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[Closed] Adding top up sealant to tyres = adding weight?

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Just something that I've wondered about:

I add 60ml (.'. ~60g) of sealant to my tyres (Hans Dampf = 750g claimed). Total 810g
After a few months the sealant disappears. I top up with another 60g. What's the total weight of my tyre + sealant now?

Also: If the sealant has all dried up into that spiky ball thing, should I retrieve the ball before topping up the tyre? Does it act like a snowball, causing more of the fresh goo to stick to it?


 
Posted : 28/05/2013 7:53 pm
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Some of the original gloop will have evaporated (which is why it's now a sticky ball rather than a liquid). So it won't weigh as much. I couldn't tell you by how much though.

I guess you [i]could[/i] retrieve the spiky ball thing. I've not noticed it especially attracting more goo. Thorns seem to attract it though.


 
Posted : 28/05/2013 8:03 pm
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Most of the weight is water, which drys out, so the residue left weighs next to nothing, although I have no scientific evidence to support it...
I've never bothered about my spikey balls...


 
Posted : 28/05/2013 8:03 pm
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there are spikey balls???

Oh now I just want to look inside my tyres!


 
Posted : 28/05/2013 8:11 pm
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there are spikey balls???

Yes and if you don't keep topping up with Stan's it will puncture your tyre from the inside out ๐Ÿ˜ฏ

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Posted : 28/05/2013 8:16 pm
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So how do you know when it's time to top up? Just when you can no longer hear the stuff sloshing around?


 
Posted : 28/05/2013 8:34 pm
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exactley


 
Posted : 28/05/2013 8:36 pm