Construction foam works very well if you aren't doing it to all four tires. My dad has been patching his tires this way for years. It works best if the air is completely gone from the tire and the foam is directly inserted into the air valve so that the rubber isn't cut and the foam has no way to come out.
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I must admit this is by far one of my very favorite channels on RUclips. Thank you so much for making these crazy yet very entertaining videos. I also appreciate that you have English translation. Love and respect big brother! ☝😎👌
We used foam for filling voids in a radioactive landfill. It had (2) 5000 gallon tanks of A/B mixture. Our foam was 30 PSI so that heavy equipment could drive in the cell lifts as they where covered. They said construction foam is normally around 8-12 psi max. We had tons of fun with that gun. A 3second shot would produce enough foam to fill a 55 gallon drum when foam expanded. We filled tyvek suits and had them standing around like workers.
I think I'm going into business exporting & selling expanding foam in Russia & all the other Eastern Block countries that still drive around in Lada cars.
Rickytricky01 I used to own a Chevy monza in 1985, the car was ca. 10 years old, it constantly broke down on me , every week I had to spend part of my paycheck on repairs, sold it and never again owned a American car, only Japanese, iam sure a 40/50 year lada is a better car than my first car, Chevy monza.
TBH trash is trash, the older the car, the worse for us. But man, those japanese cars are so durable. I am talking about 1990s models. You can't break them with normal service and driving.
@@r.j.m4245 Lol. Youre downing American cars after owning a POS lol. No offense. Nowadays, they are pretty reliable. My 5.7 Hemi will NEVER give up on me, and its literally the easiest engine you can work on. My Chevy avalanche, also wont give up on me. Thing has 208k miles and drives smoother then my chrysler 300 with 120k miles. They are extremely reliable. The person who owned the car before you, is basically the factor of how long it lasts when you get it.
Foam filled tires are used on construction machines. You need 2 part catylitic foam, not the sealant. The 5 lb per cubic foot mix they use in boat hulls would probably work, but not the 2 lb "floatation" foam. A heavy equipment tire shop will have genuine tire fill foam, but the ride will be like solid wheels, lol. Great vid, results as I expected
@@AngryHybridApe people mostly use this method on small wheels, like lawnmower tires, carts, etc., where the comfort doesn't matter, will never be driven at high speed and/or don't have to carry like 1-1,5 tons. I don't think that this would work on a car in any way
@@tomcruise1 hey man I hope you see this but what would you suggest for a car tire i keep blowing or rolling off the bead in my race car (derby car) so they Are not special tires... and tips.. would you recommend foam filling if so how is that done
@@tylerh1930 hey. since I'm not a car mechanic, or someone who knows anything about tires, I can not suggest you anything :\ but I don't think there is a good DIY solution for this, I mean, you're probably racing at high speed with a heavy car on sh.tty roads, so this foamfill method won't work, you gotta go for the special solutions I guess
Canned foam requires moisture (h20) from the atmosphere to cure. Inside a tire with that much foam, it will not cure properly, much of it will just stay sticky and goopy. The tire needs to be wetted in the inside in order to provide the required amount of water to react with the polyurethane. That being said I have found that even cured foam does not work in wheels, due to the fact that the foam has no flexibility when fully cured and is just crushed up and becomes useless.
videoclipits- Thanks for saving me the time to point out cyanoacrylate insulation foams like this require water vapor to cure- I have used this type of insulating foam product to replace degraded floation foam in boats, learned the hard way to damp the cavity, only partially fill the desired area, allow first layer to cure, damp remaining volume again, fill some more... some of these repairs I did are now 10 years old and holding up well, but in a boat, they don't get squished like a tire! Gasoline will degrade/dissolve cyanoacrylates. If foaming new floation into bilge area of a power boat or other areas exposed to gasoline, you must protect the foam. Line the area to be filled with a heavy polypropylene (not dissolved by gasoline) plastic bag and fill the bag. Odd shapes, you can make your own liner bag from 4mil poly sheet and Tyvek insulation tape.
@@algrayson8965 Ping pong balls are made out of celluloid plastic- largely, nitrocellulose! Set one on fire and watch how it behaves. The balls dissolve easily in Acetone, any number of the minor aromaric constituents of gasoline will either soften or dissolve NC. Plus, it burns without atmospheric oxygen? Probably not what you want in a boat.
You could try using a vacuum pump to empty the tire without damaging it. Then fill it with foam, so that the foam builds up pressure. Then let the foam harden while the wheel is slowly spinning. It might work for a very light car.
The problem with expanding foam is that once cured, if you deform it hard enough it doesnt return to its originally cured shape... So even if you successfully cure it, and you hit a rock or bump hard enough your tire will have a flat spot until you put actual air in it.
Foam cures by reacting to the humidity in the air. Yes, requires water to get hard. That was why the foam outside the tire was hard but the foam inside was not. Also, foam is not rubber. It has very little ability to recover from being deformed.
1 foam cures and needs time to do so. 2 immediately after filling the tire spin it at hi speed to push out voids. 3 foam is a type of bubble technology, insulating foam isn’t designed to take weight stress loads, however there are other types of foam that can.
I love the paint job on that thing! Although I would like to see them re-try this with some type of foam that cures anaerobically. I've tried to make a custom foam cushion for S&H on a transfer case. I just sprayed this stuff into a garbage sack, thinking that it would expand and conform to the inside of the box and the transfer case sitting in it, but it never cured, just turned to liquid. So this stuff either needs air to cure, or, as someone else noted, water. But they MUST make some type of foam that cures w/o air, because they have expanding foam packing in a bag that conforms to some irregular objects. That might be the stuff to use for the tire filling experiment.
M Demers, I was thinking about making a casting mold of my penis and testicles. Do you think your foam in a sack trick would work for my idea? Or would I be putting my family jewels at risk of suffocation or severe pressure? Let me know! Thanks :-D
I worked at a salvage yard and used great stuff in tires for the beater "yard Dog" truck. It takes a couple weeks for it to dry, but ultimately better than messing with tires every other day
What if you: method 1 - fill it with foam, drive it around to compress it down, then fill it with foam again? And repeat it a few times till it's fully compressed and tire is nicely plumped? Method 2 - fill foam, seal the hole and add air pressure? Making a hybrid tire?
@@EdGeLV , Oshkiv, and Lee Newton, Glad you guys made it back to watch the video yet again after the audio fix. I'm sure it was still great before, but now I'm guessing it will have much more impact. Stick around, as it may be available for purchase on blu-ray soon. Could make great stocking stuffers for your close loved ones too! :_D
there is a higher density foam made for the purpose of filling tires permanently. The tires are filled on construction equipment. They never really balance right after they are filled and are not good for high rpm. Now they make solid rubber tires with collapsible areas in the tire.
The single pack spray foam kinda sucks for this job, I tried it some years ago and it partially cured and the rest actually lost its bubbles and turned back into liquid. what you want is a high density 2 pack system from 3M or similar company, I worked at Nylex Plastics for a few months making ice chests, and thats what we used to fill the voids, that stuff is VERY good. Mythbusters also used it on that airliner they blew up.
Ha you are on to something bro. Light vehicles lawnmowers or carts, just two part epoxy it. Only weakness of epoxy is sunlight.. It'd last forever!! lol
You take the valve stem out, and you do not have to ruin the tire. When we do this in derby cars, it takes about a month to dry, and have only used red cans of great stuff. have not tried anything else. It works for derby cars, this I know.
Spot on,have done the same thing with suspension airbags before to get me out of trouble when stuck out bush,just gotta jack the vehicle up while the foam dries.
This is a lot of extremely valuable information. I am so glad I watched this vid. Damn it! I’m so afraid that I might forget something. Better watch it again.
GeorgeBonez, do you happen to know of any videos where they use cat shit to finger paint with? That would be really interesting to learn from as well :-D
Well done good experiment. The little grey cells should also be able to tell you that foam is full of bubbles, if adding weight/pressure collapses the bubbles it isn't going to work in a car wheel, but thanks for proving it. :)
Construction foam is made to be static and once cured, it's elasticity is limited. There are other high tech polymer foams that have better elasticity properties that don't fully cure that are less apt to chafe or self degrade in tires like this stuff. It's expensive and not found on store shelves. If all streets were perfectly flat and you never hit a bump or a pot hole, this foam would work to a limited degree at low speeds. In the end, one cannot beat run flat tires with off the shelf DIY solutions like construction foam. If one wants a run flat that will work well over 50-100 miles, buy a solid rubber tire, the solid rubber tire would eat caltrops or hollow road spikes and come back for more. Although you might need a chiropractor for the rough ride though :)
This is why REAL foam-filled tires cost so much -- even if you can get construction foam to cure correctly, it still isn't resilient enough to withstand being flexed millions of times as the tire rotates.
Back in the 70's we sold 5 fertilizer tractors to the USSR. Tires taller than a man. We call them "Bigfoot" tires. They were in the middle of Moscow and couldn't find an air compressor. A Russian was going to use a hand pump until they found a road crew with an air compressor.
When I was in my early twenties, I used to pee on my tires to brighten up the white walls. But after they became yellowish and started to wreak like an old woman's bed pan, I quit doing it. True story ;-)
the reason why it doesn't work is because air trapped in the foam is not pressurised. The tire looks in full shape but immediately goes flat as soon as load is applied. In this case load is supported just until the foam structure starts to break to dust.
Hit the foam at work with a hammer repeatedly in the same spot and see for your self. It breaks down more and more into tiny chunks and dust. Foam is not flexible like silicon.
Reminds me of my failure filling a lawnmower tire with foam... A new tire was much cheaper than all the foam I put in over the weeks, and wouldn't have been rock hard when done.
FOAM NEEDS WATER (h2o) SO IT CAN HARDEN. YOUR WEELS RUN FLAT BECAUSE THE FOAM INSIDE THE WEEL WAS NOT HARD SPRAY THE INSIDE OF YOUR WEEL WITH h2o THEN FOAM IT UP AND IT WILL STAY HARD.
When I was a kid I used to fill my bike tires with water. All those tiny little holes from thorns and stickers were a constant problem, after the water treatment, no flats. I would not try filling a car tire with anything but air though, anything over a few MPH and things can happen.
This guy has so little resources but puts out a Wonderful video. I don't know where he is but in the South we say...Bless His Soul.. He's most likely the smartest guy in the neighborhood!
I did that once as a quick fix at a wheelbarrow. And it did not work: I used a whole can and it did not fill the tire properly although in theory it should be way enough.. I figured the reason is that construction foam is actually a 2 component material needing another component to cure, and that is water. Normal air humidity is usually enough. I am guessing that inside the closed tire there is not enough moisture to really cure all of the foam. Air humidity is used up and then the tire is more or less sealed and dry inside. So it does not expand as much you would normally expect and therefore does not fill the tire. I kinda knew that right from the start so I sprayed a bit of water in the tire first, but that did not help, maybe because it did not reach all areas. At least thats what I figured could be the cause.
We use foam filled tires on some equipment. It's a different foam and it holds up well. But those tires cannot be used on any high speed equipment due to their weight.
Garage 54 ENG, Why would You even consider using this kind of foam? When it dries, it gets stiff and breaks easily. Foam rubber, under pressure, would be better, longer lasting too.
Would be good to see if there is someone able to make a good never flat solid tyre using a stronger foam. Obviously construction foam is not well suited to carrying the weight of a car, that's just far in excess of its compressive strength. But a foam that has sealed air bubbles in a matrix made of a strong silicone/vulcanized rubber like material is something that I can picture nailing it.
Today I plan on using flat rubber tubes from various transport types, slicing into super long stripes the few larger ones i happen to have and building my 1st solid rubber tire on my bike trailer as a template, learning from that and continuing until every tire on the property is a Sherakee Classic lifetime guaranteed to out last the vehicles et al, up to the 1958 Detroit diesel greyhound motorhome conversion and not for one more day of my life be perpetually wasted from the cornbread crumbly garbage they make and sell these days. My idea was straight from "Hey Proof, meet Puddin." My "brand new" 1950s model 18k lift cat forks were rollin Boss over it all, and on what looked like ½ to ⅝ flaps compressed well past submission around the sizeable rims. Oh, and they rolled out day one when she did, day one to over 60 years of service from jump, right outta the factory the ride or die American ingenuity, hell all human ingenuity that is returning with a vengeance.
A suggestion if you decide to try more experiments with foam, make a fitting that will screw onto the valvestem that has a shutoff valve, similar to the tools that HVAC technicians use to replace schrader valves. Attach the tire to a spinnable hub that's mounted on a bench. Pull the valvecore out of the tire's valve stem and vacuum-pump the tire down. Shut off the valve. Unhook the vacuum pump. Attach the sprayfoam to the shutoff valve. Align the tire so that the valve stem is at the top. Start spraying the foam as you open-up the shutoff valve. When you think that you have enough foam, stop spraying, disconnect and remove the shutoff valve, clean the valvestem inside, then reinstall the valve core. Then pressurize the tire with air and spin it with something for several hours while the foam hardens. Then test what happens when it gets punctured or slashed or otherwise compromised while pressurized.
I remember run flat tires of decades ago. There was an outer ordinary tire and a smaller tire within. The wheel had two valve stems, one for the outer tire and one for the smaller emergency tire. A rubber-safe lubricant was in the space between the tires. Great idea if adding ten+ pounds to the unsprung weight of each wheel is good.
Steve Berner make sure sign a waiver so your life insurance company doesn't get screwed out of their money. Also, be sure to ask someone if they'll post the video here after you've tested your idea :-D
My first thought was that the foam would never withstand the heat and compression stress of driving (as was proven by the test drive in the video). Second, I figured there was no way someone was going to evacuate all the air in the tire, and that would mean air pockets in arbitrary places- balancing the wheel and tire was going to be a huge problem. But, I had a county sheriff's deputy out at my place for a vandalism issue. We needed to cross a field overgrown with McCartney (wild) rose bushes. I recommended we walk, on account of the roses, but he said it wasn't necessary- that his tires were foam-filled. I asked him a lot of questions he couldn't answer, but he assured me his tires Could Not go flat. Considering the punishment cop car tires endure- high speed cornering, off road travel, etc., I thought that was pretty impressive. (I remembered, from my fleet maintenance days, the reason police cars wear Hub Caps instead of Wheel Covers is because cornering stress bends the wheels enough to launch wheel covers- which gets expensive). Obviously, if that deputy's tires were foam-filled, someone has mastered the art and has found a foam product that stands up to the heat and stress. That foam filled tires don't get bragged about or advertised may be a matter of giving law enforcement slight advantage in the "hot pursuit" crap we see all over the TV news and RUclips.
The same stuff that I used to fill in round new UPVC windows to the brickwork. I had been supplied with large refillable cylinders of the stuff and the solvent cleaner to soak the hand gun applier at the finish of work. I came back home with a lot of foam left over from the job. So I thought that I would put it to good use. I scarped out the crap sand/cement mortar that had been loose and blowing out for ages around my roof tiles and blasted around the tiles with the expanding foam onto the wood lathes of the roof. Once started I had to keep going has I did not have a lot of solvent left to clean up the tools. So every tile in my roof was permanently fixed with the foam. No bloody winter wind was going to get under my roof for a long time. Ho yea I filled my sons "Noddy" bike plastic tires up has they were wearing very thin were he had been skidding about with it. That was thirty odd years ago. It weighed a bloody ton after that
LukeThe Joker, glad you came back to watch the video yet again after the sound got fixed! Maybe they'll remaster and add a little cgi in the future- then you can maybe purchase it on Blu-ray too. Golden Globe's here we come! :-)
Professional foam fillers use the valve stem to fill the tire with the tire vertical a tiny hole is drilled in the top of the tires which gets a screw drilled into it when the foam comes out.
spin the wheel on a wheel balancer while filling would be the only way i can see evenly distributing the foam any other way is unevenly distributing...im certified in afroengineering ...
I used to buy a similar product in two part liquid form. one 8 oz can of A and one 8 oz can of B. it came in a 1/2 gallon milk carton style container, pour it in the milk carton, first part A then part B and shake it up then pour it in a post hole or where ever you needed it. in minute or two it starts expanding and fills up the hole and then hardens and you are done. I have set sign posts, fence posts, basketball goals etc with the product. it is a good product and has many uses
For reference, this sort of foam cures with moisture. If you want to try this out, put water into the tyres first. This will ensure the foam cures hard.
I could've told you what would happen. This kind of foam issn't designed to glue something together, it's designed to be an insulator. Which means as it expands, it becomes very porous instead of solid. But also becomes brittle. So when you apply force on it, it breaks, crumbles, or in this case it gets flattened.
The reason for this experiment. Is to lessen the cost and to use these as spare tires. And to have one instead of running out of air. You can get to the place of safety.
There are forklift tires on the market (called super elestic tires) which are filled with a special hard foam, they need no air but the foam still has a similar effect on suspension like air filled tires. But it's a special material, no simple construction foam.
Wheelbarrow tires this will work, BUT after using it awhile it requires you to add more foam !! The foam compacts !!! My rim is rusted, and the bead area has gaps in it, so this is what i did instead of replacing the wheel ! It works !!
Fair enough. I guess you can just add more foam when it gets smooshed. Eventually you will reach an equilibrium. After all, it's just a dirt trolley, not what you drive your loved ones around in.
Another reason I love RUclips people. We go beyond logic and travel farther than most peoples imagination just to test something. I will say thank you for the water to cure tip. I'm 63 and feel bad that I didn't know that. Thank you all :)
PUR Foam hard and stick at best with moister, so I think you schould put some water in the tire, then fil the tire as much as possible with the foam, then put air in the tire on pressure, let's say 2.2 BAR. go drive for an few houers so the foam can spread and harding. Then the next day leave the air (if it's still possible) out of the tire, and see there.
@@cynthiaayers7696- Never go flat for sure. Instead of silicone do concrete implants. Never leak, never go flat. Next replace brain with concrete. Never get Alzheimer's, brain cancer, brain worms. I had it done years ago. Wife can't tell the difference in me.
I wonder why there are so many dislikes on this video. Sure, the experiment didn't end up being a success but they were at least willing to make a video about it and showed the results of their effort.
Construction foam works very well if you aren't doing it to all four tires. My dad has been patching his tires this way for years. It works best if the air is completely gone from the tire and the foam is directly inserted into the air valve so that the rubber isn't cut and the foam has no way to come out.
There's always going to be air in tire though
Me: I should really start studying
RUclips: What happens when you fill tires with construction foam?
Me: A very respectable question
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Almost like What happens when you fill your mind with this crap. How do we keep ending up watching this stuff??
Some things you don't learn in school only on RUclips
"Time to study" YT: "SNAKE BITE VIDEOS"
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I must admit this is by far one of my very favorite channels on RUclips. Thank you so much for making these crazy yet very entertaining videos. I also appreciate that you have English translation. Love and respect big brother! ☝😎👌
I agree 200%
We used foam for filling voids in a radioactive landfill. It had (2) 5000 gallon tanks of A/B mixture. Our foam was 30 PSI so that heavy equipment could drive in the cell lifts as they where covered. They said construction foam is normally around 8-12 psi max. We had tons of fun with that gun. A 3second shot would produce enough foam to fill a 55 gallon drum when foam expanded. We filled tyvek suits and had them standing around like workers.
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Where was this place?
Twelve cans of construction foam doubled the value of the Lada.
*+2.3 Millions hits = $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ LMFAO*
I think I'm going into business exporting & selling expanding foam in Russia & all the other Eastern Block countries that still drive around in Lada cars.
Rickytricky01 I used to own a Chevy monza in 1985, the car was ca. 10 years old, it constantly broke down on me , every week I had to spend part of my paycheck on repairs, sold it and never again owned a American car, only Japanese, iam sure a 40/50 year lada is a better car than my first car, Chevy monza.
TBH trash is trash, the older the car, the worse for us. But man, those japanese cars are so durable. I am talking about 1990s models. You can't break them with normal service and driving.
@@r.j.m4245 Lol. Youre downing American cars after owning a POS lol. No offense. Nowadays, they are pretty reliable. My 5.7 Hemi will NEVER give up on me, and its literally the easiest engine you can work on. My Chevy avalanche, also wont give up on me. Thing has 208k miles and drives smoother then my chrysler 300 with 120k miles. They are extremely reliable. The person who owned the car before you, is basically the factor of how long it lasts when you get it.
Foam filled tires are used on construction machines. You need 2 part catylitic foam, not the sealant. The 5 lb per cubic foot mix they use in boat hulls would probably work, but not the 2 lb "floatation" foam. A heavy equipment tire shop will have genuine tire fill foam, but the ride will be like solid wheels, lol. Great vid, results as I expected
look it bleeds foam!!!🤣🤣🤣
Actually, this is very informative to me. I always wondered about filling tires with foam to make them puncture proof.
Kittelizer Laurelott it’s called foamfill I do it every day for a living
@@jeffrr3295
In tires? But that guy just did it and it didn't work. Different kind of foam probably, huh?
@@AngryHybridApe people mostly use this method on small wheels, like lawnmower tires, carts, etc., where the comfort doesn't matter, will never be driven at high speed and/or don't have to carry like 1-1,5 tons. I don't think that this would work on a car in any way
@@tomcruise1 hey man I hope you see this but what would you suggest for a car tire i keep blowing or rolling off the bead in my race car (derby car) so they Are not special tires... and tips.. would you recommend foam filling if so how is that done
@@tylerh1930 hey. since I'm not a car mechanic, or someone who knows anything about tires, I can not suggest you anything :\ but I don't think there is a good DIY solution for this, I mean, you're probably racing at high speed with a heavy car on sh.tty roads, so this foamfill method won't work, you gotta go for the special solutions I guess
Use expanding builders foam, 1 can of the stuff blew up in a friends car a few years ago in the sun and the whole back of the car was 1 solid chunk
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Canned foam requires moisture (h20) from the atmosphere to cure. Inside a tire with that much foam, it will not cure properly, much of it will just stay sticky and goopy. The tire needs to be wetted in the inside in order to provide the required amount of water to react with the polyurethane. That being said I have found that even cured foam does not work in wheels, due to the fact that the foam has no flexibility when fully cured and is just crushed up and becomes useless.
videoclipits- Thanks for saving me the time to point out cyanoacrylate insulation foams like this require water vapor to cure-
I have used this type of insulating foam product to replace degraded floation foam in boats, learned the hard way to damp the cavity, only partially fill the desired area, allow first layer to cure, damp remaining volume again, fill some more... some of these repairs I did are now 10 years old and holding up well, but in a boat, they don't get squished like a tire!
Gasoline will degrade/dissolve cyanoacrylates. If foaming new floation into bilge area of a power boat or other areas exposed to gasoline, you must protect the foam. Line the area to be filled with a heavy polypropylene (not dissolved by gasoline) plastic bag and fill the bag. Odd shapes, you can make your own liner bag from 4mil poly sheet and Tyvek insulation tape.
@@Bert2368- Fill the spaces with Ping-Pong balls!
I've never tested them with gasoline, so you're on your own!
videoclipits nn
@@algrayson8965
Ping pong balls are made out of celluloid plastic- largely, nitrocellulose! Set one on fire and watch how it behaves.
The balls dissolve easily in Acetone, any number of the minor aromaric constituents of gasoline will either soften or dissolve NC.
Plus, it burns without atmospheric oxygen? Probably not what you want in a boat.
Loctite makes a spray foam that acts like flexible Styrofoam.
You could try using a vacuum pump to empty the tire without damaging it. Then fill it with foam, so that the foam builds up pressure. Then let the foam harden while the wheel is slowly spinning. It might work for a very light car.
that would be to much work and the foam still fill the tires well enough🤣🤣🤣
A good effort.
The foam you used makes too many air bubbles and quickly crushed. 😂
Thanks for the video 👍
The problem with expanding foam is that once cured, if you deform it hard enough it doesnt return to its originally cured shape... So even if you successfully cure it, and you hit a rock or bump hard enough your tire will have a flat spot until you put actual air in it.
spend a fortune construction foam well tires are big🤣🤣🤣
Foam cures by reacting to the humidity in the air. Yes, requires water to get hard. That was why the foam outside the tire was hard but the foam inside was not. Also, foam is not rubber. It has very little ability to recover from being deformed.
Worked on my lawn mower. Have to have two holes ,one to fill,one on top to vent all air. Let dry for couple weeks,worked for me
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@@lindalanoue3270 and... I don't have to air up tire anymore,nor did I buy a new one. AND that's cool bye me
Russian scientists testing experimental wheel (Объект 230) (1972, colorized)
SCP object.
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You would know wouldn't you..
1 foam cures and needs time to do so. 2 immediately after filling the tire spin it at hi speed to push out voids. 3 foam is a type of bubble technology, insulating foam isn’t designed to take weight stress loads, however there are other types of foam that can.
I love the paint job on that thing! Although I would like to see them re-try this with some type of foam that cures anaerobically. I've tried to make a custom foam cushion for S&H on a transfer case. I just sprayed this stuff into a garbage sack, thinking that it would expand and conform to the inside of the box and the transfer case sitting in it, but it never cured, just turned to liquid. So this stuff either needs air to cure, or, as someone else noted, water. But they MUST make some type of foam that cures w/o air, because they have expanding foam packing in a bag that conforms to some irregular objects. That might be the stuff to use for the tire filling experiment.
I have good luck on wheel barrow tires and lawn mower tires front ,but put sticks in holes after filling 4 holes each side . Wear gloves.....
M Demers, I was thinking about making a casting mold of my penis and testicles. Do you think your foam in a sack trick would work for my idea? Or would I be putting my family jewels at risk of suffocation or severe pressure? Let me know! Thanks :-D
@@Rick-the-Swift I would suggest that you use the moulding silicone, like they use for prosthetic applications on movie sets.
Its designed for this.
Perhaps try a 2 pot epoxy foam.
I worked at a salvage yard and used great stuff in tires for the beater "yard Dog" truck. It takes a couple weeks for it to dry, but ultimately better than messing with tires every other day
good. now I know twice.
What are you doing here lol
wut are u doing here boris, searching ways to slavify your car?
Eyyyy, look who's here
Boris is living through end of month so he can’t afford air for his Lada.
There were audio sync issues with the previous upload of this vid, had to fix them and re-upload.
The music made the test drive seem like an epic endeavor lol thumbs up
The cans of foam were worth more than the Lada, but I enjoyed the vid good work guys
I can't stop watching these! Greetings from Minnesota!
The foam hardening is aerobic reaction. Needs air to set up or become hard. It will stay liquid if no air
What if you: method 1 - fill it with foam, drive it around to compress it down, then fill it with foam again? And repeat it a few times till it's fully compressed and tire is nicely plumped? Method 2 - fill foam, seal the hole and add air pressure? Making a hybrid tire?
Thank you for fixing the audio guys!
Lee Newton Yeaahhh
What was wrong with it before?
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It was Russian
@@oshkiv4684 the audio was delayed in previous one
@@EdGeLV , Oshkiv, and Lee Newton, Glad you guys made it back to watch the video yet again after the audio fix. I'm sure it was still great before, but now I'm guessing it will have much more impact. Stick around, as it may be available for purchase on blu-ray soon. Could make great stocking stuffers for your close loved ones too! :_D
there is a higher density foam made for the purpose of filling tires permanently. The tires are filled on construction equipment. They never really balance right after they are filled and are not good for high rpm. Now they make solid rubber tires with collapsible areas in the tire.
The single pack spray foam kinda sucks for this job, I tried it some years ago and it partially cured and the rest actually lost its bubbles and turned back into liquid. what you want is a high density 2 pack system from 3M or similar company, I worked at Nylex Plastics for a few months making ice chests, and thats what we used to fill the voids, that stuff is VERY good. Mythbusters also used it on that airliner they blew up.
Did not expect to see you here. Love your videos.
I wouldn't mind seeing some of that foam used that they use to put posts into the ground instead of cement.
Ha you are on to something bro. Light vehicles lawnmowers or carts, just two part epoxy it. Only weakness of epoxy is sunlight.. It'd last forever!! lol
yep, same here. It will not harden completely throughout because the air and moisture cannot reach it.
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The honesty of a fail is worth a thumbs up.
You take the valve stem out, and you do not have to ruin the tire. When we do this in derby cars, it takes about a month to dry, and have only used red cans of great stuff. have not tried anything else. It works for derby cars, this I know.
Spot on,have done the same thing with suspension airbags before to get me out of trouble when stuck out bush,just gotta jack the vehicle up while the foam dries.
"do not have to ruin the tire" is, of course said in a humorous way.
I love the scenes outside the garage. Cinematic as fuck.
I actually like that little car. Simple, plenty of room and rear wheel drive. Would be very practicle, and easy to maintain.
Yeah, I especially like their dual vodka bottle holder.
Everyone knows a proper Lada owner machines their own parts. ;)
LOL! And everyone knows "FIAT" stands for "Fix It Again, Tony!"
@Demo, you are a dangerous man. Keep it up.
@@Reziac Actually, it stands for "Fix It Again, Tatiana"
Man I love this channel! Much love from Denver, Colorado, USA!
This is a lot of extremely valuable information. I am so glad I watched this vid.
Damn it! I’m so afraid that I might forget something. Better watch it again.
GeorgeBonez, do you happen to know of any videos where they use cat shit to finger paint with? That would be really interesting to learn from as well :-D
Well done good experiment. The little grey cells should also be able to tell you that foam is full of bubbles, if adding weight/pressure collapses the bubbles it isn't going to work in a car wheel, but thanks for proving it. :)
This is Great channel they make all my childhood ideas happen... briliant !
Thanks for sharing this video, it stopped us from wasting time and money on our cracked tractor tires, :)
MUCH RESPECT GUYS. !! Love the channel !! Take care of yourself ! And cheers Buddy !!!
Construction foam is made to be static and once cured, it's elasticity is limited. There are other high tech polymer foams that have better elasticity properties that don't fully cure that are less apt to chafe or self degrade in tires like this stuff. It's expensive and not found on store shelves. If all streets were perfectly flat and you never hit a bump or a pot hole, this foam would work to a limited degree at low speeds.
In the end, one cannot beat run flat tires with off the shelf DIY solutions like construction foam. If one wants a run flat that will work well over 50-100 miles, buy a solid rubber tire, the solid rubber tire would eat caltrops or hollow road spikes and come back for more. Although you might need a chiropractor for the rough ride though :)
Much better and cheapper to fill the tyres with concrete.💪
They need to try that again. First time was a fail.
This is why REAL foam-filled tires cost so much -- even if you can get construction foam to cure correctly, it still isn't resilient enough to withstand being flexed millions of times as the tire rotates.
Back in the 70's we sold 5 fertilizer tractors to the USSR. Tires taller than a man. We call them "Bigfoot" tires. They were in the middle of Moscow and couldn't find an air compressor. A Russian was going to use a hand pump until they found a road crew with an air compressor.
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your point being?
That is a beautiful story, thanks for sharing
When I was in my early twenties, I used to pee on my tires to brighten up the white walls. But after they became yellowish and started to wreak like an old woman's bed pan, I quit doing it. True story ;-)
the reason why it doesn't work is because air trapped in the foam is not pressurised. The tire looks in full shape but immediately goes flat as soon as load is applied. In this case load is supported just until the foam structure starts to break to dust.
Just as I thought. Any dry foam would quickly turn to powder as it is repeatedly crushed by the weight of the car as the wheels go around.
WARPHEAD this foam doesn't react like that, if it's the same as I use at work.
They use this technique in demolition derbies all the time
crazy bullshit
crazy
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Hit the foam at work with a hammer repeatedly in the same spot and see for your self. It breaks down more and more into tiny chunks and dust. Foam is not flexible like silicon.
Reminds me of my failure filling a lawnmower tire with foam... A new tire was much cheaper than all the foam I put in over the weeks, and wouldn't have been rock hard when done.
FOAM NEEDS WATER (h2o)
SO IT CAN HARDEN.
YOUR WEELS RUN FLAT BECAUSE THE FOAM INSIDE THE WEEL WAS NOT HARD
SPRAY THE INSIDE OF YOUR WEEL WITH h2o THEN FOAM IT UP AND IT WILL STAY HARD.
One thing fails it anyway. How the fluid can evaporate if the space is closed?
When my girl has a lil h20 in her "tire" i stay hard
When I was a kid I used to fill my bike tires with water. All those tiny little holes from thorns and stickers were a constant problem, after the water treatment, no flats. I would not try filling a car tire with anything but air though, anything over a few MPH and things can happen.
This guy has so little resources but puts out a Wonderful video. I don't know where he is but in the South we say...Bless His Soul.. He's most likely the smartest guy in the neighborhood!
rne143c I think some of it is an act. He has an automotive business with a nice shop and lifts.
most flat Earthers know he's in the deep South, might be in your neighborhood :P
@@Reza254 they have like their own sort of gaydar- only they can detect others who believe we live on a spinning pancake :-D
I did that once as a quick fix at a wheelbarrow. And it did not work: I used a whole can and it did not fill the tire properly although in theory it should be way enough.. I figured the reason is that construction foam is actually a 2 component material needing another component to cure, and that is water. Normal air humidity is usually enough. I am guessing that inside the closed tire there is not enough moisture to really cure all of the foam. Air humidity is used up and then the tire is more or less sealed and dry inside. So it does not expand as much you would normally expect and therefore does not fill the tire.
I kinda knew that right from the start so I sprayed a bit of water in the tire first, but that did not help, maybe because it did not reach all areas.
At least thats what I figured could be the cause.
Takes a Lada foam to fill four tires.
Scooter George skoda used more foam!
Skoda is the wrinkled and green guy from the Star Wars flicks. right?
Stop with the tyred puns, you are foam-enting a riot!
Why Pun-ish me? You're Russian to judgement.
I see what you did there......
This is exactly what i was trying to find out, also thats a sick ol bmr you tested those tires on
This is an old video of a KGB test lab for bulletproof tires.
haha too good
I got a mental picture of what he just said and almost shit myself whilst laughing... my god hahahah hahaha haa haha ha
I fill mine with rabbits
We use foam filled tires on some equipment. It's a different foam and it holds up well. But those tires cannot be used on any high speed equipment due to their weight.
Garage 54 ENG, Why would You even consider using this kind of foam? When it dries, it gets stiff and breaks easily. Foam rubber, under pressure, would be better, longer lasting too.
I guess if you had five days to wait, it might get you to the nearest gas station, where you would have to buy a new tire anyway. LOL
What ever happened to the foam made for tires developed in 1975?
Would be good to see if there is someone able to make a good never flat solid tyre using a stronger foam. Obviously construction foam is not well suited to carrying the weight of a car, that's just far in excess of its compressive strength. But a foam that has sealed air bubbles in a matrix made of a strong silicone/vulcanized rubber like material is something that I can picture nailing it.
Today I plan on using flat rubber tubes from various transport types, slicing into super long stripes the few larger ones i happen to have and building my 1st solid rubber tire on my bike trailer as a template, learning from that and continuing until every tire on the property is a Sherakee Classic lifetime guaranteed to out last the vehicles et al, up to the 1958 Detroit diesel greyhound motorhome conversion and not for one more day of my life be perpetually wasted from the cornbread crumbly garbage they make and sell these days. My idea was straight from "Hey Proof, meet Puddin." My "brand new" 1950s model 18k lift cat forks were rollin Boss over it all, and on what looked like ½ to ⅝ flaps compressed well past submission around the sizeable rims. Oh, and they rolled out day one when she did, day one to over 60 years of service from jump, right outta the factory the ride or die American ingenuity, hell all human ingenuity that is returning with a vengeance.
Should of used boat foam. Its designed for extreme conditions, it will be a good option for this experiment.
"boat foam" is the same stuff.
A suggestion if you decide to try more experiments with foam, make a fitting that will screw onto the valvestem that has a shutoff valve, similar to the tools that HVAC technicians use to replace schrader valves. Attach the tire to a spinnable hub that's mounted on a bench. Pull the valvecore out of the tire's valve stem and vacuum-pump the tire down. Shut off the valve. Unhook the vacuum pump. Attach the sprayfoam to the shutoff valve. Align the tire so that the valve stem is at the top. Start spraying the foam as you open-up the shutoff valve. When you think that you have enough foam, stop spraying, disconnect and remove the shutoff valve, clean the valvestem inside, then reinstall the valve core. Then pressurize the tire with air and spin it with something for several hours while the foam hardens.
Then test what happens when it gets punctured or slashed or otherwise compromised while pressurized.
When they invented 'run flat tyres' I don't think this is what they had in mind.
I remember run flat tires of decades ago. There was an outer ordinary tire and a smaller tire within. The wheel had two valve stems, one for the outer tire and one for the smaller emergency tire. A rubber-safe lubricant was in the space between the tires.
Great idea if adding ten+ pounds to the unsprung weight of each wheel is good.
I would recommend rotating the wheels slowly for at least 20 minutes or so to make sure that the foam gets distributed evenly around the tire.
I've seen this done many times in the demo derby industry, (super illegal btw) But it will work when it's done properly.
Hows the proper way to do it
The doors on a Lada pretty much open like that without foam. A real quality piece.
3:30.... you can only see such a picture on this channel...
a guy, filling tires while a knife is stuck in the rubber xD
Theres something gratifying to watching a person fill holes with foam lol
Did I really just watch this
We did
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Yes sir! All 13+ minutes of it. Oddly satisfying too I must say :D
Ya, you just wasted 13 minutes of your life!
@@grower-ge2mx Yep. Plus the time it took to read and write comments :D
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use the foam to make that car water tight, then take it to a lake, see if it floats. that would be awesome
I can see you doing that, getting in the car & as it slowly sinks, you can't get the door open!!!
Scott Berner Bwahaha!!!
Scott.... no. Are you joking with us? Please say yes, otherwise... well let's just say I hope you are joking.
Steve Berner make sure sign a waiver so your life insurance company doesn't get screwed out of their money. Also, be sure to ask someone if they'll post the video here after you've tested your idea :-D
My first thought was that the foam would never withstand the heat and compression stress of driving (as was proven by the test drive in the video). Second, I figured there was no way someone was going to evacuate all the air in the tire, and that would mean air pockets in arbitrary places- balancing the wheel and tire was going to be a huge problem.
But, I had a county sheriff's deputy out at my place for a vandalism issue. We needed to cross a field overgrown with McCartney (wild) rose bushes. I recommended we walk, on account of the roses, but he said it wasn't necessary- that his tires were foam-filled. I asked him a lot of questions he couldn't answer, but he assured me his tires Could Not go flat.
Considering the punishment cop car tires endure- high speed cornering, off road travel, etc., I thought that was pretty impressive. (I remembered, from my fleet maintenance days, the reason police cars wear Hub Caps instead of Wheel Covers is because cornering stress bends the wheels enough to launch wheel covers- which gets expensive).
Obviously, if that deputy's tires were foam-filled, someone has mastered the art and has found a foam product that stands up to the heat and stress. That foam filled tires don't get bragged about or advertised may be a matter of giving law enforcement slight advantage in the "hot pursuit" crap we see all over the TV news and RUclips.
I used Adobe on a rim, and not only is it still there 11 yrs later used daily driver! '75 silverado? I stopped stuttering & my penis grew 2.75 inches!
@@Reza254 No! Almost tripled!!
length, girth, or cubic inches?
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Cubic inches? Its a peter not a smallblock?
LMFAO ! : )'
I reckon the ladies would love a bit of fillerfoam up the tuppy
The same stuff that I used to fill in round new UPVC windows to the brickwork. I had been supplied with large refillable cylinders of the stuff and the solvent cleaner to soak the hand gun applier at the finish of work. I came back home with a lot of foam left over from the job. So I thought that I would put it to good use. I scarped out the crap sand/cement mortar that had been loose and blowing out for ages around my roof tiles and blasted around the tiles with the expanding foam onto the wood lathes of the roof. Once started I had to keep going has I did not have a lot of solvent left to clean up the tools. So every tile in my roof was permanently fixed with the foam. No bloody winter wind was going to get under my roof for a long time. Ho yea I filled my sons "Noddy" bike plastic tires up has they were wearing very thin were he had been skidding about with it. That was thirty odd years ago. It weighed a bloody ton after that
Thanks for re-uploading with the sound fixed!
LukeThe Joker, glad you came back to watch the video yet again after the sound got fixed! Maybe they'll remaster and add a little cgi in the future- then you can maybe purchase it on Blu-ray too. Golden Globe's here we come! :-)
Professional foam fillers use the valve stem to fill the tire with the tire vertical a tiny hole is drilled in the top of the tires which gets a screw drilled into it when the foam comes out.
spin the wheel on a wheel balancer while filling would be the only way i can see evenly distributing the foam any other way is unevenly distributing...im certified in afroengineering ...
david peirce, I agree and I've got a BS from Afro-Tech my self :-D
I used to buy a similar product in two part liquid form. one 8 oz can of A and one 8 oz can of B. it came in a 1/2 gallon milk carton style container, pour it in the milk carton, first part A then part B and shake it up then pour it in a post hole or where ever you needed it. in minute or two it starts expanding and fills up the hole and then hardens and you are done. I have set sign posts, fence posts, basketball goals etc with the product. it is a good product and has many uses
What is the name of that?
Is it Flexfoam IT25 with Black Panther Adhesive?
try filling the tires with Peanut Butter and jelly next.
Mark Farmer 😂
@Mark Farmer, or with cat shit- that would be funny too :-D
For reference, this sort of foam cures with moisture. If you want to try this out, put water into the tyres first. This will ensure the foam cures hard.
MOLTEN ALUMINUM WORKS MUCH BETTER AND BESIDES THAT IT NEVER RUSTS. TRY IT YOU'LL LIKE IT.
Maybe it would work if the tyre was put in water ,that too dangerous tho
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I still say that this type of construction foam is the key to a interstellar gateway.
I could've told you what would happen. This kind of foam issn't designed to glue something together, it's designed to be an insulator. Which means as it expands, it becomes very porous instead of solid. But also becomes brittle. So when you apply force on it, it breaks, crumbles, or in this case it gets flattened.
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The reason for this experiment. Is to lessen the cost and to use these as spare tires. And to have one instead of running out of air. You can get to the place of safety.
Why are we filling tires with foam? I think I missed that part. What am I doing with my life? Why am I watching this?
There are forklift tires on the market (called super elestic tires) which are filled with a special hard foam, they need no air but the foam still has a similar effect on suspension like air filled tires. But it's a special material, no simple construction foam.
It looks like the weight of the car crushes the foam. On the other hand this might not be a bad idea for my leaky wheel barrow tire.
Wheelbarrow tires this will work, BUT after using it awhile it requires you to add more foam !! The foam compacts !!! My rim is rusted, and the bead area has gaps in it, so this is what i did instead of replacing the wheel ! It works !!
Have you tried using a tube? or using tire slime?
@@christurnblom4825 the rim is too rusted for a tube ! The foam works, and I'm too lazy to change the wheel !! 😁😁😁😁😁😉👍✌😉
Fair enough. I guess you can just add more foam when it gets smooshed. Eventually you will reach an equilibrium. After all, it's just a dirt trolley, not what you drive your loved ones around in.
Works on my old 8hp rear-tine Mang rototiller too
Note to self. Don't add construction foam to tires. Not sure how I got here but this made me laugh.. so funny..
LOL.. that poor car has been sacrificed to so many things
it's common thing in russia lol lada go forever
Another reason I love RUclips people. We go beyond logic and travel farther than most peoples imagination just to test something. I will say thank you for the water to cure tip. I'm 63 and feel bad that I didn't know that. Thank you all :)
About the same price in foam will get you 4 new tires at Walmart.
Some people just HAVE to do things the hard way.
No Walmarts in Russia.. Yet.
N-Yet?
@@SwankeyMonkey Da, da nyet, nyet.
We have a Superior Lada here in America, it is called a Tesla Car. Same Quality build and only costs 150,000$ US Dollars...
Now we all know what happened to Lorena Bobbits knife.
I think this foam in theory was meant for small tires as in lawn equipment and snowblowers, not auto tires. Big weight difference.
A lot of heavy machinery with tires on construction sites are filled with foam
A lot of those big tires are half filled with water to increase the weight.
PUR Foam hard and stick at best with moister, so I think you schould put some water in the tire, then fil the tire as much as possible with the foam, then put air in the tire on pressure, let's say 2.2 BAR. go drive for an few houers so the foam can spread and harding. Then the next day leave the air (if it's still possible) out of the tire, and see there.
wasn't this uploaded yesterday? or the day before?
the audio was out of sync
I remeber i used to have bicycle tires that were filled with foam, they worked pretty well
fill them with marbles, or steel ball bearings, or water, or mayonnaise, and one time with old fish
Filling with concrete
@@cynthiaayers7696- Never go flat for sure.
Instead of silicone do concrete implants. Never leak, never go flat.
Next replace brain with concrete. Never get Alzheimer's, brain cancer, brain worms.
I had it done years ago. Wife can't tell the difference in me.
I am convinced that many women have had their hearts replaced with concrete or maybe granite.
Grom, I thought filling with cat shit would be a great idea too :-D
Now you're just being silly
I wonder why there are so many dislikes on this video. Sure, the experiment didn't end up being a success but they were at least willing to make a video about it and showed the results of their effort.
Not going to lie, watched the whole thing and hated it from the first 5 seconds.
Not shocking.. that's everything for you in life, on the other hand enjoyed these men taking their time out of their day to entertain us.
+Steel salad Then you're an idiot.
Come on steel salad, where's your glasnost?
Is that like RUclips S&M?
8:56 that moment when all your dreams are dashed and you feel as deflated as the tire you've been busting your hump trying to make "flat-proof"
hey guys you should do a video on trying to burn out a set of drum brakes and seeing if you can get the drum red hot
AllThingsBikes they did it with disc brakes.
Andrew W. yeah they did but im not sure ive ever seen brake drums glow
AllThingsBikes ive seen drums on a pt cruiser painted red.. Kinda close.
Andrew Lowery haahah😂😂😂
drums are aluminium and dont glow red.
I injected this stuff in the wall cavitys of my caravan which bonded it together. It's good insulation too.
Although your experiment is unsuccessful I’ll give you thumbs up