Audels answers on automobiles, for owners, operators, repairmen ... including chapters on the storage battery, electric vehicles, motor cycles, overhauling the car, etc. Fully illustrated and indexed (1911)
Booth, Charles Edwin, b. 1849 · London, New York, T. Audel & co · leaf 359
effect of dampness on stored tires? Ans. Dampness acts on the fabric far more quickly than water; the latter has the pecuhar faculty of penetrating even the minutest chinks or punctures, and is rapidly absorbed by the fibres composing the tire fabric. Only one result can follow: the fabric will be… … TIRES 333 always be avoided. A tire in use, however, is exposed to an evengraver danger: a cut in the tread of the case tube may admitsand or mud, which, working under the outer layer of rubber, willform a pocket where water may collect and begin work on the fabric.Any sign of a cut or blister,…
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