Posted by ScottyHOMEy on February 12, 2009 at 12:13:07 from (71.241.192.17):
In Reply to: Rims posted by Farmall Bob on February 12, 2009 at 11:42:58:
Any good repair is going to require some welding and patching to 1) be safe and 2) hold up to the strain if the tractor does any work.
A fiberglass patch on the inside and bondo to fill the hole will probably keep your tube inside the rim and look nice, but is about like puttying in the cracks and painting a wooden ladder.
If you've got pencil-size holes, the metal around them in going to be weak too and really needs replacing to do it right. A weak enough rim with enough weight or strain on it will collapse or crush itself, with all the attendant troubles, and fiberglass isn't gong to do anything for strength on a steel rim.
If your holes are localized, like from calcium damage (around the valve stems is common, you can weld patches from a third rim into them. DickL posted some nice pics of such a job on, I think, some Allis wheels a month or six weeks ago over on Tractor Talk.
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