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Posted 4/16/2025 12:47 (#11191308 - in reply to #11190744)
Subject: RE: Why is welding on a mounted tire dangerous?



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junk fun - 4/15/2025 22:47
HedgeCotton - 4/15/2025 13:29 ...There has been numerous documented cases of tires blowing up and killing people or destroying their lives...
Have any of those been caused by welding on a rim with a tire mounted but the bead broken, or the valve core removed? Because there are lots of cases of tires blowing up and killing people who have never welded a second in their life, and without the rim having ever been welded, but that's not going to stop us from using tires, or stop most of us from adding air to tires that are low.


Comes down to calculated risk. The number of tires that explode simply during inflation COMPARED against the number of tires inflated across the country in a year has to be way under 1%. I would venture to guess that the number of rims welded on per year is way than 1% of the # of tires inflated per year, but of that number, I am certain it's well over 1% that experience catastrophic failure while welding. No different than "fill that fuel barrel up with water and start welding"... how dumb do you have to be to be so impatient that you can't break a bead and jam some sort of physical blocking device between the bead and the rim before you weld on it? It's not like you have to dismount the thing completely or even remove the wheel from the machine. Sure people seat semi tires without a cage, yet another "why would you do that" question. You're mounting them anyway, the hard part is done, cage the thing. Ignorance is one thing, but we spread the word here enough that most everybody is aware that welding on rims with seated tires can result in catastrophic, life changing, and sometimes life ending outcomes. For some people it's probably that deal where if it hasn't hit home they ridicule those who take it serious. Looks different when you lose a friend of family member in a preventable accident I assure you. 

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