Brace yourself for 23 seconds of brillian WTF. First person who can explain why this works (I’m assuming this actually does work) wins a free set of BuckyBalls. How fun is that?
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April 20th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
It doesn’t really inflate the tire it can only be used to set it on a rim. The WD40, when ignited, heats the air in the tire causing it to expand and the tire sets over the rim! It’s fun but doesn’t inflate a deflated tire.
April 20th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
could be that everyone is on it and it is filmed backwards.
April 20th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
By putting a flammable gas around the rim of the tire and then lighting the gas, you create a vaccum that sucks up the air around it, in this case, sucking the tire onto the rim. It stills need to be filled with air though. It is mainly used to get a tire back over the rim if it has been pulled off.
April 20th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
here is another video showing how it works.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/194220/fix_a_tire/
April 20th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
The reason it works is because the intense heat that occurs within less than a second is enough to cause the air particles to rapidly increase in speed. The faster the molecules move, the more area they take up. For example, water molecules in ice move slow and that is why they turn into a solid. If you get the water molecules to move faster, it will become liquid and then eventually a gas. With this tire, the air molecules heat up fast enough and need room to expand. The only place it can go is back onto the rim of the tire. The tire may of not been flat but rather off of the rim. This is the basic idea behind it.
P.S. A cool way to demonstrate this is to put a helium balloon in the freezer, it will sink when you take it out. If you blow on it with a hair-dryer it will rise again!! Fun!!
April 20th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
It’s not actually inflated, it just seems that way because there is hot air inside.
They are using ether to seal the bead of the tire, which allows it to again hold air.
The vaporized fluid in the tire explodes and resets the tire on the bead. Instead of a heavy bead he just used his starter fluid to shoot a flame in there, similar to a match and can of hairspray flame thrower.
April 20th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Here’s my educated guess. Don’t fail me now chemistry.
He sprays the tire all around which the flamable liquid from the spray can. When lit, the intense heat causes the air molecules in the tire to move faster, thus expanding the tire.
SELF EXPERIment-try heating and cooling a baloon, it gets bigger and smaller.
April 20th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
I believe that it is not actually inflating it to a usable degree but in fact is “seating the bead” of the tyre.
By spraying lighter fluid inside the wheel and then setting it alight creates an expansion of the air, it will cause the bead to reseat and the fire will go out due to lack of o2.
April 20th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Not sure how it works, but here’s another example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M0GNLvPmAg
it looks like it creates a vacuum inside the tire, because you can see it keeps squeezing and almost crushes the tire until the guy with the air-pump starts filling it up.
April 20th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
hot air expands and keeps the tire tight, but it only works while it’s still hot
where are my bucky balls?
April 20th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
The fire creates a barrier around the rim and the tire while the fire creates hot air. The explosion of the fluid becoming a hot gas and expanding inflates the tire.
April 20th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
i got this from fark. it makes sense. the hot air expands to re-pressurize the tire and it seats itself.
“BIg offroad tires like that run at really low pressure, so it’s not uncommon to just knock the tire off the rim of the wheel. The tire isn’t damaged, just out of place. To get it back in the right place he filled the tire with flammable gas and lit it. The combustion created a large volume of gas in a moment, which expanded and shoved the tire back onto the rim of the wheel.”
-Dubai Vol
http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4151537
and from this video, you can see it collapsing, probably b/c the air cooled off like ancalavera said.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M0GNLvPmAg
April 20th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
and it actually doesn’t inflate it, it just fixes the tire fitting it to the rim.
April 21st, 2009 at 1:47 am
Danget, haha. I got second place AGAIN!!!!!!!