Posted by Roger - Ks on November 25, 2007 at 20:25:02 from (4.244.186.110):
In Reply to: powder in tires? posted by bweb on November 25, 2007 at 19:07:18:
What you have is almost unheard of any more. It is called Liquid Lead. It came in 3 different weights. 12 lbs. to the gallon. 20 lbs & 30 lbs to the gallon. It will flow very easily. If you splash water on it, the water will bead up and roll around after it is coated with the Lead. Not sure what it's made of and haven't seen one of the Lead pumps for over 30 years. There should be a cap on the tube about 1 inch in diameter with a normal valve stem in the middle. The the Lead was pumped in through the 1 inch opening.
The theory was that a tire with water would have friction from the water staying on the bottom of the tire as it turned. Liqiud Lead was pumped in until it completly filled the tire and was supposed to have less power loss.
The real problem was just as you are describing - no one wants to work with it. We bought a tractor with Lead in the tires in the early 70's. It took all day just to get the Lead out of one of the back tires so it could be repaired. We couldn't find a pump and left the Lead out. We then spent another day cleaning out the other tire. For the next 2 weeks we spent every other day cleanig Lead out of the tires. It would settle to the bottom of the tube when the tractor was stopped at the end of the day and settle to the bottom and cause the tire to be out of balance. When you turned a corner and the tires got out of synce it would almost throw you off the tractor tossing you from side to side. I took 3 years to get the tubes clean. Looking back we should have thrown the tubes away and bought new ones.
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