Flat tyres

[rhtrudder]

Thoughts on using anti puncture goo in aircraft tyres, planning on some trips away , don’t need flats, anyone tried this 

[turboplanner]

There's a long and informative thread about this on the site.

[skippydiesel]

There was a conversation/thread on this, just a little while back. From imperfect memory the respondents fell into three camps;

1. Carry a spare inner tube
2. And or tube repair kit
3. Various goo supporters

The first two are self explanatory. The third:

• Some opinion that goo's of various types, including the pressurised (inflating) delivery, are not suitable for tubed tyres.
• For the most part direct the user to drive for ?? kilometers at significant (?) speed - presumably to distribute the product & through tyre heating, cure it. Not so easy in an aircraft.
• May cause a severe imbalance - Could be dangerous, would certainly be alarming.
• May get you off the ground, only to arrive & land with a flat tyre - not a "good look" at all.

 

I am a supporter of 1 & 2  Carry a spare tube & tyre repair kit. However I recently experienced multiple small holes ,in one of my Ranger tubeless tyres, and for the first time used a pressurised goo type sealer - worked a treat. Did have to pump up to to correct pressure and complied with driving instructions, by doing a  20 kilometre round trip at 100 kph - not so skeptical now

 

Possibly your best preparation/defence against punctures, is to have your tyres inflated to their highest recommended pressure, to reduce side wall bellow/flex. The side walls are the thinnest part of the tyre carcass and most prone to damage. Low pressure allows the side walls to flex out more than normal, making them more vulnerable to penetration. 😈

 

Edited yesterday at 05:43 AM by skippydiesel

[Blueadventures]

5 hours ago, rhtrudder said:

Thoughts on using anti puncture goo in aircraft tyres, planning on some trips away , don’t need flats, anyone tried this 

I am set up to fix flat tyres when flying solo; so have a jack (0.5kg by Peter Anson Engineering), two bottles of repair foam for tubed tyres (0.3kg each), two tubes, tube repair kit, spare valves and removal tool and the necessary tools to remove wheel and disassemble the wheel; and a pump.  Mine is split rims and easy to get apart.  I've been involved with Savannah tyre changes and re tubing and there are a problem to get tyre bead off the rim, real hard and near impossible.  I say be able to do solo as you need to get wheel off the ground and a rock under the leg if you don't have a jack or a support. The P3 is great for a quick fix, get you going and about $26 a can.

Edited yesterday at 10:24 AM by Blueadventures

[Freizeitpilot]

Just curious - does the P3 have a flammable propellant and the can have a temperature limit stated on it at all ?

[skippydiesel]

Blueadventures,

 

As a repair in a can proponent, would you mind addressing the perceived negatives.

 

How often have you used this sort of product onan aircraft tyre?😈

[Blueadventures]

22 hours ago, Freizeitpilot said:

Just curious - does the P3 have a flammable propellant and the can have a temperature limit stated on it at all ?

It contains a flammable propellant; there is a safety data sheet for it. It works very well I'm told by a reliable person who has used two cans on at least two occasions as he fly's a Nynja at an airfield that has thorns in the grass.

[Blueadventures]

10 hours ago, skippydiesel said:

Blueadventures,

 

As a repair in a can proponent, would you mind addressing the perceived negatives.

 

How often have you used this sort of product onan aircraft tyre?😈

I have detailed my knowledge of the P3 product in the earlier post and in the other thread.

 

It would be helpful to all if you could update your post with the product brand detail of what you used.  You have omitted this information.

[skippydiesel]

Further to Blue adventures request - some information about the wheels/tyres that this or similar products have been used on.

 

Reasons -

As stated earlier here is some suggestion that its not so effective in tubed tyres.

How has the instruction post application,  to drive for a certain time & speed, been accomodated? 😈