Many years ago, back in 1980 I was a Golf Cart Dealer.
I used an International truck with just one single axle under a 40 foot bed.
This rig was marginal for transporting 18 golf carts.
It had a real bad habit of blowing rear tires because of the overloading
factor (I really needed another axle with the 4 additional tires)
When I blew a tire I often continued on the remaining inner or outer tire
for some miles before I stopped to have the tire replaced.
Every time I drove into a truck stop or tire dealer with that remaining tire
smoking from the heat they accused me of cooking the tube.
Cooking the tube simply means getting the inner tube so hot inside the tire
that it welds to the tire and becomes near impossible to remove the tire.
To demonstrate their point they'd spray the tire and steam would burst forth
from the heat and water stream.
The 212 degrees is a minimum to make steam and once you reach 220 you've
ruined a tire and tube but you can still get the tire off the rim if you get
it dismounted before it cools completely and bonds together as a solid mass.
So there you go that's why I say 220 degrees.
OH! By the way, I've never been compelled to fry a tube on my stove top to
prove my point, but you can if you want.

Stan Wilder
High Performance Ceramic Coatings
www.engineceramics.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Robert Cardo
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 10:06 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Westy fridge combustion chamber gasket replacement

Mr.Wilder,
Please develop on how you came up with the erroneous 220 degree (?)
figure on a truck inner tube.
You had one baking in an oven?
I can hardly wait for the answer.

RC

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