Tire painting

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:32:44 +0300, "g n p"
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Well, not the whole tire, just a stipe to find the valve stem.

Anyone have any wisdom on the effects of paint on tires, paint you
absolutely shouldn't use, etc?

I would guess exterior latex house paint would be harmless to tires
and would last a while, but since I just put on tires, I hate to guess.

--
Jim Pennino


It was my understanding that the stripe spanning tire and rim was to check
for tire slippage ON the rim which would imply stress in the valve-inner
tube join.

Well what I was thinking about is that my Warrior's wheel pants make
the tire valve difficult to find. When I need to check tire pressure,
which is regularly, I push or pull the airplane a few feet and then
walk to the side to see if the valve is in sight. Repeat until the
valve is accessible. The nose tire is worse since the valve can be on
either side and that changes whenever the nose tire is flipped to even
wear.

I'm thinking that instead of a stripe from the valve along the
sidewall, a simple index mark visible from the nose would be more
useful. On the main gear, a small dot on the inside of the tire might
be sufficient. And a white mark would be most visible from the snout,
which is where you're usually standing to push or pull the airplane.

The more I think about this idea, the better I like it. It could save
me a lot of time.

RK Henry

RK Henry wrote:
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:32:44 +0300, "g n p"
wrote:

wrote in message
...

Well, not the whole tire, just a stipe to find the valve stem.

Anyone have any wisdom on the effects of paint on tires, paint you
absolutely shouldn't use, etc?

I would guess exterior latex house paint would be harmless to tires
and would last a while, but since I just put on tires, I hate to guess.

--
Jim Pennino


It was my understanding that the stripe spanning tire and rim was to check
for tire slippage ON the rim which would imply stress in the valve-inner
tube join.

Well what I was thinking about is that my Warrior's wheel pants make
the tire valve difficult to find. When I need to check tire pressure,
which is regularly, I push or pull the airplane a few feet and then
walk to the side to see if the valve is in sight. Repeat until the
valve is accessible. The nose tire is worse since the valve can be on
either side and that changes whenever the nose tire is flipped to even
wear.

I'm thinking that instead of a stripe from the valve along the
sidewall, a simple index mark visible from the nose would be more
useful. On the main gear, a small dot on the inside of the tire might
be sufficient. And a white mark would be most visible from the snout,
which is where you're usually standing to push or pull the airplane.

The more I think about this idea, the better I like it. It could save
me a lot of time.

RK Henry

That's the problem with the Tiger.

The only way to see the one on the nose wheel is to lie on the ground.

I just got back from Pep Boys with a tire pen and am going to put a
stripe on the side of the tire.

--
Jim Pennino

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I had marks on my tires (changed tires and haven't gotten around to
replacing the marks) on my PA32. I marked the tires with 1 dot at the
valve stem if it is at 12 oclock, 2 dots at 3 oclock, 3 dots at 6 oclock
and 4 dots at 9 oclock so that I could always tell where the stem was
relative to the ground before I moved the airplane (at least one set of
marks is always visible below the fairing). From that I know about how
far and which way I need to push the airplane to get the valve stem at
the bottom without having to watch the wheel as I push. I just used a
yellow paint my A&P had in the shop. the tire marker sounds like a
better choice.

Ray Andraka wrote:

I had marks on my tires (changed tires and haven't gotten around to
replacing the marks) on my PA32.

This whole thing reminds me of when I worked at the local NASCAR track.
Everyweek we'd "paint the tires", that is, put a dab of paint on the
tires as the cars qualified so we knew they started the race with the
same tires. Now the teams with money ran new tires every week, but
some had lots of dots on their tires. I asked the track promoter
where he got all the different colors of paint (we switched every
week) and he said he just goes to Home Depot to that clearance rack
of mismixed paint colors and grabbed a bunch of those periodically
at a buck a can. The colors were never really duplicatable :-)