Don't flame me for bringing up the dreded tire flap topic, I've made the decision to use flaps on my 21" demountable rims. But, my question is . . . I have obtained the typical rubber tire flaps as well as two canvas strips that were used as flaps at some point in time. This is new to me, not being rubber. I obviousely have four rubber flaps to use, but the canvas flap intriques me as these will go on my WWI ambulance project. Adn, a military or Red Cross motor pool would have used the resources available to get a vehicle back into service. So, these canvas flaps have seen their better days and I would not reuse them, but use them as a pattern to reconstruct new canvas webbing flaps.
Is there something I need to be aware of in attempting to use canvas webbing instead of rubber? Moisture retention? Scuffing?
I will sand and treat the rims prior to installation to get them as smooth as possible and my experience in the WWII combat rim flap installation is that 75 prcent of the requirement for them was not pinching the tube during installation and 25 percent tube protection during use. So, I'm thinking the same.
Thoughts?
And, when we are done discussing this, we can move on to Marvel Mystery Oil .
