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Wheel & Rim Safety Manual
Assembling of the Trilex® rim segments
into tire
Lubricate tire beads and flap. This will ease assembling work and prevent sticking of tire. Clean rust
pitted rims and coat with rust-resisting paint (zinc dust paint).
Remove burrs, if any, at segments ends by filing. Round off transition rim base/rim flange.
Place tire on the ground, valve pointing upwards. Insert valve segment, right side
first, as illustrated.
Seen from above, valve rests against left side of valve slot.
Rim base to rest all along against tyre bead. Retreated tires, having generally a
large bead width, may have to be compressed until play between tire bead and rim
flange is obtained on both sides.
Third segment is joined to valve segment.
Slide the segment, now in front of valve segment, along into locking position.
Check position of valve! As seen from above, valve must rest against left side of the
valve slot.
Close rim by using double lever steadily along rim mounting bevel (do not pull
upwards). Once rim is locked, valve to be located in the center of the valve slot.
