Saturday 30 May 2015

Something Different

I’m sure I hardly need to write it down as once again Friday was cool and windy. We had some rain through the morning which cleared away to leave sunny spells and scattered showers for the afternoon. 

The last time we visited the plot we found that our new wheelbarrow had developed a puncture. We don’t normally have enough space in the car to fit in a wheelbarrow so the wheel was removed and brought home for a repair.
I can’t remember doing a puncture repair since I had a bike many years ago which once was my main mode of travel. A trip to Halfords to buy a puncture repair kit reminded me of all those different little items you need. Some levers to get the tyre off the wheel rim then there’s the chalk dust, marker crayon, a bit of sandpaper to roughen the area, adhesive and last but not least some patches. There’s the fun of finding the hole in the inner tube. Our greenhouse water butt came in handy for dipping the inner tube in to find the leak. The leak was found the patch stuck on and after a lots of messing about the inner tube and tyre were put back onto the wheel rim and the tyre inflated. 
Having checked the tyre this morning the pressure hasn’t gone down so hopefully my efforts have worked. 

4 comments:

  1. Good job Martin, let's hope it holds. My middle boy is dying to have a go with a puncture repair kit. Alas it's slightly outside my field of expertise.

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    1. It's not my field of expertise either CJ but so far so good.

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  2. A friend of ours regularly gets wheelbarrow punctures and solved the problem once and for all by injecting one of those cans of emergency repair foam . . . seems to have worked :-)

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    1. I saw some for sale Jayne. If it becomes a regular occurrence I'll give it a try. Thanks for the tip.

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