Another inner tube destroyed

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    If I puncture again would it be a bad idea to take the wheel off and the rim tape and get some sand paper and sand all around the area that keeps puncturing the inner tube? I really cant afford new wheels yet! :(
  • feel
    feel Posts: 800
    willhub wrote:
    If I puncture again would it be a bad idea to take the wheel off and the rim tape and get some sand paper and sand all around the area that keeps puncturing the inner tube? I really cant afford new wheels yet! :(

    Sand paper is for wood not metal and will just leave loads of bits of sand there. You really need a small round file or at worst wet and dry paper.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    feel wrote:
    willhub wrote:
    If I puncture again would it be a bad idea to take the wheel off and the rim tape and get some sand paper and sand all around the area that keeps puncturing the inner tube? I really cant afford new wheels yet! :(

    Sand paper is for wood not metal and will just leave loads of bits of sand there. You really need a small round file or at worst wet and dry paper.

    My dad used his grinder, should of cleaned it before putting it on, then put rim tape back on and another rim tape over that, should not go down now I hope!.
  • Campy King
    Campy King Posts: 201
    How did you get on??
  • Campy King
    Campy King Posts: 201
    How did you get on??
  • Campy King
    Campy King Posts: 201
    How did you get on??
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Well, so far so good, it stayed up all night, got to college and its still up, just gotta hope it stays up on the way home too, allthough it seems abit low, like the pump was showing 120PSI but when I sit on it you can sort of see the tyre at side of rims (hard to explain for me), that shows it may be underinflated so going to just take it to halfords tonight if it stays up and tell them to put their pump on it and check if it is at 120PSi (Something someone at halfords should easilly be able to do)

    Going to get a helmet and hand pump too as on saturday going into york hopefully to join a cycling club!

    I am abit paranoid though now I always think the tyres are going down.
  • oldwelshman
    oldwelshman Posts: 4,733
    Get a good frame fitting pump, the way you go through tubes you will need it :D
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    I dont plan on going through tubes this often!, I will get a spare tube though.

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