People are insane. What was the deal, someone said that a piece of
rubber from a tire that blew up with only, I don't know, thirty or forty
pounds, took out a car window. I think there's a lesson there but what
do I know.
Just to add a little of the ponderable stuff for the many "naysayers"
on the tire being Extreeeeemely dangerous. Let's explore what we're
dealing with.
Basically the 100# of pressure would be pretty high but we'll use that
as the example. That number is meant as PSI, or pounds of pressure per
square inch. I am not even the mathematician type, but I can look at a
tire/tyre, and see there is more than one square inch of
surface,................on the outside, that gives me a feel for the
inside area also.
Noting all that was said in the previous paragraph, poorly structured
as it is, I can plainly tell there's a bit more than 10 square inches
of area on the average wheel barrow tire/tyre ( A HUGE AMOUNT MORE )
At Just 10 square inches, the PSI stated above, 100PSI, is now applied
evenly accross all of the area of the tire...............comes to an
awe inspiring 1000pounds of pressure over that small stated area.Just
10 Square inches! Amazing.
I have never seen a tire so small, not even on a bicycle. So imagine
what the area inside of a typical 205/95r15 would be and apply the
same principal at a mere 32-45PSI. We'll use the area of the surface
for our experiment no sidewall calculation in the
area...........watch..............
If the tire is a 205, that's tread width. We'll convert that metric
number of mm to inches .........let's see...........8.1in.
then we can figure the height of the tire at 95% width per sidewall,
.............there's two of those...........let's
see..........7.695in., and don't forget, two of those, makes it
15.39in. plus the rim size of 15in. equals..........ok30.39in hieght
on the tire/tyre.
Now we can figure the circumference (the easy way for me is Pi =3.14)
diameter mutiplied by radius is circumference( If I remember
correctly).............so 3.14 times 30.39 = 95.42...........roughly.
this is just to make a point, not to be a math wizard.........so we
move on..................our 95.42 is the circumference of the
tire/tyre, now we need to multiply that by the width of the tread,
which as we calculated earlier from metric to inches, was 8.1
inches...........that leaves us with a number close to 773 square
inches............a bunch more than the 10 inches of area we had
before. lets use a small number for the pressure calculation here.
Let's say we like a pretty mushy, ride, not too sporty, we run 30 psi
(of course that'll ruin our tire/tyre pretty quick, but once again
this is just for fun) The big picture is coming into focus now, No?
773 square inches area JUST ON THE TREAD AREA, at 30 PSI is now
calculated to.............23190 pounds of pressure total!..........A
Huge Amoount of pressure ! Every 1 Psi adds another 773 pounds of
pressure looking for a weak spot.............capiche?
I know you can at least use a calculator to check my math. So go
ahead.........it's not exact, but it is *very* representative.
I think there are many crazy folks out there too. Try not to take it
too seriously though, cause some of them crazy *******s are WAY RIGHT
in their fears of power............be it electric, be it air, be it
water, be it politiical, be it any type of power, it is all the same
stuff...........POWER.............to be reckoned with for sure, all of
it.
I can go on if this doesn't make much of an impresion.
You should calculate the inside of an airplane at
14.47psi.............HOLY COW!
However, the lesson to be learned should be apparent.
(all of this post was made with a toungue and cheek type of feeling,
not to be anything more than informative and fun )
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