Anyone here done tyre repair with vulcanizing tools.

ajginger · Mar 14, 2020

Just wondering if any here have used the vulcanization method of tyre repair for sidewall cuts ect... ?

DIYDAVE · Mar 16, 2020

You mean like this?

Was gonna say everybody does it in hawaii, but then couldn't find no hawaiian tire repair videos! Anyway its a good thing we use roman gods to name the process steada greek god.
Could you imagine tryin to Hephaestusize somethin? You'll haveta settle for filipinos, wouldn't osha have a field day, wif dem work boots? Anyway, sing me out, jimmy!

Blocker in MS · Mar 16, 2020

So, are you asking about the vulcanizing process or how well the results hold up?

Tugger2 · Mar 16, 2020

Just remember repairing tires is for tiremen!

ajginger · Mar 18, 2020

Blocker in MS said:
So, are you asking about the vulcanizing process or how well the results hold up?

Yes I was wondering how well the vulcanizing repairs work at fixing sidewall cuts ect.... on larger tyres.

Blocker in MS · Mar 18, 2020

I want to say it is dependent on who does them. I have run 710R42’s and 800R38’s one tractors with them and they held for a long time, even with the extreme side loading encountered on articulated tractors pulling scrapers. We have had several 20.5 and 23.5x25 scraper tires done in the past too. Most hold for a long time. Some seem to give up quickly. I would definitely do more.

mitch504 · Mar 18, 2020

I send sidewall cuts to my recapper, they do what they call a section repair. It holds up fine. The hot repair like that video showed is the way everybody around here repaired truck tires when I was a boy, but I don't remember them doing sidewalls. By time I was a teenager, only the old loggers and old farmers were doing hot tire repair.

Jonas302 · Mar 18, 2020

We get section repairs done on sidewalls they hold up fine seem to be ready to give before the rest of the sidewall but can sure save an expensive tire they do the same for truck tires but the hole has to be much much smaller

Nige · Mar 18, 2020

I assume that you are referring to the tyres on the 988B.

First question. Are they bias-ply or radials..?

ajginger · Mar 19, 2020

Nige said:
I assume that you are referring to the tyres on the 988B.

First question. Are they bias-ply or radials..?

I was thinking about it for any rubber tyre machine here and also for the future when I inevetably get a sidewall cut in a 988 tyre.
Buy another or vulcanize repair ?

The 988 tyres are bias-ply.

Nige · Mar 19, 2020

I'm not a tyre expert but in my experience bias plies can be more difficult to repair than radials.
I think if it was me I'd investigate getting some decent tyre R&I tooling, have a spare tyre, and if you get a cut haul it to a tyre specialist to fix for you.
Either way to do a proper vulcaniziation job the tyre has to come off the rim so by doing that part yourself you'd already be ahead. Have fun with that because getting bias plies off rims is a real task, especially if your tooling isn't 100% up to it.

Blocker in MS · Mar 19, 2020

Once again, Nige has it hit the nail on the head. All of them I have ever run were sent to the tire dealer who put them on a truck to a regional supplier/warehouse where they were repaired. It took a while to get them back. I cannot remember what size tires or on a 988. https://www.amazon.com/ESCO-Hydraulic-Breaker-Model-10820/dp/B004HL3S6G
These are great if you plan to start working on tires much.

Nige · Mar 19, 2020

Blocker in MS said:
I cannot remember what size tires or on a 988.

35/65R33's on the latest models. I think the older ones were the same size just in bias ply rather than radial.

Anyone here done tyre repair with vulcanizing tools.

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