I just glued my first set of wheels. It took an entire 25 gm tube of conti cement to coat the cloth on the tire and 3 coats on the rim. Is this too much? Since there has been all of the question about wheel weight tubies ve clinchers, vs tubular-clincher, has this been figured in?
Wow, that is alot of glue. Did you glue it to a carbon rim?
Too much glue can be a weaker bond than too little, and of course the ensuing mess, etc can be a problem as well.
I’m not an authority on the subject, although I’ve used, glued and sold tubulars for 11 years, I’d suggest 1 tube per wheel is ususally adequate.
-SD
That was 1 tube total for one tire-wheel, but I thought it would be less. The tire cloth took up a little more than 1/2 of a tube–the rest on the 3 rim coats.
I’m sorry. I read the initial post thinking you had used one tube on the base tape and 3 tubes on the rim.
1 tube on a new wheel and tire does not seem excessive. Remember too that a part of that 25gm tube evaporates as the carrier solvent in the glue.
-SD
I figured as much (about the evaporation–hence glue sniffers), but since everyone was talking, recently, about weight, no one mentioned the weight of the glue. (I had thought that 1/2 tube per wheel would be enough–I had to go back to the LBS.)