RE: LRO: Tires - oops - Tyres

From: Easton Trevor A (trevor_easton@dofasco.ca)
Date: Wed Jun 06 2001 - 10:04:55 EDT

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            J-L wrote
    > Another idea I had, after looking at drag race cars, is to screw the tire
    > into the rim. Racers use small hex head screws, about 5/8" in length,
    > screw
    > them through the outer lip of the rim, into the tire, to hold it up
    > against
    > the rim, kind of like a poor man's beadlock. Any opinions on this?
    >
            This method is also used by the swamp crowd as a beadlock for
    running low pressures.
            I wonder how an moisture curing polyurethane adhesive would work?
    Basically stick the bead to the rim. I might make it a bitch to remove
    though.



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