I think maybe my acupunture analogy was a good one. Either the recommended procedure is sheer BS, or it it is the result of interlayer differences in viscosity, variabale viscosity gradient, if you want to be grandiose, so complex that to do a proper engineering analysis is so complex and expensive that nothing in the cycling world could ever justify the required resources. Tufo looks better every second.
Regards,
Jerry Moos Big Spring, TX
John Betmanis <johnb@oxford.net> wrote:
At 05:37 PM 8/31/06 -0700, Jerome & Elizabeth Moos wrote:
>Thanks. This certainly is specific. Now whether this procedure is based
on science or perception is difficult to say. Particularly puzzling that
he says one can apply glue to many tires at once and store the ones not
used immediately for an unspecified period. Difficult to understand what
function a completely dried layer of glue serves.
>
It's actually a 6-part paper. This is the link to all the sections:
http://www.engr.ku.edu/
Anyway, as to why one thick layer on, say, just the tire, won't work like thinner layers, one on the tire and one on the rim, I think the answer lies in one's definition of "dried". Tubular glue does not dry completely, at least not in the time he's talking about. There is some slight tackiness there, same as dried rubber cement. That is what sticks the one layer of glue to the other.
John Betmanis
Woodstock, ON
Canada