The shellac on tyres is new to me as well. I remember when the vulcanization style patches came out; everyone thought that was a Godsend.
I worked at one shop where I pulled a tube out of on old bike and was stunned at the amount of vulc patches on the tube; there were 23!!!
I too took many shellackins as a youngster. Most of mine came at the dinner table. My parents would make us eat a portion of vegetables every night or we could not leave the table. We used to shovel them all into the sides of our cheeks and then go spit them out in the toilet. When my Dad caught onto this, it was all over. We had to open our mouths so that he could check that we actually swallowed the food. This often created chaos as my brother often regurgitated his veggies or flat out threw-up on his plate. I was caught transferring a wad of corn into my napkin one time.
My Dad would smack me upside the head for all of these silly dinner antics and one night I attacked him, pulled his glasses off, and started throwing blows into the air. He quickly wrestled me down and spanked my pale white ass candy apple red! Then my Mom was screaming at him, and my Sister was crying from the commotion.
We had a lot shellacin' in Church too. We would start laughing about something and my Dad would promptly strong-arm us out of the Church and commence to trying to slap us around. I could never take church seriously because here we were praising the Lord, shaking people's hands and saying "Peace be with you," receiving Communion, etc, only to get home and be right back at square one: "Eat those veggies or you're gonna get it!!!"
Ted E. Baer
I think I'm done for the night.
Palo Alto, CA
> Seems they put that stuff on everything--fishing
> floats---carburator floats---head gaskets---and I
> took
> a shellackin or two myself!
> sam,rim brakes and wood wheel should never be used
> in
> the same sentence,lingo
> pleasanton tx
>
> --- Geoff Duke <G.Duke@civenv.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>
> > I am not old enough to have used this method of
> > fixing tyres to rims but am
> > old enough to remember seeing others use it.First
> of
> > all it was only used
> > on track wheels as shellac dries hard and has no
> > residual sticky-ness.This
> > makes it pretty hard to apply a spare out on the
> > road and believe that it
> > will stay on as you round the next bend.Most track
> > riders had a spare pair
> > of wheels with them track side so a change of
> wheel
> > got them going for the
> > next race.The stuff used was available from french
> > polishing suppliers or
> > hardware shops and came in the form of flakes.I
> have
> > always been led to
> > believe that it was made from beetles of some
> > sort.The flakes were mixed up
> > with methylated spirits until they dissolved and
> the
> > mixture applied to
> > both the tyre and the rim.If the rim was brand new
> > it needed to be roughed
> > up a little to encourage adhesion.The rim was
> coated
> > once and left to
> > dry,often overnight.Then both the rim and the tyre
> > were coated and the tyre
> > applied to the rim.The tyre was then pumped up
> hard
> > and set aside for 24
> > hours to set.Shellac being what it is this was a
> > messy process and the
> > stuff dries really hard on both rim and tyre so
> any
> > excess on the rim
> > needed to be cleaned carefully with metho before
> > this happened.Of course
> > the fact that the rims never saw brake blocks
> meant
> > that this was about
> > looks as much as anything.Hope this helps,
> > Geoff Duke in Melbourne Australia
> >
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