![]() A couple of times when i replaced tires on small riders, i cut up the old tire with a carpet knife and put the old tread inside the new tire as a 'liner' to protect to tube. If you get an actual puncture (not just a leak due to poor surfaces in the bead area, etc), a tubed tire will go flat just as easy as a tubeless one. Slime type products generally stay liquid and are constantly sloshing around in the tire waiting for new leaks to plug.Īnd im surprised people are saying they used tubes and haven't added air in years. One big downside of fix a flat vs slime is its more of a one-time thing. You air it up until it's full, remove the can, preferably spin the wheel a bit, slowly let air out so it doesn't blow any of the good stuff out with it, and then keep 'reinflating' it with the fix a flat until it's all in there. Also, you can use a whole can of fix a flat on a small tire, it's just tedious. Should still spin the wheel as soon as possible after inflating. ![]() ![]() Fix a flat just goes where the air goes (at least, for the first little bit when you shoot it in) and will find a bead leak a lot better. So this has sort of been addressed indirectly but one big difference between 'slime' and fix-a-flat is it's very hard to get slime to seal bead leaks because you hardly ever use so much slime, or spin a tractor tire fast enough, that slime ever gets spread all over the bead area to find the spots that are leaking. ![]()
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