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Thanks, one of the few times I've not read through an 85 page thread before posting. Any suggestion as to a source of replacement tape? I might try peeling it off a NOS Wolber tub I have with a damaged tread and re-using it on the Conti.
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Any suggestion as to a source of replacement tape? I might try peeling it off a NOS Wolber tub I have with a damaged tread and re-using it on the Conti.
Sounds a lot easier than it is. I've found basetape to horribly distort when pulled from an old tyre. It is enough of a challenge gluing a section of old basetape down on its own tyre. Removing it and transplanting it onto another tyre, I suspect, would be close to impossible. Can't see how one could get it flat and straight. Instead I'd try to find some a suitable new unsized raw cotton strip and use it. The main function of the basetape is to cover the stitches and protect the sidewalls from chafing against the rim. With something like a Conti Sprinter I'd not bother. It is neither rare nor expensive. Given that a brandnew one costs arond 30 EUROs the repair seems hardly "cost effective". Now repairing the NOS Wolber-- depending, of course, upon which model-- might make a lot more sense. Dugast used to put new treads on tyres-- when he started off he was using a lot of the old Wolber casings. Tyres like the FMBs are afterall reincarnations of the Wolber of old.
EdwardZ
I've written about his more than a few times.... Quick summary.. Need to use a water and solvent proof glue that is both elastic and stronger than the glue used to attach the basetape to rim. Typical choices are liquid latex (an emulsion of latex disolved in ammonium), latex based glue (Henkel's Copydex in the UK), Roberts carpet glue (US),... industrial fabric adhesives.
You need to remember that the bond between tyre and rim is defined by the weaknest of the two bonds: basetape to rim or tyre to basetape. For road use the bond between basetape and rim needs to be not just elastic but also sticky (allowing for renewed contact adhesion). The bond between the basetape and tyre should never be sticky.