MarathonMike
Diamond Member
Oh yeah, some of those retread pieces are huge and cause wrecks.And recaps come with a set of scary hazards of their own.
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Oh yeah, some of those retread pieces are huge and cause wrecks.And recaps come with a set of scary hazards of their own.
One tire of 18 in the winter is no issue.
They are built to be regrooved.
If this was summer, I'd worry a little about heat causing a blowout...but that isn't going to happen in the cold months.
Those two tires cost about the same as having a transmission replaced in a standard passenger car...$600 plus each.
No. Big no-no to regroove or even repair a nail puncture in a steer tire.those big rigs got a lot of duplicate tires. I would think you don’t do the two front tires on the Truck do you?
That's a really good idea.It's called siping if I remember correctly.
I've never done it to my tires but I've heard of people who do.
The only treads I've recut were on a pair of Crocs. When they get slick they're slippery as all get out.
I used a table saw and it worked great,it doubled the life of the shoe.
We have a Bandag in southeastern Missouri...and some of my buddies swear by them.I worked in a recap shop in the early 70s. Cold Caps--Bandag. I have to admit, I have never heard of regroovable. Here in the NW, they "sipe" tires to provide better snow and ice traction, but that is the closest thing I've ever seen to what you are doing. Siping is a much finer cut though. The wear you show with the tread still acceptable in the center is due to underinflation or possibly alignment and rotation. Very interesting, thanks for the post.
Unless the law has changed since my recap days, you can't run a hot cap on steering tires either.No. Big no-no to regroove or even repair a nail puncture in a steer tire.
That's a really good idea.
I think I'm going to try that.
Cold caps can be mfr. incorrectly. They basically are just gluing a 3/4" thick slab of hard rubber tread around the casing and curing it in a pressure chamber under what is considered low heat.We have a Bandag in southeastern Missouri...and some of my buddies swear by them.
Recap rubber is harder than virgin, so on spread axle trailers they last significantly longer.
I had that bad experience...but for all I know, some road debris deflated that tire causing a heat related blowout that had nothing to do with it being a recap.
I won't run them. Tried them once ... Did $5,800 worth of damage to a trailer from the blowout.
The tread separated from 80% from the casing in a long strip ... but the end of that strip stubbornly remained attached long enough for an excellent physics demonstration of the destructive power of angular momentum.
It was covered by insurance...but I was down a trailer for over a month.
I only went a 1/16 deep which left another 1/16 before breaking through into the shoe.
I'd imagine it would work on any soft soled shoe.
I would hazard a guess that 90% of the gators you see on the road are peeled hot caps. I lost three of them in one night going up I-5 the night they opened the stretch north of the grapevine in 1972. No cops and over 100 mph in the summer creates a lot of heat over a long distance, LOL. I had two spares, but when the third one went, I was stuck with my thumb. I haven't ever seen a cold cap fail but I've heard of a few.I had that bad experience...but for all I know, some road debris deflated that tire causing a heat related blowout that had nothing to do with it being a recap.
I can't even adequately express my disappointment in finding out you wear crocs.
Gimme that man card, dammit!
I watched it...they are regrooving bald car tires.donut.media covered this
Ok what did Sandro sayI watched it...they are regrooving bald car tires.
Doesn't matter. I'm doing a regroovable semi tire. I would not use a regroover to extend the life of a car tire... only to add additional tread for traction or water displacement purposes for some special applications like driving in extreme winter weather or off roading.Ok what did Sandro say
You didn't read the thread did you.You cheap bastard. Go buy some new tires!!
I skimmed parts of it.You didn't read the thread did you.
There's more to the story than the headline.