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Default "Sliming" aluminum wheels

On Feb 2, 5:45�pm, Steve Barker TB
wrote:
The Reverend Natural Light wrote:

On Jan 31, 12:25 pm, Jim Elbrecht wrote:
I asked my mechanic how bad it was to replace a tire that had been
slimed and he said he didn't care for it.


A mechanic friend got fix-a-flat in his eyes while breaking a bead on
a tire. �He eventually recovered, but he was out of work for a
while.


If you ever use that stuff, be sure to warn anyone who ever works on
the tire.


fix a flat IS some nasty stuff. �It also has ammonia in it. �If it's
been in a tire more than a few hours, the tire interior will most likely
become unrepairable.

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the proper solution is STEEL WHEELS.

Steel rusts so slowly the chance of a leak is very low