Comments on: flat tire in the Philippines http://expatinthephilippines.com/flat-tire-in-the-philippines/ about the life of a Dutch expat who decided to spend the rest of his life in the Philippines Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:04:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jan http://expatinthephilippines.com/flat-tire-in-the-philippines/comment-page-1/#comment-166 Jan Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:32:15 +0000 http://expatinthephilippines.com/?p=1010#comment-166 Dave, Thanks for the explanation Dave,
Thanks for the explanation

]]> By: Dave Starr http://expatinthephilippines.com/flat-tire-in-the-philippines/comment-page-1/#comment-164 Dave Starr Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:00:18 +0000 http://expatinthephilippines.com/?p=1010#comment-164 Yep, different names abound, but the actual process that make auto tire what they are is technically called vulcanizing. The auto as we know it could have never happened .. the pioneers, like Karl Benz in Europe, Dureya brothers and Ransom Olds in the US (all these guys were old men before Henry Ford came along) created workable 'horseless carriages', but the tires of their day .. natural rubber ... could rarely run more than a few hundred kilometers, so the motor cars of their day were just a curiosity or a rich man's toy. Goodyear's "vulcanized' tire was quickly duplicated by John Dunlop and Harvey Firestone and many others and we motorists of the world were off and running. The patches that just use glue are also commonly called 'cold patches' in the US, and there are die hard devotees of both methods. That's one of the things I like about living in the Philippines .. takes me back to my boyhood sometimes. Yep, different names abound, but the actual process that make auto tire what they are is technically called vulcanizing. The auto as we know it could have never happened .. the pioneers, like Karl Benz in Europe, Dureya brothers and Ransom Olds in the US (all these guys were old men before Henry Ford came along) created workable ‘horseless carriages’, but the tires of their day .. natural rubber … could rarely run more than a few hundred kilometers, so the motor cars of their day were just a curiosity or a rich man’s toy.

Goodyear’s “vulcanized’ tire was quickly duplicated by John Dunlop and Harvey Firestone and many others and we motorists of the world were off and running.

The patches that just use glue are also commonly called ‘cold patches’ in the US, and there are die hard devotees of both methods. That’s one of the things I like about living in the Philippines .. takes me back to my boyhood sometimes.

]]> By: Jan http://expatinthephilippines.com/flat-tire-in-the-philippines/comment-page-1/#comment-159 Jan Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:54:05 +0000 http://expatinthephilippines.com/?p=1010#comment-159 Hi Dave, Well, I am not very much interested in cars, that's probably the reason I am not good in automotive as you name it. I am turning sixty soon, so I am not that young anymore. Fact is that I have never seen the term vulcanizing in Europe at car repair shops. What I remember from the old days in Europe is that if someone had a flat tire, just a new inside tube was placed, and if that one was flat it was fixed with some rubber glued on the hole. (maybe a kind of chemical vulcanizing?) Thanks for the explanation anyway. Hi Dave,
Well, I am not very much interested in cars, that’s probably the reason I am not good in automotive as you name it. I am turning sixty soon, so I am not that young anymore.
Fact is that I have never seen the term vulcanizing in Europe at car repair shops. What I remember from the old days in Europe is that if someone had a flat tire, just a new inside tube was placed, and if that one was flat it was fixed with some rubber glued on the hole. (maybe a kind of chemical vulcanizing?)
Thanks for the explanation anyway.

]]> By: Dave Starr http://expatinthephilippines.com/flat-tire-in-the-philippines/comment-page-1/#comment-158 Dave Starr Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:13:49 +0000 http://expatinthephilippines.com/?p=1010#comment-158 Hi Jan, You young guys aren't up on your automotive history. Vulcanizing is the process generally credited to Charles Goodyear which used heat to chemically cure natural rubber so that it could be used to make inflatable tires. Like so many other things common in the Philippines, when I was a boy in the US more than 50 years ago, every quality service station advertised 'Vulcanizing'. There were patches that just were glued on the tire tube (almost all tires had tubes then), or you could go for the deluxe method and have the patch Vulcanized ... with a heated clamp, just as your tire was repaired ... the patch essentially becomes part of the tire itself. In the US it's common today to repair a nail puncture like yours with a rubber plug that is driven into the hole that the nail made, but demounting the tire and Vulcanizing an internal patch is by far the superior way. I know it makes me sound old, but sometimes the old ways are indeed the best. Hi Jan,

You young guys aren’t up on your automotive history.

Vulcanizing is the process generally credited to Charles Goodyear which used heat to chemically cure natural rubber so that it could be used to make inflatable tires.

Like so many other things common in the Philippines, when I was a boy in the US more than 50 years ago, every quality service station advertised ‘Vulcanizing’. There were patches that just were glued on the tire tube (almost all tires had tubes then), or you could go for the deluxe method and have the patch Vulcanized … with a heated clamp, just as your tire was repaired … the patch essentially becomes part of the tire itself.

In the US it’s common today to repair a nail puncture like yours with a rubber plug that is driven into the hole that the nail made, but demounting the tire and Vulcanizing an internal patch is by far the superior way.

I know it makes me sound old, but sometimes the old ways are indeed the best.

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