TRY THIS WITH PUNCTURED TYRE WHEN IN HASTE

Shannon News, 21 August 1928, Page 4

TRY THIS WITH PUNCTURED TYRE WHEN IN HASTE

ynless there is some obvious cause vL ! puncture, such as a naii’ or a gash, •incl if the tyre has merely subsided slowly and gracefully, try the effect of pumping some air into, it before setting about to change it; The puncture may be so small that the tyre will, if pumped up hal'd, carry you to the nearest' garage; or perhaps nothing more is amiss with it than a faulty yalVe. By moistening your finger- and holding it over the top of the valve you can find :f the air is escaping at that point. It tightening the valve or working it. up rand down until the moving part seats evenly is unavailing it will bo necessary to inserts a new valve centre. These small but useful spares should always be carried. They cost only about 2s a tin of four or six and are invaluable. The nipple cap which screws on to the top. of the valve assembly is generally recessed and cut, so that by reversing it it serves as a valve kov for the-removal-of the old centre and the insertion of a new one. If no spare valve centres ara to hand, screw the nipple*'cap tightly home, seeing first of nil that it has a sound washer on its head. If tho little washer is missing one can foree in a small piece of leather or* old rubber to act as a seal when the cap is tightened on the nipple. .. .