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Old 06-30-21, 10:41 PM
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Used to fill farm implement tires with a calcium chloride slurry back when I worked in a tire shop. This added weight for traction and prevented the fluid from freezing in the cold, as pure water would.
Not sure why anybody would want to weigh down bicycle wheels, though?
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