If you're talking about the expanding foam stuff that is intended for use
around the house filling holes, gaps, etc., I suspect that it won't work for
your purposes. It gets hard and quite crumbly after it cures. You can
crumble the stuff with your fingers. Thus I suspect that 10 minutes of
running your wheels with any kind of load on them would leave you with tires
full of powder..........well, not exactly "full" as the powder would take up
less space than the insulation did and so the tires would be effectively
flat.
This is just my guess about what would happen.
Mike Frerichs
> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: Making solid core tires
>
>
> OK, I have a few small rubber tires that I wanted to make into "solid
> core"
> tires. They are for implements like a York Rake and mower deck. I have
> NO
> idea why they were designed as pneumatic tires to begin with.
>
> Anyway, when I asked at the tractor supply place, I got quoted a WAY
> higher
> price then the tires are worth.
>
> I was wondering, has anyone ever tried to just fill the tires with the
> foam
> insulation? If so, did it work well?
>
> I was think of getting the low expansion stuff (it would be easier to fill
> the tire completely) an just filling the tire up and letting it harden.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> Moose
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