screw in tire plug ?

Ya me also. I'm almost 66 and regular plugs for me. This summer my wife and I went to NFLD for 2 weeks and had to plug my rear tire before leaving the boat.. 15 min and gone. I also carry a small air compressor that plugs into a cigarette socket... Start the bike and idle b4 u use a compressor.. be bad luck if u drained the battery then your bike would not start
 
Do those take a philips or JIS bit? :biggrin: Every year I buy new gummy worms and the rubber cement for patching inner tubes (makes pushing the worm into the tire easier). And I've used them twice on my bikes and cars in the last 50 years or so. Loading the cars and bikes with my tire kit, compressor, jump starter, and tool kit seems to ward off gremiins. What more could I ask?
 
just a philips.. I ha had trouble getting the hole reamed out big enough once. Fortunately i was home and had access to a drill .
I have also had dried out glue..
 
yeah a couple times I have tried to plug a car tire that was punctured by a rather small nail like a finishing nail for trim wood floor molding and such and I couldn't do it because the giant fat worm was just not going to fit into that little hole even after I supposedly reamed it out with the tool that came in the kit. So when this happened in or around my house, I actually used a drill to drill out the hole and make it a little bigger .
 
The one & only time a kit like that was used on my motorcycle tire, a guy stopped to help me he saw me getting out my little $6 Walmart tire plug kit, and he happened to work for a tire shop and he had his work truck full of tools there!

He reamed out the puncture hole with a much higher quality tool than I had.

Though it seemed like he did everything right, that plug still leaked ( slowly). I did finish the day's riding with it, but I had to have that motorcycle tire replaced a few weeks later .
 
Those screw in plugs look like an answer to a question nobody asked to me. The gummy worms have worked fine for me for decades now. Further, gummy worms better accommodate irregularly shaped holes. I doubt round molded plugs and those screw in ones can really do that.
 
The difficulty I have is the taper to a screw in plug, with the tire flexing during use and the mismatch of rubber compounds I cannot picture them doing anything but working loose. Chances are the tire will go flat before it comes out....I think.
If anybody has had a rapid air loose at speed, this is spooky at best. When it fails it would be spectacular
 
So it's a rubber plug. Not likely to cause any damage to anyone else should it be spit out. Unless it puts an eye out. Maybe. But does it "stick" at all? It doesn't appear to bond with the tire at all. Yeah I could see it working loose and elevate an issue to a real problem.

To be fair it could be used to temporarily and quickly get me to a safe place where I could replace it with a gummy worm or two. Those I view as a permanent fix. I put a few in car tires and they "lived" a long life until the tire was worn to the bars. On a bike maybe I'd be tempted to have it patched internally. Maybe.
 
The reason they don't repair auto tires near the side wall is because of the flex in the tire. motorcycle tires are the corner of auto tires all the way across.
They are made to flex at all times across the whole tread, which is why the plugs are called temporary fixes, how they are used is up to the operator and their responsibility. mostly we get away with it. I do not hear of their failures although I doubt the failure would be bragged about much and would probably show up immediately during the process
The condition of the repair depends on how well it is done, also by the material being used.
Most flats are not blow outs like auto or truck, they leak slow and give a lot of warning before being flat. We as motorcyclists tend to watch the bikes condition closer than cagers so we will be ok either way.
The plugs I have are umbrella shaped so once they are in they stay in, never even heard of one working deeper into the tire.
That screw looks spooky for working out.


Which makes me wonder, How come loose screws and bolts always work loose, but never tighten. I have seen the loose ones but they aren't tighter when I go back to look and tighten
 
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