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Originally Posted by Croolis
I'm not experienced, but the very notion of doing that just says "no" to me. I'd never stick tyre slime in one either. I wouldn't even use that on my car tyres unless it was dire emrgency, it's horrible stuff and your tyre change place will hate you for it.
How on earth is the boat going to perform if its got solid matter in the tubes, no matter how less dense or aerated it might be? Sounds like a dreadful idea to me <shrug>.
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+1 on that tyre slime stuff. I'm not a fan of it. I've had to clean that up a few times and it's a pain. Instead I carry a plugging kit in my car to get me out of trouble. It'll plug holes bigger than slime will and it's quicker than taking off the wheel and swapping in the spare.
I'd guess a boat would perform ok with solid tubes (pure guesswork though, I've never seen it done well), but getting them filled correctly is the challenge. If the fabric isn't tight, it going to stress fracture after some use on the water.
I heard the person who did it on the boat I worked on had underestimated the cost of the job too. That foam stuff ain't cheap, especially the closed-cell version (it expands far less than open-cell). We reckoned there would have been about 8 cans minimum involved and that much only made a sphere of about 50cm in the rear tubes before they gave up on the job. It's a big boat so I dread to think of what it would cost to fill it completely.
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