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Subject: Wire Wheel???
From: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 14:36:33 -0500
I have a little dilemmina. I have some chrome wire wheels for the 78 
Midget. Recently I have been getting a series of flats. It appears that 
the spokes are wearing holes in the tubes. Now before you get all excited 
and tell me I need the rubber bands that cover the spoke nipples, let me 
tell you I have them, Even got new ones. So shut up, Allen. My tire guy 
tells me that the bands only cover the nipples in the center of the wheel 
and the ones on the shoulder are exposed. This is true with both the old 
bands and the new ones. I figured the chromes were different from the 
original wires. But on inspection the wheel profile seems the same. These 
are Dayton wires (or is that Dunlop?? whichever were made in Merry Old).

Can I get a wider band? Cut up some tubes? Seal them and go tubeless??

Any ideas??

Thanks

Larry

Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu
System Administrator/Manager
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce St. - 1015 Gates
Philadelphia, PA 19104

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