Curb said:
Man, this is why I hate posting sometimes. Dude, you didn't even read what I posted. You're just rambling on and on. Here, I'll post it again: Then reply again without attacking me
I was looking for updated tips on removing the glue. In my opinion, I think the Wheel Mfg and the Tire Mfg and those tire mfg that make the glues should by now (2009) have developed a process and a safe quick way to remove this tough hard glue that don't damage their products. Basically the mfg are saying, here the glue, glue the tires and it's your problem to get the glue off the rim. It think it's irresponsible for them to do that these days. When you call zipp, they are very reluctant in giving you confident advice for removing the glue from their rims. You got to agree, its stupid sitting there for over 2-3 hours trying to remove glue from a rim the cost over $2K.
For example look at TUFO what they've came out with. The Tape method. Not the best thing but it's new technology.
IT'S TIME FOR AN UPGRADE TO THE TUBULAR GLUING AND REMOVING PROCESS/METHOD!!!
I done!
Dude,
I read what you wrote ...
I'm sorry about your frustration, but you should consider that YOU are apparently one of the few people, if not the only person, fretting over tubular rim glue & its removal due to an inability to clean his/her rims as easily as you would like ... it IS a part of the process which you should have known since you declared that you know how to glue up sew-up tires.
Basically, contact cement is contact cement regardless of how thick it is or how it looks when you squeeze it out of a tube or brush it from a can ...
If the glue were an issue for TEAM MECHANICS who need to deal with the equivalent of more than a hundred wheelsets over the course of a Stage race
vs. your one wheelset, then one can suppose that if there were an alternative glue & remover it would have been requested & developed ... and, it would be available to the general public.
Maybe things should be different, but they aren't ...
So, LET ME SAY IT MORE DIRECTLY ... based on your description, you are apparently using too much glue when you glue up your tires.
Whether or not you think that TUFO tape is the answer-to-your-prayers, you should have bought it & used it before you glued up your high-zoot wheelset BECAUSE it has been available for years ...
So, after you finally clean off your ZIPP rims, you should use the TUFO tape and then you can echo your complaint by declaring that TUFO tape should never have been brought to the market until they figured out an easier way to remove it.
BTW. If you've glued up alloy rims before, then you must know how easy-or-difficult it is to remove the old glue, too; or, did you only buy those other tubular wheels earlier this season AND did you think that something happened between then & now?
It's too bad that in your wannabee rush to buy wheels you can afford but don't understand that you have found yourself in a situation you aren't mature enough to deal with.
FYI. The current UPGRADE in technology which is in-use-and-development is the
tubeless wheel-and-tire combination ...