Originally Posted by
Darth Lefty
Funny you should mention Mancos. My mom was from the four corners area, several home towns including Cortez and Shiprock, and my grandparents are buried in Lebanon. My mom and dad spent a summer in Dolores in the mid-2000's, in a travel trailer. She had a cousin in Mancos they would visit often. They had an ambition to do it again or maybe in Durango. But his bum ticker by then couldn't hack the altitude.
One of my kids went to Ft. Lewis for college and lived there for a while. We spent a lot of time in Durango. My dad and mom lived kind of 4 corners adjacent over near Alamosa for about 15 years.
So this is for single-tube tires? Which were more or less like a garden hose, right? With the tube vulcanized to the interior and the tread to the exterior. So this would inject glue inside the puncture and air would push it through the hole. Seemingly thixotropic, maybe solvent, and not liquid latex. You have to wonder if the cement had fillers so as not just all extrude out the hole, and how you'd clean the syringe.
I’m not sure how many applications it could be. It would hold about 10mL of adhesive and, I suspect, it was probably rubber cement. The tire has to have a tube but, from this and instructions I’ve read, they didn’t seem to remove the remove the tire and tube, they just punched through like a plug in threadless tires. I’ve seen other syringe systems that had much more glue in them. I’m not sure how the syringe would be cleaned. Mine is free of residue. The box also says at the bottom to “Use only the Lightning Cement which is red”. That seems to indicate that the syringe was refillable.
The coolest part of this story was the amount of old newspaper articles that are bicycle related from the lated from the late 1800s. There were hundreds of citations which were mostly ads for bicycles and bicycle gear.