Sealant question

[Mudsimus]

Maybe I watch to much crime channel...but ethylene glycol poisoning is a popular husban killer.. It has a sweet taste..so they just mix it into your coffee..

[brussel]

 

clearly you watch waaaaay to much TV

[Mutt]

anybody tried mixing OKO with a more fluid sealant?

 

 

 

Yes - I got a cheap thinner one from Makro because I found the OKO was a bit thick and took an age to seal the tyre first time. I put in about 1/4 thin sealant and 3/4 OKO and it worked very well.

[Hairy]

I found OKO too thick. Even mixed it up with some Stans to help this out later.

 

 

 

It seals holes well, but then so does Stans.

 

 

 

Prefer Stans as it is more effective at getting around the tyre side wall and I also found sealed off my non-UST tyres far better than OKO.

 

 

 

H

[NotSoBigBen]

I am not a fan of OKO period. Find that Stans/Joes is far more effective at sealing especially for the first time inflation!

 

Once the tyre is well sealed to the rim/conversion for tubeless tyres and all the wee holes are sealed in the sidewalls of non tubeless tyres then I guess you can put almost any old sealant in and it will be OK.

 

But as some have said Stans/Joes works!

[rad006]

Dont mix anything with OKO!!!

Enough said each to their own I guess!!

[Cassie]

Sorry Rad,

 

but OKO mixed with a little bit of any other liquid sealant is da best!!

 

Works like a charm for me....

 

Until I've seem the technical specs of OKO, or seen a concrete reason why OKO should be used on it's own....

 

OKO has the best sealing fiber capabilities and for those pesky microscopic holes (eg. non UST tyres)...a wee bit of liquid sealant works well...

 

 

[rad006]

Im just worried that whatever you guys mix with OKO will effect its performance and then what? OKO will be a bad product will it not?

 

I mean you dont go mixing stuff with your toothpaste to give you a better clean do you? No you use another product.

All im saying is it was designed to be used as is. I havent had any issues with thickness being a problem. Maybe my installations are better than yours?

[mtb_Josh]

I dont want any ethylene glycol in my house. Just incase I piss my wife off..

 

 

 

Well the antidote for ethylene glycol poisoning is alcohol... (Just incase)

[andretraut]

I use Stan's neat in my tubeless setup, and so far I have not experienced any problems. Keep you bike as light as possible, and avoid heavy mixtures with OKO. 

[Cassie]

Rad, I hear you....

 

I've only had good things to report about OKO...

It's only for ease of use - if one add a little bit of liquidy sealant together with OKO then the sidewall seals immediately (in NON UST set-ups) wherea s pure OKO will just take a bit longer...that's all.

 

Either way - IMHO still way beter than just any old thin liquid sealant!!

 

different strokes for different folks, I guess.

 

[bak2basiks]

I did the tubeless conversions on the weekend (non-tubeless tires on non-tubeless rims) with Stan's....it worked well.....actually, it worked very well....!! Sealed them leaks damn quickly...

[Weight Weenie]

I think maybe the best would be to initially do the conversion with stans and then after the sideawalls are sealed add a thicker and cheaper sealant once the stans begin to dry.

 

I see the use of the liquid sealant for the intial proces, what would the pros and cons be of thin vs. thick sealants for plugging holes ?

Maybe the thicker one will seal bigger holes and/or glass cuts, small sidewall cuts where the thin sealant cant ?

 

Also, does oko have amoniak, ie. making the tyres bubble ?

I think most sealants do(stans and joes), though Sludge has one that is amonium/ak free ?

 

WW.

[MTB Kid]

Not sure how OKO compares, but this is a test STAN did a while ago in the US - silenced all the critics.

 

Yes, shelf cost is slightly higher, but STAN's outlasts all it's competition. http://www.notubes.com/movie_sealant.php

[Rapunzel]

sounds feesible to use a more liquid sealant on the first round as the tires I've purchased are reported to leak a bit of air through the side walls initially (specialized). How many of you folks using only stans are riding through areas full of duiweltjies (spelling??)

[Hairy]

sounds feesible to use a more liquid sealant on the first round as the tires I've purchased are reported to leak a bit of air through the side walls initially (specialized). How many of you folks using only stans are riding through areas full of duiweltjies (spelling??)

 

 

 

I ride through those bastard thorns on a regular basis and when I do hit a clump of them I pick up plenty in one go.

 

 

 

Stans seals the holes quickly and effectively.

 

 

 

Worst case scenario you loose a bit of air when your tires are literally covered in thorns ... a bit of air from your pump and you are going again with no issues.

 

 

 

The thinner sealant (i.e Stans) gets to work on those leaky side walls in a flash.

 

 

 

H