John: Might it not have been better to inject through the tread so the hole you make is bathed with fresh latex by centrifugal action for as long as the stop-leak remains fluid?
Harry Travis Washington, "DC USA
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 10:15 PM, John Thompson <johndthompson@gmail.com>wrote:
> scott davis wrote:
>
>> Can anyone offer some tire sealant opinions. I have a couple of dead 80s
>> Italian Clement Criteriums w/ replaceable valves. I'm not sure if tubes are
>> natural rubber or latex.
>>
>
> FWIW, I recently experimented with injecting sealant into tubulars with
> non-removable valve cores. You can read about it here:
> http://www.bikeforums.net/
>
> So far I've done it on 3 tubulars; all three seem to be holding up fine.
>
> --
>
> -John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
> Appleton WI USA