Tire painting

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:35:02 GMT, wrote:

Well, not the whole tire, just a stipe to find the valve stem.

Anyone have any wisdom on the effects of paint on tires, paint you
absolutely shouldn't use, etc?

I would guess exterior latex house paint would be harmless to tires
and would last a while, but since I just put on tires, I hate to guess.

Interesting idea, especially when I think how much time I've spent
rolling the airplane back and forth trying to find the valve.

Look for a tire lettering pen in an automotive parts store. It's a
paint pen for dressing up the lettering on your tires, so you can
highlight the letters molded on the tires and pretend you spent extra
for white-lettered tires.

A quick look online at Auto Barn's site and also at J.C. Whitney's
site (only because these quickly came to mind as a place to look
online) shows a white tire pen for tire lettering. About 6 bucks.
Should be able to find this item locally.

I suppose you could even highlight the letters on your aircraft tires.
I'm thinking of hanging fuzzy dice from my compass.

RK Henry