gf beranek
Old Schooler
And it was a lot cleaner than I assumed.
Tie regrooving
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woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
The tire groover that I saw the crane op using, was cutting rather narrow grooves, on the order of 1/8" wide. Are grooves that narrow very effective? There was certainly a lot of extra rubber on those large tires.
Al Smith
Mac Daddy
The ones I saw back in the day only cut maybe 3/16" wide .With say racing slicks the tires were grooved to match track conditions .Any praticular sprint car might carry a dozen different tires .
Steve Mack
Life Member.
This one is similar to the one I mentioned I used earlier, you can get blades up to about 1/2".
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Steve Mack
Life Member.
That's weird it won't let me embed again.
20 second video. Grooving tires for traction. http://youtu.be/iir0ZXJvQdo
20 second video. Grooving tires for traction. http://youtu.be/iir0ZXJvQdo
woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
Reddog
TreeHouser
Here in the US, all positions can be regrooved.
It is mainly done for over the road trucks to get another 20-30K of tire life.
Once regrooved the casing is to thin to use for recaps.
Seems to be the current thinking on the practice. http://fleetowner.com/equipment/tiretracks/fleet_resist_temptation
I think in our trade, regrooving would serve little help. We need more traction than most OTR trucks.
