Posted by ScottyHOMEy on February 12, 2009 at 13:34:17 from (71.241.192.17):
In Reply to: Re: Rims posted by Farmall Bob on February 12, 2009 at 13:15:51:
You'd have to get them off to do a repair from the inside anyway, so by all means do and have a look around to see just what you're dealing with.
What you want to avoid is a glass and putty repair on any structural or working part. It's fine for the rotted bottoms of battery boxes and other tin, but not for anything that carries any load or stress.
Sheet metal isn't going to be much better than glass as a patch. I wouldn't use either to patch a hole right through a rim, and especially not if it is anywhere near the beads.
And if you do go to weld anything on a rim, at the very least you need to have the valve cores out of the stem on your tube or tubeless stem. Can you say boom!?!?
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