re: "I would advise against relying on a 15 year old tire as a "spare"..."
Never said the spare was 15 YO.
If fact, the spare is newer than the 2 tires that are on the axle, but it doesn't match and the tread pattern is different.
The plan is to buy 2 new tires, retain the current spare as a spare and cleanup all 3 rims.
Smitty Two wrote in news:prestwhich- snipped-for-privacy@mx01.eternal-september.org:
compared to chemicals or beadblasting,I guess.
IIRC,sandblasting removes more material you don't want removed.(metal)
I've just seen it being done on a couple of TV auto shows. Muscle Car Workout(MCW) on WDBS CH.15 Daytona Beach(PBS),and IIRC,SpeedChannel's Chop,Cut,and Rebuild (CCR) It stripped the paint off a car body pretty quick,right down to bare metal. MCW used it on the car body and the frame.
It ain't the blasting media that is non-green in most cases. (I used sandbox sand last time I blasted something.) It is the crud that is stripped off the work that is toxic. Old lead paint, chemical residue, etc. Most cities require tenting when blasting building faces and such. Don't think anybody cares about a guy in a backyard, but the neighbors might.
Sada blasting is good for removing paint - not so good for rust.
Perhaps not, but on 10/4/2010 at 3:00 PM (my EDT) You included the spare in the following ambiguous paragraph.
"I can get some mid-range tires, same size as the originals (which have been on the trailer for 15 years) - $69 each, mounted and balanced. I only need 2, as the spare is fine".
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