Thread: Tool Identification Odd Clamp

Clean it up nicely and put it into service as a nut cracker. Be the conversation piece at the next barbie.

Regards
John

Originally Posted by Avondale

All those of the age of vulcanising clamps raise your hand

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Originally Posted by NeilS

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Our membership numbers are growing.

Originally Posted by NeilS

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+ 1

Originally Posted by neils

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+1 :d

I was too young for the vulcanizing patches, but knew about those clamps. One of the mechanics from whom I learned this and that swore, with the "new/improved" rubber cement used on patches when I was learning to patch tires, that the bond was improved if you lit off the cement while it was still wet. Made for a great little flame, but I wasn't convinced that it actually did anything useful. I nodded my head when he showed me, but didn't adopt the practice.

I think he was carrying over his understanding of good tire patching practice from what he'd learned about applying the vulcanizing patches.

And, yes, I've got one, somewhere in the rathole; no idea why.

Not quite on the same topic, but I'll raise my hand as also having used those back in my schools days.

Anyway, I got a sidewall puncture in a near new VE Commodore wheel a few years ago. No brand name tyre shop would fix it (can't fix sidewall punctures) , they all wanted to only sell me two new tyres as they also couldn't match the tyre and you have to have the same tyre on the same axle to be roadworthy..... blah blah.

Went around to the local 2nd hand imports tyre shop to maybe find a 2nd hand tyre, but the big guy behind the counter says no problem I can effing fix any effing tyre. The effing tools in the effing other shops can't effing do any effing thing these days.....

1/2 hr later he had pulled the tyre off, gone over the inside of wall with a pneumatic sander. applied a vulcanized repair and had it back on the car. It may not have been roadworthy but it lasted another 35k on the road with a lot of highway driving without incident.

Glad to hear it went well. I was taught never to patch the sidewall of a tire because it will never be as strong as the original, un-punctured sidewall. Sidewalls of tires flex more, or at least differently, than the tread, and there's less structure.