[DeTomaso] Tire preservation/red neck science

[Sean Korb]

I think that sounds like fun, but just putting them in a plastic bag
(like a garbage bag) is fine.  You just don't want *more* ozone
getting to the tire.  Ozone is created all the time by sunlight, smog,
fax machines... it's not a stable molecule and it's reactive.  Once
all the ozone in the bag reacts (just a tiny tiny amount) there won't
be more to replenish it.

Overkill is everything though.  Maybe an inert gas replacement like
filling the bag with argon would evacuate more oxygen molecules than a
vacuum pump?  An advantage to the vacuum pump would be the bags
wouldn't look... baggy.

sean

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 12:14 PM, robert simpson
<r.simpson35 at verizon.net> wrote:
> I just read in a post here that ozone is the main culprit in the degradation
> of tires while in long term storage.  So if oxygen degrades stored food just
> as ozone degrades tire compounds, would a sealed oxygen/ozone  free
> environment preserve the tires?  This is where I am going, I use a vacuum
> sealer to preserve my long term storable food.  The vacuum  process removes
> the oxygen and seals the product bag.  Would a tire, sealed in a
> polyethylene bag and vacuum sealed, extend the life of the tire? I actually
> have bags that (not designed for food but for sealing)that would accommodate
> a tire that fits a stock Pantera wheel.   The bags are used to vacuum seal
> very large items and have a one way valve built in to allow for the vacuum
> process to maintain a seal.
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> "Improvise adapt and overcome"
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> Just wondering.
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> Bob
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