Tire patching way back when

[unspellable]

It just tells you they over engineered the thing, didn't need all those parts after all.

Walked in to a Norton store. At the parts counter I glanced in to the shop and saw a literal basket case. Parts in several baskets. I said to the counter guy, "There must be a story there." He said, "Poor little rich kid. Daddy bought him a shiny new Norton. He had to take it apart to see what made it work."

 

[Tensaw]

It's called Vulcanizing...heating of rubber to make it stronger and harder...used in the tires but not so much in the tube....

Yes, for the tire not the tube.

 

[john guedry]

My dad (1902- 1977) was an expert at fixing flats on the side of the road. As he explaind to me when he left on a trip, it was not a question of if you got a flat,but how many, you would get.

 

[GypsmJim]

My dad (1902- 1977) was an expert at fixing flats on the side of the road. As he explaind to me when he left on a trip, it was not a question of if you got a flat,but how many, you would get.

My Grandpa (1896-1978) said the same thing. Of course, he was talking about life in the 1920's.

He also worked at a local Ford dealer. He would get a new Model T every year. "New" meant new to him. He always got a trade-in that had just been serviced, then trade it back a year later.

 

[rovernut]

In my day, those were the really low-cut things that didn't even cover the entire shoe. Men wore them over their wingtips in "damp" weather.

Yeah, I was talking about that style.
Galoshes were what I wore as a kid in the winter that were 10 or 12" tall with metal buckles that invariably got packed with snow and froze solid
Have much preferred my Sorels for the last 45 years.

Cheers