The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1942-01-15
Issues Wurning
Concerning Tires

Concerning Tires
Tom D. Caverly this week
warned motorists about fake re-
treads and other tire repairs
which might not be done prop
erly. He also clarified other
matters in connection with tire
rationing.
He pointed out that since
there is no restriction on re-
treading and recapping tires at
present, certain INSCRIPTIONS
persons are practicing trlckery
in this field.
He explained that new tires
are capable of sustaining the
strain of high speed driving
but emphasized that a patched
up tire cannot stand high air
pressure (Which increases in ra-
ito to the speed tn car is drlv-
en- and is a menace when IN
use.
Some of the tricks resorted
to in taking repairs, Mr.. Cav
erly said, are as follows:
Big cuts are filled with tire
dough-" a soft kind Of rubber
material, and this is merely
smoothed over by pressing with
a hot iron instead of being
baked in by vulcanizing.
Where breaks are so bio they
cannot be cleverly concealed by
ironing tire dough" into them,
the break is first patched with
a boot and friction tape and
then concealed with a coating
of melted rubber.
Incompetent tire repairers
sometimes cut too deeply into
the surface when re-grooving
treads. They cover up their
blunder by painting the cut
with melted rubber, and then
try to pass off the tire as a le-
Ultimate retread.
When a motorist considers
purchasing used tires, Mr.. Cav
erly said, he should first take
into account the reputation OF
the person or firm with whom
he is dealing.
If a reputable tire retreadel
says a tire is too worn to be
worth retreading, take his wore
for it, the state rationing officer
says. Taken into consideration
by a careful dealer are the
depth of cuts through rubber
fabric, whether beads are chafec
or cracked too much, condition
of sidewall cracks, and whether
there is a tread separation dam
age caused when fabric body
and rubber have separated be-
cause of the strain of repeated
under-inflation.
A tire should be re-groovec
when the treads are worn al
most to the bottom of the non
skid designs at the center OF
road contact, it was polntec
out. When the re-cut design has
in turn worn almost to the bot
tom of the groove, the tire must
be re-capped. Only tires above
the so-called second line 'o1
quality are safe for retreadlng
according to Mr.. Caverly, anc
then should never be driven al
high speeds.
In clarifying some of the reg
ulations. Mr.. Caverly said thai
it makes no difference whether
tires have been sold and paid fol-
before the date on which ra-
tioning took effect. If delivery
was not babe before Dec. IL
1941, tires cannot be delivered
without the proper certificate
from the rationing board of a
county. No new tires are to be
delivered, shipped, traded or
given away without a certifi-
cate, except to the army, and
then they must be paid for di-
rectly by the army and not by
any individual.
The county quota is respon-
sible for highway patrol and
other state cars domiciled and
garaged in the county. The GER
tificates must be issued here
and then sent to Helena by the
patrolman or his supervisor. Ra-
tioning boards are asked to
give patrolmen all leeWay pos
sible, for patrolmen must ira
vel at high speeds. 1t was sta
ted that an effort would be
made to grant an extension ii
the quota suffered too much
but this may not be possible.
It was also pointed out that