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Longest wearing 5.50 tires
I need some 5.50 tires and I want Loooong wearing, as the labor is
high. Don't care much about price of the tire. Any suggestions? |
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Michelin
On 13 Aug 2004 02:32:31 -0700, (Doug) wrote: I need some 5.50 tires and I want Loooong wearing, as the labor is high. Don't care much about price of the tire. Any suggestions? |
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You might contact Desser Tire about retreads. A retread generally has
thicker treads, and can use a harder rubber compound. Cheaper, too. Doug wrote: I need some 5.50 tires and I want Loooong wearing, as the labor is high. Don't care much about price of the tire. Any suggestions? |
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I have found the longest wearing tires to be Desser's retreads. They are
the cheapest too. Mike MU-2 Helio Courier "Doug" wrote in message om... I need some 5.50 tires and I want Loooong wearing, as the labor is high. Don't care much about price of the tire. Any suggestions? |
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"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message hlink.net...
I have found the longest wearing tires to be Desser's retreads. They are the cheapest too. Mike MU-2 Helio Courier "Doug" wrote in message om... I need some 5.50 tires and I want Loooong wearing, as the labor is high. Don't care much about price of the tire. Any suggestions? How long is long? |
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YMMV but longer than anything else.
Mike MU-2 "Lou Parker" wrote in message om... "Mike Rapoport" wrote in message hlink.net... I have found the longest wearing tires to be Desser's retreads. They are the cheapest too. Mike MU-2 Helio Courier "Doug" wrote in message om... I need some 5.50 tires and I want Loooong wearing, as the labor is high. Don't care much about price of the tire. Any suggestions? How long is long? |
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A. Agreed, and if you can have somebody save some parTICularly nice casings,
they will retread YOUR casing rather than a random casing. I'm waiting until the local flight school goes through one more Michelin and I'll have a full set of Michelin casings to send down for retread. Then when I get them back, the Goodyear Flight Customs that I've got on there now will go down. B. Watch CAREFULLY if you use them on a retractible gear aircraft. The rubber is just enough thicker that them may jam in the well if it is a particularly tight fit. Jim "Mike Rapoport" shared these priceless pearls of wisdom: -YMMV but longer than anything else. Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup) VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor http://www.rst-engr.com |
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On 15-Aug-2004, Jim Weir wrote:
B. Watch CAREFULLY if you use them on a retractible gear aircraft. The rubber is just enough thicker that them may jam in the well if it is a particularly tight fit. Very true! And if the gear does jam there is no assurance that you will be able to get it down again in flight. Makes for a very expensive tire change. We recently had to change main gear tires on our Arrow. I wanted to consider retreads, but our mechanic nixed it because of the possible wheel well fit problem. -- -Elliott Drucker |
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BUT, though I like retreads the sidewalls have already received a
lifetimes worth of UV exposure. On planes that sit a lot the natural sidewall checking gets worse and worse and can eventually crack through the cord. If you fly a lot and go through a pair of tires in a year it can be a good investment. If the plane wears tires out every 5 years the retread might not be a good investment. rip wrote: You might contact Desser Tire about retreads. A retread generally has thicker treads, and can use a harder rubber compound. Cheaper, too. Doug wrote: I need some 5.50 tires and I want Loooong wearing, as the labor is high. Don't care much about price of the tire. Any suggestions? -- Bruce A. Frank, Editor "Ford 3.8/4.2L Engine and V-6 STOL Homebuilt Aircraft Newsletter" | Publishing interesting material| | on all aspects of alternative | | engines and homebuilt aircraft.| |
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