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Step 2Cleaning and layout.
- Obviously it'll have some road grime on it. Since this is a "green" instructable, you won't be using a brand new tire!
- I was dreading this step in the instructable, since the previous set of trugs was simply eye-balled and cut resulting in irregular sizes. This time, since I was in less of a hurry, I resolved to do better and measure.
Oh geeze, does that mean I have to make a tool, or gasp, remember some geometry?? Luckily, I noticed that the tire manufacturer thoughtfully provided measuring notches around the circumference of the tire. And they thought they were making grooves for water to exit...
I've decided that the size of trug that suits my needs is 1/5 of a tire. The gods were smiling on me, since my tire has 70 segments, which divided by 14 = 5.
I used chalk to mark with, and a straightedge to transfer the lines around to the tread and the other side of the tire.
- I was dreading this step in the instructable, since the previous set of trugs was simply eye-balled and cut resulting in irregular sizes. This time, since I was in less of a hurry, I resolved to do better and measure.
Oh geeze, does that mean I have to make a tool, or gasp, remember some geometry?? Luckily, I noticed that the tire manufacturer thoughtfully provided measuring notches around the circumference of the tire. And they thought they were making grooves for water to exit...
I've decided that the size of trug that suits my needs is 1/5 of a tire. The gods were smiling on me, since my tire has 70 segments, which divided by 14 = 5.
I used chalk to mark with, and a straightedge to transfer the lines around to the tread and the other side of the tire.
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