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Watched it happen! 6x6 inflated, removed from axle, bang! Nasty broken arm. He was lucky.
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I think one just came off and the wheel halves cocked and blew the other two off. Like I said, I was only on a couple threads and it might have been 3 PSI or something. Just a shot of air to swell the tube. Sure surprised me. Point is, when removing a wheel, you really don't know what's holding the wheel halves together until you've got it apart. Going the other way, when you've just assembled a wheel is a bit different because you've just looked at the bolts and wheel halves etc. It should still be in a cage to inflate but nobody does that except airline shops (unions). The rest of us just trust our eyes on assembly.
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Aww.
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In the Ag business, Lady Luck has no place...it needs to be calculated. Same thing goes for mounting/dismounting tires and tubes. I have many A&P friends and have never heard of deflating our tires before removing them...so do whatever floats your boat. All ten of my big 10" ag airplane tires gets torqued to 150 inch-pounds before I air it up. I didn't get to be 68 because I'm stupid, doncha think? Best, |
Pierre, my initial reply was about safety and not intelligence. After reading the replies in this thread I recognize that my post is from habit of working on high pressure wheel/tire assemblies and probably not as applicable to our smaller tires. I do partially inflate my tires after working on them before putting them back on the axle. Once installed I fully inflate them.
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So I went back to the hangar yesterday, looked at the parts for about 12 seconds, and then put everything together.
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I may be wrong here but I assumed that a 6.00 X 6 wheel is 6? in diameter. 1 PSI on a 6? diameter makes 28 lbs of force on that disk. I think I did the math right??? So the wheel halves would be being pushed apart with a 28 lb force. Or each ?? bolt (4 bolts on the wheel?) would have 7 lbs of tension on them.
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