I don’t know about you, but I often wonder how things are made and why. Last week, I was seeing truck tires all over the road. When it gets hot, the friction of the tire on the hot road causes the retreaded tire will literary melt away. Sometimes, the tire will catch fire, but more often, it will simply peel off and fly away. It surprises me how there are fewer accidents caused by these flying tire remnants. What catches my eye, is all the splintered wires that stick out. If a car goes over these steel wire ties that hold the retread together, it can cause the car to have a flat tire. I had talked to my brother about steel wire ties. He said they usually used steel wire ties in construction for holding rebar together, but it had alot of other uses. In retread for larger tires, the steel wire ties are used as an agent for holding the rubber on the tire. Now that’s what I call ingenious. To take something that is used to keep a shape in concrete, and use it for tire retreading, is truly amazing. It goes to show how people learn to adapt and have multiple uses for things that most people have never heard of. I’ll be looking more closely at those thrown retreads whenever I pass them. I really want to see what steel wire ties look like when not embedded in a rubber tire. Now, I’m going to need to look into other uses for steel wire ties that could be useful in everyday life.
Double loop ties