Slime and other similar tire leakage stoppers

Has anyone here used this type of product with any success? I work in construction and go thru scrap and recycle yards frequently and they are all heavy with screws nails etc. Today while getting loaded I found a nail in my end dump tire. And then another. And another. All told between 2 tires there was 5 nails and I'm sure there are more elsewhere that I didnt see. I hate having to inflate my tires every single day for 30 minutes before I go to work and I'm sick of blowouts due to pressure loss. Just last week I had to replace a steer that had maybe 5000 miles on it due to a nail going in right on the last tread, on the shoulder of the tire. I was told they couldn't get a patch to work there so I got to buy another brand new steer tire.

I know tire guys hate the stuff but has anyone used tire goop with any success? I've heard if it doesn't work and you then get a flat that it pretty much makes the tire unpatchable, any truth to this? Would love to hear what you all have to say, I'd really like to get my tire costs down.

 

I went to con-expo this year and came across a similar product that had a heck of a lot thicker consistency than the slime brand that was being marketed to commercial truck owners and this was the stuff I was thinking of using. I'll have to find the brochure I got from their booth and link their site. In the brochure they had a picture of a guy in a diesel pusher motorhome with 24.5's that smashed his wheel bead up a good 2 inches and this stuff sealed the hole well enough for him to limp the thing to a tire station 50 or so miles away (according to their brochure anyhow). They had videos of the stuff in action at the booth as well and it seemed legit. I may buy some and use it on some tires but now others and just be a little scientific about it with the 2 control groups. I'll post the link to the product here when I find it.

 

While looking for the particular brand I found this: http://www.goodyear.com/truck/technology/duraseal.html

Seems as though if a tire company is willing to endorse this kind of technology it's at least safe, to reply to the concerns of CondoCruiser.


I've found several other brands of "Commercial Grade" tire sealant, I think I'll be doing some looking into things and making a choice and trying one of the brands out. At this point it's going to be difficult to do anything that's going to make me replace MORE tires.

 

Here is the brand that I got the information from at Con-Expo in Vegas this winter: http://www.amerseal.com/



This is the particular testimonial that I had previously mentioned: http://www.amerseal.com/assets/docs/Bus_Rim_Leak.pdf



Here's a testimonial from a trucking company with actual noumber breakdowns and an explanation of how the product has saved them money: http://www.amerseal.com/assets/docs/Southern%20Illinois%20Motor%20Xpress%20Report.pdf


I think this is the brand that I will be going for. In the FAQ section they mention that this particular brand is completely water soluble. They also state that in independent testing this product sealed 86 individual 1/2" punctures in a 14-ply truck tire while it was still in use on the truck. It says the product is completely non-flammable and that it will not cause corrosion to any metal surfaces.

I'll keep everyone posted here on whether this stuff works worth a darn for me.