This morning, on this lovely Sunday morning, we did some maintenance tasks,
like for example, repair the puncture we got in one of the tyres of the
large flatbed trolley.
Large-Trolley-Old-Tyre
It was a devil to get the tyre off the metal wheel rim, but after surfing
the net, we wiggled and heaved and levered the tyre off and pulled out the
inner tube. The little hole in the inner tube was located and patched up.
The tyre itself was thrown away as the rubber has cracked under the pressure
of heavy loads we had on the trolley over the years, and this was what
caused the puncture where the inner tube was “bursting” out!!
We also gave the whole metal wheel a thorough rub with an angle grinder with
the wire brush attachment and now is drying in the lovely sunshine with a
fresh coat of black metal paint!!
Large-Trolley-New-Tyre
One done and three to go! But first, we will order some spare inner tubes,
just in case we mess one up trying to get the tyre off etc.