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Applying Rubber to Full Steel Wheels

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Tom in Iowa City

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I will soon be ready to affix rubber to my McCormick-Deering 22-36 wheels, which will be sandblasted and painted later this week.
I have been advised, by my tire shop, to go to a place that does retreading and get the material there.
They said that it would not work to try to use material off of worn out tires, because of all of the steel belts making it impossible to get the tread material off of those tires to have the proper curvature, because it would be too hard to cut, or some such problem.
What do you all know about that?
What would I have to expect to pay for the rubber material?
I was lead to believe that I could get discarded rubber and do it for next to nothing, save for the nuts and bolts?
Tom
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Tractor tires for the most part do not have any steel belts in them, and while I have never done what you want to do, I can say that everyone I have seen was done using worn out tires. Just cut off the sidewall and I think the remaining tread portion will conform to the radius just fine.
 
Contact this company in WI. Contact Rubber Co.
262-857-2361. Here's their web site. Hal

http://www.contactrubber.com/contact.asp

PS: Did you get the rods and pistons out?
 
Thanks for the reply, Hal.
NO, I did not get them out yet. I am going through a soaking period yet. Then, I'll probably try to set some fluid on fire and see what happens. Tom
 
Tom: For my Regular I used some old 45 degree tires. I cut the tire across the tread, laid it out full length on a plank, clamped it down, and with some WD-40 on hand, I cut off the sidewalls with a circular saw. Took time and lots of lubricant but the results were worth it. For the fronts I did the same, except I used single rib tires.
 
I used old tires to cover the steel wheels of my F12. I just used a sawzaw to cut off the side walls than bolted the tread to the wheel and cut them to size. Worked great and the tires were free.
 
I have seen some really nice jobs using the tread off of semi-truck tires. Not sure how they cut them, but they cut just the tread. I have had luck using a sawzall or jig saw. Then they used carraige bolts to attach.

Takes some time, but makes a really nice job.

Miller Tire does sell rubber lugs, but they are EXPENSIVE!
 
Have you ever thought about getting them cut down and having rims welded and tires installed?
They did that on our 10-20. When the main road was paved they couldn't run the tractor on the road since some of the fields couldn't be reached without using that main road. They hauled manure to those fields too. Hal
 
El toro has a point. One thing to remember. If you make them cut downs, youcan't go backwards if you ever want to. If you bolt on rubber, you can still run them as steel if you wanted to.

decisions, decisions......................... :wink:
 
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