Tire tread wear vs inflation pressure

Bob Noel wrote in news:ihatessppaamm-
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Be thankful that you have a hangar where you can do that work. For
those of us on a tie-down, it's even more of a pain.

Good quality bicycle tire pump makes short order of this "chore" and I am
in a tie-down area.

I have one in my cargo. It has a pressure gauge on it already so when I
attached the air hose to it, I have a readout.

I am surprised at the other responses. I have only replaced my tires every
other year and I have averaged 200+ hours per year with an average of 300
landings per set.

I check the PSI maybe once every other week. I may lose 3 or 4 pounds PSI
between checks.

I use the garden variety Air Hawk $64.00 tire, nothing fancy.

Allen

In article ,
A Lieberma wrote:

Bob Noel wrote in news:ihatessppaamm-
:

Be thankful that you have a hangar where you can do that work. For
those of us on a tie-down, it's even more of a pain.

Good quality bicycle tire pump makes short order of this "chore" and I am
in a tie-down area.

well, one neat thing about a hangar is that checking the tire pressure
is a fine rainy day activity. And it's generally out of the wind. Plus,
for folks like Jay whose airplane has wheel pants, r/r of the pants
(wheel pants that is) is easier in a hangar than on the flight line.

--
Bob Noel
Looking for a sig the
lawyers will hate

Bob Noel wrote:
In article ,
A Lieberma wrote:


well, one neat thing about a hangar is that checking the tire pressure
is a fine rainy day activity. And it's generally out of the wind. Plus,
for folks like Jay whose airplane has wheel pants, r/r of the pants
(wheel pants that is) is easier in a hangar than on the flight line.

I have hub caps on my plane that must be unscrewed, a royal pain in the
butt. Since its only about 3 feet between the bottom of the wing and
the ground my 6'4" frame doesn't like crawling under there often. Plus,
since I'm retract I worry about getting the pressure wrong.
I would love to find a tire system that didn't require this all the
time.

-Robert