• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Sealing Spoke rims Pt 2

ducatijohn

ducatijohn

Husqvarna
A Class
Now that my rims are spotless, I'm ready to put the first layer of sealer on. In order to run tires tubeless, you must ensure that your rims have a safety bead on them. See photo below.View attachment 34328

Pencil is pointing at safety bead. Also note that you must tape the hole in the end of the valve stem to keep it free of sealant. (Blue painters Tape)

I am using GE Aluminum/Metal Silicone II. The only place I found this is at Ace Hardware; Home Depot and Lowes does not carry it.

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Note how the spokes are recessed into the nipple on my rim. The recess is at least an eighth inch deep, which helps because it will be easier to force to silicone into this to create an airtight seal. I used latex gloves and forced the silicone into each nipple. See photo below.

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When completed it should look like this. I took a while, I have to do this to 4 wheels. Now I'll let it sit for at least 24 hours and then put a layer that covers the nipple completely. Next post to follow.
 
Others have tried it and they claimed it worked for thousands of miles. I believe there's a company in CA that also does this for about $75 per wheel. I'm pretty confidant that it will be successful, I just have to take my time, don't rush it and do a thorough job.
 
no reason it shouldn't work for a supermoto. wire wheels on cars (think silly little mexican "Daytons") are sealed in a similar manner.

Don't see it working at low PSI trail duty though. even with the safety beads, the tire would likely still burp air or peel the bead off.
 
Sealed my tyres using 3M sealing tape, 3 wheels completed so far, a year on 2, 18 months on the 3rd.
 
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