Re: tracks from tires

[paul needham <paul.2.needham-at-btconnect.com>]

Joe

What sort of width/length were these tyres ?

Paul

At 06:01 23/09/2004, you wrote:

>Mike,
>
>At 10:48 PM 9/22/2004 -0500, Mike Butts <buttsakauf-at-earthlink.net> wrote:
>>   I reference to mounting guide horns on the inside of a mountain bike 
>> tire. I say that an in-depth study of glues would be in order. There are 
>> some incredible ones out there. Blue RTV silicon is very nice though 
>> probably a bit too flexible. CA glue is too brittle. I would check on 
>> stuff like Gorilla Glue I have used it on various things and found it to 
>> be incredibly strong. It is activated by a tiny amount of moisture and 
>> expand 3 times its initial size to fill small gaps. It must be clamped 
>> though to attain full strength.
>>Mike Butts
>>(interested guy from texas)
>
>You know more about adhesives than I do.  I hate
>sticky stuff.
>
>I hereby commission you to visit your local bike
>shop, obtain some discarded tires, slit the beads
>off (while retaining all ten digits), and conduct an
>"an in-depth study of glues".
>
>Give it a try.  Our current resident expert on sticky
>stuff, Steve Tyng, recommends GOOP for almost
>every application (including salving paint ball wounds
>incurred in battle.)
>
>Bike tires for tracks would provide awesome traction
>and would be very cheap.
>
>Keep us posted on:
>a)  number of fingers
>b)  how much skin has been stuck and torn off
>c)  if this can work or not
>
>Best wishes,
>Joe
>
>
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