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SAFETY WARNING Tight Tire Bolts

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Andy Martin

10-17-2007 12:54:29

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Beware of heat around inflated tires. You can wide up with a fatal blowout.

Deflate tires and take the valve core out before heating. If you ruin a tube it is a small price compared to a ruined life.

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ScottyHOMEy

10-17-2007 17:52:51

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GOOD CATCH! in reply to Andy Martin, 10-17-2007 12:54:29

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Wardner

10-17-2007 20:42:08

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Re: GOOD CATCH! in reply to ScottyHOMEy, 10-17-2007 17:52:51

You have to be a total Tyro Pyro to blow a hole in a rim or tire while cutting lug bolts. And even if you did do that, there would not be an explosion.

The initial rush of air from the first small penetration should be enough warning to let the torch operator know he had screwed up. There would not be a progressive chain of event that would lead to a catastrophe.

Let's get real, people.

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Ron in Nebr

10-18-2007 09:53:23

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Re: GOOD CATCH! in reply to Wardner, 10-17-2007 20:42:08

I think the safety precaution they were referring to wasn't "blowing a hole" in the rim with a torch, but rather heating the rim/tire enough that the air inside expanded to the point where it blew up just due to too much air pressure.

Like ya said Wardner, a person would have to be totally careless to ever have that happen. But I've heard and read that warning several times before too, so I don't think people just made it up. Someplace, sometime, there probably was a guy who's elevator didn't quite reach the top floor who decided he was gonna straighten a bent rim or something while still inflated by heating it red hot and hammering it back straight.

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Andy Martin

10-18-2007 10:59:13

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Re: GOOD CATCH! in reply to Ron in Nebr, 10-18-2007 09:53:23

It apparently does not even take that much heating.

I have read of multiple instances of people being killed when welding on rims, from overheating the rim and exploding the tire.

I have never seen a detailed report, but I can imagine someone innocently putting more and more heat on a lug, warming the rim.

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