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Subject: Mainwheel punctures
From: Alan D Stewart <alan.stewart@blueyonder.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 18:13:06

Hi Jerry and Forum,

Are you refering to a puncture on the mainwheel of the mono variant ? 

I suspect not. Does your advice apply to this situation as well ?
(avoiding lower tyre pressure).

How many out there have suffered a mono mainwheel puncture, particularly
away from home ?

... and how have you resolved the issue ? 

Like a random prop strike, it's one of the scenarios that I dread. I can
imagine being completely stuck !

Alan


-----Original Message-----
From: forum-owner@europaclub.org.uk
Subject: Re:  


One of my customers has had several punctures. The rest of us have had
few
with more hours. Perhaps he chooses bad fields but someone who may know
suggested his punctures were due to low tyre pressures. He checked and
found
his were low (not just the punctured one). I have no idea if low
pressure
does make a tyre prone to puncture but its worth checking the pressures
in
any case. Being a bit woolly on top I have taken to writing my correct
tyre
pressures on the wheel rims in white paint so I don't have to look it
up.

Jerry
                    Jerry@ban-bi.com   or    LTS@avnet.co.uk
                    www.Ban-bi.com     or   www.avnet.co.uk/touchdown
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Taylor" <kevin@eastyorkshire.co.uk>
Subject: 


> What a bugger I had my second puncture in a fortnight yesterday and
had to
> leave the plane as I didn't have the tools or inner tube to repair it!
(Nose
> wheel last time, starboard this time)
>
> Something tells me its time to carry spare tubes (x2 one for the nose
and
a
> main) and some tools to split the rims.
>
> I bet once I carry these tools Ill not get another puncture for years!
>
> Interested to hear if anyone else is carrying a emergency
spares/repair
kit
> and what is in it?
>
> Annoyingly the weather has turned bad here today and so it looks like
the
> plane will be stuck there for a few days.
>
> Regards
>
> Kev T
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