“I put enough in the tire so it will flow around the tire as I’m rolling it,” Tainter says. ![]() tall tractor tires that are cracked, well worn and don’t hold air very well. He’s also used his home-brewed mixture on 28 in. “It works well just about every time,” Tainter says. He puts the slime over the roughed up surface, then installs the tube or fills a tubeless tire with air. On most tires that he fixes Tainter removes the valve stem, cleans out the tire and then roughs up the inside surface. The mixture also works as a sealant around the edges of tires. Tainter stores the mixture in a jug and pumps it into a tube or a tire with a hand held pump. “If you don’t put that in, it’s probably not going to work.” “The pepper serves to plug a tiny air leak in a tube or a tire,” Tainter says. When the mixture turned thicker, he added a small amount of ground black pepper. He heated water on the stove and added starch until the mixture was the consistency of oatmeal. Tainter mixed up his own tire sealer using corn starch and water. One day I figured there had to be a way to make my own slime for a lot less money.” “I fix a lot of tires for my part time lawn mower repair business,” Tainter says, “and I used to go through a lot of commercial tire slime that cost more than $20 a gallon. ![]() He’s always looking for ways to save a few bucks and he found a good one when he figured out how to make his own tire slime. Elwood Tainter is semi-retired and living on a fixed income.
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