Scared of inflating old tires?

Vigo wrote: Maybe i should have mentioned about the youtube videos.. I think there are many where the person in the video ends up dying and they leave it up to your ignorance to not figure that out. So if you don't like watching people get fatal injuries, maybe veer away.

The stuff we saw (for legal reasons as part of the various cases) was just nasty nasty stuff. On the "good" side death was virtually instantaneous. It was the ones that lived (if you could call it that) and there families that I felt bad for.

I have a friend that services split rims for old dump trucks and tractors and there shop has no cage in it period. We went too the same tech school and watched the same safety video, i wont touch a split rim.

I just inflated the original bias-ply F70-15 spare tire I found under my newly purchased '69 corvette.

Didn't die.

I met young man in Miami who survived a split rim explosion. He had a huge crease in his skull that went from over his right eye to just above his left ear. He had major brain damage. Couldn't walk or talk well. Very sad.