Posted: 8/12/2005 11:44:08 AM EDT
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I was trying to resurect a wheel barrow tire from the trash with some Fix A Flat. The tire was dry rotted and I figured what the hell, so i attached the Fix A Flat as per instructions and mashed the button. The hose blew off of the can and sprayed my upper body with the solution. It even got into my eyes. Good thing that I was at home and not out on the side of a road. I washed the stuff off and flushed my eyes. The eyes stung a bit and the stuff irritated my skin a bit but not too bad. I was so sweaty that the stuff couldn't cling very good I think. Be careful with this stuff. If it can happen to me, it could happen to one of you! I emailed the company and warned them about the problem. |
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i leaves a MESS for them to clean up on the rim and the gas is flammable. last time we took Camp ninjas camper to the camden shoot we had a flat on the camper. went' through 3 cans of FAF with the tube. ALL of them broke before the tire filled. we finall got a different brand without the shitty tube and it worked fine. |
Isn't that the whole idea of putting the stuff in your tire originally? To FIX-A-FLAT? |
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These guys have a great product. Link or for those computer savvy http://www.ride-on.com/index.html |
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I remember seeing a documentary set in the Arctic once, and the guys actually put a new uninflated tire around a rim, then filled the tire with propane. They then threw a match into the propane filled tire, and in the process of exploding, the tire inflated and grabbed onto the rim. It was strange, but instantly inflated right around the rim with a loud ping. |
O.K., who'll be the first idiot here to try that out? Poll coming! |
thats good stuff. i use slime in my bike tubes. i am told that stuff and slime will corrode alluminum wheels though. |
 Idiot here.....I've done that a coupla times to reseat tractor tires. Never used propane, WD40 works pretty good. Ya get a big "WHOOMP" sound and that's about it. |
That is SOP on a farm or for 4 wheel drive types except they use starting fluid/either. |
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I usually keep one can in the car, but have only actually used the product in an old, dry-rotted snowblower tire. I think the cans the last few years were supposed to be made with a non-flammable propellent, but the old ones could be dangerous, I suppose. Glad you're ok. |
WD40, CRC556, any aerosol lube, starting fluid etc will do that. I do it all the time. It is how we used to mount truck tires before the invention of the OSHA approved blast can which is basically a small tank charged by a compressor with a ball valve that allows you to "blast" air into the unseated tire and thereby seat it. I still prefer the light it and run way though. However, if there is a hole in the tire, it will keep burning. Also works on riding mowers etc w/tubeless tires. |
Spelling corrected.... |
Yep, we did that at Discount quite often back in the day for huge tires. |
Thanks! I can die happy now. 
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We were out at the sand dunes one time when a friend of mine lost his tire pressure and then lost the bead. We sprayed some ether starting fluid around the inside of the rim and lit it. A loud "whump" was definatly audible. Saved us two hours of walking. |
A customer brought his SUV tire into my freshly waxed and polished showroom the other day. He had a hole in the sidewall you could stick your thumb through and the bead had come off the rim. He leaned the tire against my counter while I showed him some tire prices on my computer. The tire fell over and nasty cum-colored fix-a-flat splashed out and proceeded to eat the wax off my floor.  He had a hole the size of a quarter in his sidewall and he thought fix-a-flat was going to seal it!  |
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YOU"RE TELLING ME!!! Last summer I put some of that green slime into my kids bike tire but it dind't plug the hole. So I put some fix-a-flat into it. it pumped up and worked fine. I was right proud of myself. so we're sitting on the porch watching him ride around and he gets off and starts walking towards us and POW!!!!!! there was this huge pop and a BLIZZARD of green slime. When it hits the air it goes into these stringy things and my poor kid was covered in it. The bike tire was shredded and my kid did this little terror dance. It was great. so don't mix that stuff with green slime. it's dangerous.
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Plugs used to be standard procedure for fixing a flat. I have ridden around on plugs for the life of the tire! I dont think tire shops do this anymore, as they worried about lawsuits.,. |