Decide before you drop them off what happens to the ones that do not pass
Every casing sent for retreading is inspected, and not every one passes. That is the system working: a casing with hidden damage is better found at the plant than on the road. It does leave a practical question that is easy to skip, and on a farm or a small rural fleet it matters more than it seems.
What happens to the rejects?
Some owners want rejected casings back, to see why they failed or to put them to use on the farm. Others want nothing more to do with them. Neither is wrong, but the answer should be decided before the casings leave, not discovered afterward when somebody has to make an extra trip into town or find space for tires nobody wanted.
Three questions for the counter
Princeton serves a wide area, and a trip in should settle everything at once. When you bring casings, ask:
Which of these will they take? Sizes and types vary, and the store can tell you before you load anything you would only be hauling back.
What happens to the rejects? Returned to you, or disposed of, and whether there is a charge for either.
How will you hear the result? A note of which casings passed and which did not, with a reason where one is given, is worth keeping. Over a few rounds it shows whether your casings are failing for the same reason each time.
Bring them sorted
Mark each casing with the truck and position it came from, and set aside any you already know are damaged. A sorted load is quicker at the counter and gives more useful results, because a rejection can be traced back to where the tire ran.
Where the work happens
This store works with Purcell's retreading program. Casings are collected here in Princeton and retreaded at a Purcell plant, the nearest being Potosi, Missouri or Cleveland, North Carolina, then returned ready to run.
Casings often come off during other work, so it helps to raise retreading when a truck is in for heavy-duty truck alignment or set it up through a fleet account.
Collecting stores nearby
Paducah Commercial & Consumer and Henderson also collect casings.
About this store
The Princeton store carries all nine Purcell tire categories and is managed by Stephanie Fakouri.
See the national retreading page for how the program works and for all 54 collecting locations.