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Updated: May 3, 2025
All this can be done with the wheel jacked up, but if resting on the tire as suggested, the valve-stem is protected during the efforts to loosen tire. To put on a single-tube tire properly, the rim should be thoroughly cleaned with gasoline, and the new tire put on with shellac or cement, or with simply the lugs to hold.
A single-tube shower-bath attachment of the simplest sort is a lot better than none, and need not cost over 50 cents. The more adaptable kind, with two ends, will be found ticketed at about $2. Thence up to the elaborate fittings at $250 there are many variations.
Heavy and clumsy as are the large single-tube tires, it is quite practicable to carry an extra one, though we did not. One is pretty sure to have punctures, though two in twenty-six hundred miles are not many. Nearly an hour was spent at South Bend; the river road, following the trolley line, was taken to Elkhart.
Our highways both in and out of cities are filled with things that cut, and bristle with wire-nails. The heavy American single-tube tire holds out quite well; it gets many deep cuts and takes nails like a pin-cushion, but comparatively few go through. The weight of the tire makes it rather hard riding, very hard, indeed, as compared with a fine Michelin.
While waiting the next morning, we jacked up the wheel and removed the damaged tire. It is not easy to remove quickly and put on heavy single-tube tires, and a few suggestions may not be amiss. The best tools are half-leaves of carriage springs. At any carriage shop one can get halves of broken springs.
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