Thread: whitewall tyres can be hand made?

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Hello
i have a question...

a white wall tyre can be handmade??

Sorry if my question is too stupid... i just saw a machine to make white wall tyres and i thought... this is only paint? can i do it on any tyre?

yep , you can make yourself a neato tool that will work dandy. Get a good natural bristle brush, some white rubber paint. take the brush, put a peice of angle steel on it that bends, position a bend so it is like an L on the wheel, get a roller skate wheel and put it on the side that will rub the bottom of the tire, now you hold the brush where the white goes, the roller skate wheel rides on the tire bottom and paint away, jack up car first, then spin wheel. steady hand works too

this is awsome
it means i'll have whitewall tyres for a good price
I'll order a small can to try fist.
I found one guy on ebay selling some kind of special paint..

"The paint features a special formula which means it will never crack or flake off.It is also suitable for spraying on provided you thin it 50% with cellulose thinners."

Don't know iof they still do it...but when I was in college I worked at Firestone retread shop......they actually had a mold that melted a whitwall on to blackwall tire.....but then that was 40 yrs ago......lol.

lol maybe now they do it other way eheh
anyway i'll order a can of white wall paint and try... i'll post pics later here maybe will be usefull for someone else with a low budget

In whitewall tire construction, a wide band of white rubber is placed underneath the outer layer of black rubber. These two layers carry no weight and hold no air. They are a facade, covering the integral parts of the tire; plies, belts, liner, chafer, bead, etc. Then the whole "green" tire is pressed into a mold and cured with heat. The mold leaves the tread design on the outer circumference, as well as any lettering, beauty rings, safety and load warnings, etc. on the sidewall. Still all covered with the outer black rubber skin. Then the black rubber is buffed away, in the prescribed areas, to reveal the white rubber. there is a machine made to do this with.