CMP wheel details

[Bob Carriere]

Tony

Hereunder is a snap shot of my oldest tire from my cab 11.... I have not had the heart to take it apart as it still hold 50 pounds of 1940 Canadian air.... cracks are 1/4 wide and 1/2 deep.

Will have to clean it up to see if there are any old stamps on it. The other 3 tires are dated 1943 and surely are not original to my 40 cab 11. The rims I am using are from assorted cab 13 cmps and usually badly rusted. I used a rural tractor tire shop to remove the tires... they had to use a 40 ton press to remove the tires from the rims. The rubber and fabric was welded to the rims.

Cleaning up was using a air powered needle descalling gun to peel back the rubber abd fabric that was left attached to the rim.
My better ones still had the ribbing you showed... the needle gun was followed by sandblasting.

And old guy showed my how to ring them with a hammer.... if you get a flat tone better to discard as it is probably cracked.

My new Army NDT Canadian surplus 9:00x16 fitted like a glove mainly due to metal removed by cleaning up and the slick black POR 15 paint I had applied on all sides.

Can hardly wait for the Warm weather to come back.

1943 tire... : This is what it looked like after de-rimming....

..and the rim looked... like a basket case...... Oh YES..... I did wear hearing protectors when using the descaling gun....... neighbours came over they thought I was beating the begeez out of a cow bell......