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We used to plug our company vehicles with pretty good success but with the price of tires nowadays almost equal to the price of the vehicle, I’ve been paying the little extra for the road hazard insurance and have used it twice on my wife’s suv. -
By wtnhighlander · Posted
Where I work, employees have to use the same 2-mile stretch of road to the plant entrance as all the scrap truck supplying us with steel to recycle. I've never had a plug fail either, but also never replaced a set of tires that didn't have at least one plug. I've noticed that tire wear seems to accelerate after that first plug, no matter how diligently I maintain the recommended pressure. FWIW, I used to run Michelins, and never got more than 55k miles on the 70k mile tires. Switched to Coopers, and the life expectancy is about the same, but replacement sets hurt my wallet far less... -
Pam's car had a flat tire this morning. It was the hardest to find leak I've ever looked for. I used three different bubble solutions and Dawn Commercial finally worked. It would very slowly blow one big bubble rather than a more typical steady stream. You can see the little cut in this picture, but that was after I had pulled it open long enough to find where the puncture went through. Before pulling on it, it was almost invisible. It was about exactly the size of a 16 penny nail, but I have no idea how it made such a little cut. It probably took me fifteen minutes to find it, but was easy to plug once I did. Of course, this is a practically new set of Michelins. I've never had a plug to fail for the life of any tire, but I'm really not sure how close this is to the edge of the steel belts. If it holds for a couple of days it should be fine. I keep an air compressor in all the vehicles. -
Sorry I wandered off. I did a bad glue up, tried to repair, and then decided to start over. Life got in the way for about a month but I am back at it. I won't drag you through the whole process again since it is posted above on the failed item. But, here is where we are . . . I template route a 1/4" groove. As long as you fill the groove size with the alternate material things should line up. Especially if you clamp things up correctly . . . not like I did on my first try. Cut the board in two along the routed groove. Flush trim the balance of the board's height. A top/bottom flush trim bit lets me route downhill both ways. The flexible sanding block lets me dress the routed edge. I rip some veneer at the bandsaw. A couple passes with the drum sander assure an equal thickness. These four strips will fill the 1/4" groove that I removed. LOML is ringing me in for lunch. We have plans for later so I may have to pick this up in the morning. -
By NikolaiFedorov · Posted
Oh a really nice touch to a place where you can store some wine bottles. I am trying to do also one for my place and thx God that I manage to find this post
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