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From: rouil@ada-uts.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: tire inflation pressures (steel
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Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 16:28:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 22 16:28:00 1985
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>***** ada-uts:net.auto / zeus!augustc /  1:06 pm  Jul 19, 1985
>A young gas station attendant was killed in Seattle
>a few years ago when the truck tire he was inflating exploded.

>                                                Augustine C.
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  Hold it, different animals.  As someone who used to have fun ?? putting
air in truck tires (thank God for 18 wheelers :-)), You can't compare
inflating truck tires with inflating car tires.  Car tires have ONE piece
hubs (rims).  The hub is the metal ring thing in the middle of the tire.
Truck tires, or at least the ones I worked with, had TWO piece hubs.
Inflating the tires to normal pressure could make them shoot apart.

     To fill the two piece hubs we dismounted the tires from the trucks,
placed them in a large steel cage hooked up the line and stood back. Stood
way back.

    The case I believe you are talking about was discussed on 60 Minutes.
Personally I would not worry about inflating the tires to max or possibly
5% over the max (I don't avocate this overinflation) but in any case you
would be more likely to have a blowout while driving and not have the tire
blow up in your face.  Those two piece hubs should be banned from the road
in my opinion.


John Rouillard                            Phone:(617) 661-1840
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Cambridge, Ma. 02138                                 inmet!ada-uts!rouil

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