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Re: A non-corrosive tire fluid?
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Posted by Hugh MacKay on November 24, 2005 at 01:52:48 from (216.208.58.104):
In Reply to: A non-corrosive tire fluid? posted by in-too-deep on November 23, 2005 at 07:59:49:
To start with calcium chloride has never been a problem for most commercial farmers. They wore a set of tires out in 5-7 years, pumped the chloride out, installed new tires and new stems on the tubes and pumped the chlorde back in. Most cleaned the rims and painted them each time. The problem with chloride started when folks began low hour per year, use of older tractors. With that tires were on tractors 20 years and longer. Most of the leaks doing damage to rims have been caused by one type of leak, that being valve stem leak. The cure for this is plain good maintainence. If you are in this last catergory, about every 5-7 years, park the tractor with valve stem at top. Jack the tractor to take weight off tire. Remove and replace the center screw in stem, then re inflate the tire. Another maintainence item done by farmers was in the event of a tire puncture, you cleaned the rim up and repainted it before re installing. Plain and simple guys, with good maintainence chloride will never destroy rims. I know of tractors over 50 years old original rims and have had chloride since new. Most rim rust outs have been caused by tractors going for years with leaky valve stems. Small pin holes in tubes very quickly become flat tires.
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