RE: tracks from tires

["SteveT44" <SteveT44-at-comcast.net>]

Mike,

You could try using pieces cut from a v-belt as guide pieces.  They of
course would be "Gooped" to the inside of the tire.  You could staple them
in place from the outside or even use small flathead wood screws.

About the Gorilla type glues.  I've used them in the past on metal to metal
bonds and those joints are still holding.  I find it's use with wood
requires good clamping for a decent bond.  I don't like the high price and
limited shelf life.  I also wonder how it will hold up where there would be
a lot of flex involved.

The T34 is held together with Titebond II one part waterproof adhesive
(http://www.titebond.com).  Titebond also works well as a waterproof wood
coating.  It's a good and lower cost choice instead of epoxy in a coating
application.

As for Goop brand adhesive (http://www.eclecticproducts.com/).  It's still
holding the original TTS together just fine.

A glue I've always wanted to try are the new grades of polyurethane
construction adhesives that have come on the market in the past few years.
These are kind of a poor mans Sikaflex.  Sikaflex is premium polyurethane
marine adhesive/sealant that bonds anything together permanantly but very
exphensive.  I've read decent write-ups concerning these polyurethane
construction adhesives in the backyard boatbuilding world.


     Steve "I also build boats" Tyng



> Subject: Re: tracks from tires
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> Mike,
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> 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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