tatest
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GrumpyandGrandma wrote:Wait long enough and you may be able to get the new plastic rims with rubber tread glued on. Don't laugh they're in the testing stage for cars. Understand they are already in use on some construction equipment.
How much construction equipment regularly runs at 70 to 85 mph?
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tatest wrote:GrumpyandGrandma wrote:Wait long enough and you may be able to get the new plastic rims with rubber tread glued on. Don't laugh they're in the testing stage for cars. Understand they are already in use on some construction equipment.
How much construction equipment regularly runs at 70 to 85 mph?
As I said in previous post, they are on cars in SC (Michelin has a plant there) right now being tested on the expressway.
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We used foam filled tires on some industrial equipment many years ago. This equipment ran, at best, at 15 MPH top speed. The ride was very rough, and the tires were (at that time) very difficult to balance. No, we didn't NEED to balance them, but it was an interesting exercise.
However, they completely eliminated the flat tire problem (it is amazing how many little pieces of welding rod a bunch of iron-workers can scatter around! Interestingly, the magnetism in an aluminum reduction plant tends to stand those little chunks of rod on end). Even with a chunk ripped out of the sidewall, the tire did not go flat!
So, expensive, heavy, difficult to balance, but they will not go flat.
Oh, yeah, when you order them, you can specify the "inflation pressure" you want!
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GrumpyandGrandma wrote:tatest wrote:GrumpyandGrandma wrote:Wait long enough and you may be able to get the new plastic rims with rubber tread glued on. Don't laugh they're in the testing stage for cars. Understand they are already in use on some construction equipment.
How much construction equipment regularly runs at 70 to 85 mph?
As I said in previous post, they are on cars in SC (Michelin has a plant there) right now being tested on the expressway.
Michelin is running scrapers, graders, dozers and cranes down the highway at 70-85 mph? Videos please?
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tatest wrote:GrumpyandGrandma wrote:tatest wrote:GrumpyandGrandma wrote:Wait long enough and you may be able to get the new plastic rims with rubber tread glued on. Don't laugh they're in the testing stage for cars. Understand they are already in use on some construction equipment.
How much construction equipment regularly runs at 70 to 85 mph?
As I said in previous post, they are on cars in SC (Michelin has a plant there) right now being tested on the expressway.
Michelin is running scrapers, graders, dozers and cranes down the highway at 70-85 mph? Videos please?
THEY ARE TESTING THEM ON EMPLOYEES CARS!!!
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I'm thinking that there may be two things being discussed here. Foam filled tires, and flexible plastic spoked wheels that just have a thin solid 'tire'. I think Michelin is testing the latter.
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GrumpyandGrandma wrote:Ivylog wrote:Yes, it's $250 to add the foam to your tire. Harder to cut it off the rim than you might think as it's hard to get at the steel in the beads. Michelin has been experminting with the airless tires for a long time and I've yet to see them in actual use???
They're are on cars in SC(testing) as we speak. They had to get a special permit and are only allowed in SC. Search it on U-Tube, There cool and you can buy them right now.
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one thing not mentioned is foam filled tires are VERY heavy off road forklifts use it for two reasons punctures and WEIGHT to counter balance long booms
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I have one on my wheelbarrow. Works great. 
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