What are you favourite techniques to retain as much sealant as possible when swapping tyres about?
I just pop the bead off at the bottom of the tyre (holding the wheel off the ground) and use a syringe to suck the sealant out & squirt it back in the bottle.
I have an old 60ml bottle of Schwalbe sealant which has a nozzle on the end; you can use it to suck up all the sealant.
I use the old red cup that used to come with Stans to scoop it, straight into the new tyre. Gets most of it out.
Those little plastic cups you'd buy in a tube of 25 or 50 for squash at kids' parties. Nice and flexible and conform to the tyre. Gets most of it in one scrape. A syringe would help grab the last but normally I don't bother.
They're cheap and we use them for model making and other stuff. I know it's plastic but we do use them until they fall to bits.
Valve core out - syringe it in and syringe it all back out with the tyre still seated, zero mess, zero faff
60ml Stan’s bottle like the Schwalbe one ☝️
syringe would be the best way, but I already have the bottle
If it's been in there for more than three to four months I just tip it into a bottle and chuck it
Try to pour it from one tyre into the other making a big mess and getting 50% max into the new tyre….I'm going to adopt one of the techniques above, thanks!
I use a straw - if you’re quick you don’t swallow any of it
Remove the wheel from the bike without spinning it, or if spinning is unavoidable, leave wheel to stand for a while to let sealant migrate to the bottom. Carefully removed tyre without rotating wheel. Transfer insert from old tyre straight to new tyre. Mount one side of bead of new tyre. Bend bead of old tyre into a V over new tyre and pour in, this takes a bit of skill. Go have a cup of tea or safety beer while leaving old tyre to stand for a bit. Repeat V pour to get a bit more of the remaining sealant out, then wipe inside of old tyre clean if keeping. Add a little top up of sealant to new tyre for good measure, mount bead and inflate.
I have a little scoopy thing with a side handle from I stole from some Vanish stain remover stuff that is perfect for getting sealant out of a half demounted tyre (with the little beady things Vittoria put in theirs, syringes won't pick those up so easily).
I pour it in a temporary container like an old jam Jar or ice cream tub (ideally with minimal contaminants).
You can then use the same scoop to pour it back in to the new tyre when the bead is like 3/4 mounted... Almost never fails*
A large volume re-usable veterinary syringe (see ebay) makes sucking out sealant easier, they don't get blocked up as they're high flow rate.
+1 for aerosol lid (one without a hole!)
Oh and maybe a swap of sealant. I use Oko's Hi Fibre (same as Halo) and it's water soluble so you can re-dilute it with water, which makes it easier to reuse. It also washes out easier than stans. (it's not a total cure this, you can't redilute it once it's dried out fully)
Scoop out with aerosol lid into new tyre
This. But I scoop it out into a small measuring jug so I can make sure I get the right amount in the new tyre.
As recommended on here, I purchased one of the fat syringe kits for sucking and injecting sealant. As on Amazon for £12
I use it every time... However, I'm so stupid and hamfisted, I tend to spill more sealant using it than I used to using the old aerosol lid method. Eg, I unscrew the sucker tube before emptying the fluid out. Or, last time decided I needed to inject more fluid and poured it in the top with the plunger down. I'm good me.
