Whenever I have to get a new tube for my uni or bike, I don’t like throwing out the old tube, cause it’s a lot of good rubber. So, I like to think of things to do with them.
I’m devoting this thread to coming up with good/creative uses. I’ll start off, most creative answer gets +1000 points.
Cut cross-sections make good rubber bands.
Great slingshots.
Padding for my muni frame so my boot eyelets don’t scratch it up.
They sound cool when you blow them up and they explode.
DarkTom
September 14, 2006, 12:32pm
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Using as patches for puncture repairs.
T.
inflate them and make ballon animals?
hahaha
you could use them to make a pattern in the holes of the frame…like the koxx
Im with Darktom, I use mine for spare patches instead of buying new tubes. Although, the tube would have to be pretty f**ked before I would cut it up, I try make the most of them!
Rock on!
Yeah, I patch all my flats. I only replace a tube if a patch fails and screws up the tube, or if the valve goes bad.
Oh yeah, and +500 points for most practical.
Resistance workouts. Step on one end of the tube, then do curls / butterflies with the other. Tie one end to a tree and do pull downs / crunches / kicks. ROCK HARD ABS in 6 weeks or your money back, GUARANTEED!
skrobo
September 14, 2006, 6:21pm
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get a car inner tube and blow it up
I’ve been told they are great for starting fires…
Ha ha! Good one…Scrunchies! Some of those…things you put on your glasses so they don’t fall off…Am I the only one who wears glasses around here?
skrobo
September 14, 2006, 6:29pm
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3 man water balloon launcher
i have scraps of old inner tube all over my unicycles. mostly in places where i don’t want metal touching other metal. between my black seatpost and some hose clamps, for example. i also use them as shims in various spots.
I use them as loose junk to make my bedroom look messier.
Jerrick
September 14, 2006, 10:41pm
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Two friends of mine take their old tubes. cut them down the middle so it becomes a long flat section of rubber, and then they line their tires with it.
onelesscar:
Cut cross-sections make good rubber bands.2) Great slingshots. 3) Padding for my muni frame so my boot eyelets don’t scratch it up.
They sound cool when you blow them up and they explode.
someones been watching their Macguyver
Wikipedia:
MacGyver destroys a building with a propane tank, a grindstone, and some ball bearings. He lets the gas from the tank loose and switches on the grindstone. From outside, he shoots the ball bearings into the building at the grindstone. Although he doesn’t hit the grindstone, the bad guy he is after shoots a crossbow into the building, and does hit the grind stone. A spark ignites the gas, and the building is flattened. Approximate time: 35:45. Natural, propane gas as well as gasoline alcohol and paint thinner will ignite and holds the potential to violently explode, if the mixture is correct. A low gas to air mix will result in more of a rolling fire ball, which is what special effects probably used for the shot. The next level of mix will violently explode and will flatten a house. Too much gas will not explode as in a “flooded” automobile motor. Two good sources of remote ignition exist in some homes. First is the pilot light in gas appliances, second is that electric motors while running will spark around the electrical contact point with the armature.In order to launch the above mentioned ball bearings at a high enough rate of speed to build a spark, MacGyver must build a slingshot. He uses a bicycle and some old tubing to do it. He pulls the handlebar grips off the bike and covers the exposed metal on each side with parts of the tubing. Then he replaces the grips over that tubing, giving him a tight but elastic portion of tubing. That’s his slingshot. Approximate time: 36:15. Despite MacGyver’s best efforts, an eagle he is trying to save doesn’t make it, and its young are at stake. After hang gliding to the nest on top of a butte in Monument Valley, Utah, MacGyver brings the eggs back to the house where this episode takes place. To give the young a chance, he builds an incubator with padding from a chair and vegetable oil. As MacGyver puts it, “the oil combines with the fibers in the padding to create a low level spontaneous combustion,” generating heat. Approximate time: 45:15
You can actually use a cut of the old tire itself to do this, especially if you get “bubbles” where the tube splits out from the time.
They are keeping secret the fact that they have invented a permanent innre tube that NEVER needs to be replaced. It can never be punctured.
The inner tube industry is keeping this a secret from you.
Not only that, but nearly 30% of land fill space is now occupied by inner tubes, because they are not biodegradable.
5% of the space is disposable diapers.
What, solid rubber? I think that leaves the realm of pneumatic tires…
