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Expanding Foam in Flat Wheelbarrow Tire (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Bought a house a few months ago and the previous owner left a wheelbarrow with a flat tire. Was going to get a new tire for it but then I saw a stupid "expanding foam hacks" video on Facebook that auto played and they put foam in a tire to get it "inflated" again. Has anyone done this and had luck with it? Out of curiosity and to save my cheap ass a few dollars.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I had the exact same thing happen to me (previous owner left old wheelbarrow). And what I did was take the wheel off, pop the tire out and put a bicycle patch on the hole in the tube. Good as new.

That being said I put probably 25+ bicycle tire patches on in my life, so it was cake for me.