Thread: bursting of a tire in a testing environment
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Old 06-12-2011, 11:08 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by CapriRacer View Post
I'm hoping everyone realizes that these are truck tires designed to opertae at around 100 psi.
I didn't know that. That implies (to me) that a 44 PSI max tire would blow up at around 132+ PSI (3 * 44).

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