I have an old wheelbarrow with an inflatable tube tire. I have repaired a hole in it but need to know what the air pressure should be when I fill it. There is a label on the wheel rim that I believe gives the pressure, but the numbers are obscured. Any ideas?
Mine are rated at 50 PSI, but I usually keep about 70-80 PSI. It helps with cornering and braking. Plus you can get a hell of a bounce going when you are going down a set of steps. Watch out for those spontaneous decompressions, though. They can put an eye out.
I am glad you asked and didn't just go out there and do the wrong thing. So many things must be considered:
What will be the ambient temperature?
Will you be hauling heavy or light materials?
How fast will you be going?
What kind of ground will you be covering, rough or smooth?
Does the barometric pressure in your area vary greatly?
The proper care and maintenence of wheelbarrows requiress a high caliber spendy pressure gauge, storage in a temperature/humidity controlled environment, proper rotation, regular air changes, and regular inspections by a qualified expert.
But, if you are like the rest of us, you just put enough in it to make it easy to push.
I don't have a clue, nor do I care. I fill it until it is hard enough to not sag when loaded. This is not like a finely tuned race car at 185 mph where a couple of pounds means losing control in the turns.
Speak for yourself. Some of us do indeed run high performance wheelbarrows, and losing control in a turn with a full load of compost onboard could be very ugly indeed.
Take it to a full-service tire store (one that also does farm-industrial tires) and pay them 20 bucks to put a new tube or whatever in it. I did that for a handtruck with leaky Chinese tubes in the tires, and it was worth the money to watch the tire guy fighting with those tiny rims, jumping on them to set the beads, etc. I about bust a gut trying not to laugh. And it hasn't leaked down in 8 years.
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