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What are you favourite techniques to retain as much sealant as possible when swapping tyres about?


 
Posted : 19/04/2026 4:53 pm
 PJay
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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.


 
Posted : 19/04/2026 4:56 pm
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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.

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Posted : 19/04/2026 5:03 pm
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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. 


 
Posted : 19/04/2026 5:08 pm
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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.  


 
Posted : 19/04/2026 6:08 pm
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Valve core out - syringe it in and syringe it all back out with the tyre still seated, zero mess, zero faff


 
Posted : 19/04/2026 6:24 pm
 LAT
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60ml Stan’s bottle like the Schwalbe one ☝️ 

syringe would be the best way, but I already have the bottle 


 
Posted : 19/04/2026 6:34 pm
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If it's been in there for more than three to four months I just tip it into a bottle and chuck it


 
Posted : 19/04/2026 6:43 pm
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Scoop out with aerosol lid into new tyre 


 
Posted : 19/04/2026 8:40 pm
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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!


 
Posted : 19/04/2026 8:58 pm