REFLECTOR: New Topic: Nitrogen filled tires

[Chuck Jensen]

Wow, Jeff, you definitely would flunk the 'up selling' class at the Firestone dealers seminar.
 
Chuck Jensen 
 
 
 
 -----Original Message-----
From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org]On Behalf Of Jeff Clough
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 4:26 PM
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: New Topic: Nitrogen filled tires



The outside (which incidentally is in contact with oxygen) of the tire and tread will wear out long before the INSIDE of the tire due to oxygen reactions.....also, as the tire goes flat due to oxygen leaking (or reacting )the tire becomes higher in nitrogen concentration.....refill it with air a couple of times and for all intents and purposes it will be very near 100% nitrogen after a refill or two!    DON"T buy it!   
jc

aminetech at bluefrog.com wrote: 

No, but I have heard that nitrogen does not "leak" out the tube as does oxygen.  Seems a bit strange since the oxygen molecule is a bit larger than nitrogen.  I think what really happens is that oxygen, being a highly reactive substance (we tend not to think of it that way since we live in it all the time), likely reacts with the rubber tube, thereby disappearing.  So nitrogen lasts longer and does not degrade the rubber if that is significant.
 
John

--- SlvEgl99 at aol.com wrote:

From: SlvEgl99 at aol.com
To: reflector at tvbf.org
Subject: REFLECTOR: New Topic: Nitrogen filled tires
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:28:16 EDT



 
Has anyone any experience with inflating tires with nitrogen instead of normal air?
 
Robert Wood
 


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