On 1/29/05 7:24 PM, "Gnarlodious" <gnarlodious@EARTHLINK.NET> wrote:

> While we're on the subject, how about this concept?
> 
> CBS News | Airless Tires? Consider The Tweel | January 27, 2005�21:00:08
> <http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/27/eveningnews/main669888.shtml>
> 
> -- Gnarlie
> 
> 
There is an Australian company that was doing some work with a filled tire
concept.  Would like to see that hit passenger vehicles but is primarily
being used for heavy equipment trucks and stuff like that.  The tire is
mounted on the rim and then an expanding compound is injected.  The stuff
expanded out and filled a large portion of the air space and after curing
was as hard as rubber.  The tire was spun as the stuff expanded so you still
had about 20 percent of the air space at the rim side.  They said that it
had problems with passenger tires over about 40 mph.  Almost impossible to
balance.

Havent seen anything on it since the announcements on the product about
three years ago.

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