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Re: Wire Wheel???

To: Larry Miller <millerls@ado13.com>, Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Wire Wheel???
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 12:46:40 -0800 (PST)
Hey Larry...I guess that makes 2 votes for Duct Tape!
:o)

Dan Dwelley
77 Midget
Alexandria, Va.

--- Larry Miller <millerls@ado13.com> wrote:
> Duct Tape ????
> 
> The Real Larry
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Larry Macy" <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
> To: <undisclosed-recipients:;>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 11:36 AM
> Subject: Wire Wheel???
> 
> 
> > 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
> >
> >  Ask a question and you're a fool for three
> minutes; do not ask a
> > question and you're a fool for the rest of your
> life.
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
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