Reinflate A Very Flat Tire

Colleen Micheleti

I was thinking the same thing.... A guy showed me this once, and he ended up with a sealed tire and no eyebrows!

That's such a neat trick!

I have a come along that i somehow managed to totally mess up! But you are giving me big ideas. Might be a good in-between too to use as a flexible, variable in size vice?

A life saver Fran, thank you.

Bruce Havourd

You may wish to take a water brush (for water base paints) and paint some soapy water on the rims, inside and out, before you cinch up your come-along to keep it from leaking later.

Rish

I tend to use my belt, that way I don't have to go anywhere!

Great trick. That’s safer then my method. I’ll have to see if it works on tractor tires. Because the only way to get them beaded is spray some carb cleaner inside the tire and light it with a lighter. You get a loud pop and the tire is almost full of air. Been doing it for 30 years with no explosions and I know a lot of people that do this also. But the next tractor tire I do I’ll get the big car tie down straps and see if it will work on one of those.

Piero Davies

Nice trick with that tyre. Love your comment, as you fade audio, lol.

Bruce Davis

coolness.

I Love It, That test message interrupted many lives today. Good to know it works, I guess.

Jason Greene

I pay someone else to do it. Missing detail: I'm a truck driver lol. I wish the ratchet strap trick worked for them, but it will work for most tires.

Jac Goudsmit

I can almost hear Beavis and Butthead say "If I could pump that fast, I'd never leave the house" :) Good tip! Thanks for posting.

This is ultra-smart. For folks with a tire pump and no compressor it is a minor salvation.

Aaron Nadler

That is a whole bunch safer than the propane torch I've used on my friends scooter tire!! Thanks!

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Toooobs! They're not just for guitar amps.

Jamie Magin

After I ruinedthe first tire on my wheelbarrow I replaced it with an airless foam/solid tire. But I can imagine these being nice for carrying around fragile things and indoors.

Brilliant! I also was expecting that lighter fluid trick (which I doubt works on such small tires) but love this approach :)

Jason Olshefsky

I switched to finding just the right length of bungee cord. It's a little fiddly to get it in place, but way easier to get off once air goes in. One of the risks here is that the only slightly elastic nylon strap is being tensioned by pneumatic pressure, so if you use a compressed air source like I do (rather than the easy-to-modulate bicycle pump) the pressure can snap the strap. Given a 1" wide strap on an 8" tire, that's about 25 square inches x 30 psi, that's 750 pounds of outward force. I'm totally not good with the physics here, but I would bet that's at least close to the breaking force for a cheap strap, so if you accidentally didn't stop at 30, it's not hard to get to some really dangerous amount of force.

I expected the classic ”Starter Fluid and a Lighter” method so popular on YouTube. :)