Solid Tires for Touchless Machines

[bigleo48]

Guys,

We have an M5 and use the same tires/tube/rims as most of the other machines.

Have any of you ever found or used a solid tire (no tube, but foam like filling in it's place)?

Cheers...BigLeo

 

[jprb]

I don't know about the car wash application, but there is a foam-like filling that I've seen used in construction equipment tires that keeps them from going flat. I does make them into a "solid" tire and prevents them from going flat. It is available at a local tire store, so you should be able to find it readily. It does add a lot of weight to the tires on a bobcat. I don't know if weight would be a factor on the car wash machines.

JPRB

 

[PEI]

Guys,

We have an M5 and use the same tires/tube/rims as most of the other machines.

Have any of you ever found or used a solid tire (no tube, but foam like filling in it's place)?

Cheers...BigLeo

We have been trying a solid tire for our laserwashes. In the year that we have been running them, they have performed near flawless. We did find that when the temperature got close to 0 degrees F, the rims shrank enough to spin without the tire. We have since screwed the tires to the rim and solved the problem. We get ours from a laserwash operator in Georgia named Jammie. If your interested in ordering some from him then email me and I will send you his phone number.