On 08/24/05 09:37 am Red Cloud© tossed the following ingredients into
the ever-growing pot of cybersoup:

A further
step would be to learn how to plug a flat tire from the outside with a
kit.

Didn't know that was possible. Please explain.

Buy a tubeless tire plug kit. Very inexpensive. Consists of a tool
which resembles an awl with a slot in the pointy end, a couple of
cylinder shaped rubber plugs, and a tube of cement. Tread the plug
through the slot in the tool and coat it with cement. Yank out the
nail you ran over, and quickly shove the plug into the hole. The tool
is designed so that once the plug is inserted, you can work the tool
free and pull it out, leaving the plug in place. It's not a permanent
repair either. You will still need to go to a repair shop and have a
patch applied on the inside. The problems with plugs is that sometimes
they can work their way out, and sometimes they get cut in half by the
wire mesh used in layers of the tire tread.

I've read that steel-belted radials *must not be* plugged.

Perce