Waiting on the tire guy, blew a drive tire.

It all about priorities in life. Some people have theirs in order and some don’t. If guys want to waste money on toys, bar tabs or presents for mama instead of tires that won’t put them on the side of the road because “tires are expensive” (no ####, really?), then we just don’t see eye to eye on that one I guess.

 

the casings have a useable life span. Recaps CAN be fine as long as the casing is not damaged or too old, but that’s the rub. Virgins typically run out of tread long before they age out of being safe to run on equipment that works full time, so that doesn’t become an issue and low tire pressure is just people not doing a proper walk around often enough.

 

I remember one summer the old man had nothing but issues with new recaps starting to seperate on every drive and trailer tire. Replaced them all with new tires before they left him stuck on the shoulder. Never had issues like that the following decade with virgin China tires on the trailer.

 

Recaps are inspected before they are recapped. Who creates recaps? If recaps were junk only the shady users would ever buy them. Don't confuse a personal "nothing is good enough for my baby" with "that's dangerous." Plenty of good companies use them because they are good enough. If virgin rubber was obviously better every company that have appointment times would use them.

 

Like the old saw on jewelry: "If you do not know jewelry, know your jeweler..

On recaps... Try to stick with the same shop. Hard on road, but some have outlets. Worth sending a hand for $ to an off TS place to get quality.
I/we never had a tire problem, every Garrard trailer had two spare racks. Mounted, aired and up...

 

Riddell would run virgin down on drive and never damaged. Get them capped.
Run that cap down and sell the carcass to the re capper as he knew what he was getting to resell.

 

Priorities are to operate as economically as possible within safe parameters. We were referring to tires or at least
I was. I am grown so no need for toys, meds prohibit bar expenses, and mama passed away in 2011.

To just arbitrarily say buy new, recaps are no no's, is not a good example of priorities. Sort of tunnel vision, of which I have been guilty of many times. Sometimes I learned and tried the other mans way and was pleasantly and economically surprised.