nut is stuck onto the rim and cannot be turned by hand. I > do have a pliers on my leatherman that I keep in my repair kit, so I guess > that would work. Thought I'd alert y'all here in case you didn't. > > So if you haven't had a flat in a while, check your stem nuts today. Give > them a whirl and free them up. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
