tall_martin
Full Member
I bought some muckoff stuff and used that on another rim- it went on brilliantly.
Unfortunately the Tesla tape and muck off tape I have are both too narrow for this rim.
Mentioned this above but it bears repeating, one thing to note is that a lot of rims don’t need to be taped full width- a welded rim (which most quality rims are) is already airtight except for the holes. That didn’t used to matter much, but modern rims got so wide that often you can simply tape the middle, in the recess, and not tape the parts where the tyre touches at all. This works miles better, because since the tyre doesn’t touch the tape, it doesn’t get stuck to it, and there’s no chance of it pushing the tape off as you remove the tyre- #1 reason for having to retape a rim ime.
Most of my rims now are done this way, just 2 wraps of PVC/electric tape in the centre recess, wide enough to safely cover the holes but not wide enough to contact the tyre. You basically never have to redo it unless you break a spoke.
(there’s no middle ground here though- if the tape’s not as wide as the tyre, but wide enough that it goes out of the recess, then the tyre will probably tear the tape off the first time you remove it)
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