![]() ![]() They use the wheel as a leverage point and can easily scratch up the lip surface. Once the bead is broken, the bar that pulls the tire off and back on the wheel hooks onto the wheel lip and slides around the top of it. ![]() ![]() The old changers secured the wheels to the changer through the wheel's center hole with a clamping device (or the slightly newer machines grabbed the back of the wheel with jaws), the bead breaker hooks onto the rim lip and uses it as a lever point to push the tire bead off the wheel. If not, it really needs to go away.įor the guy wondering about using the old manual changer on modern large diameter wheels, I wouldn't want to. I showed my grandson how to use it a couple months ago, so I suspect it may see some usage again. I haven't done much tire changing lately, the 10/10 is in my bottom garage and its kind of a pain to get the air line back there. Even though the hoses are old and leak some air, it still gets the job done. I have hanged lot of tires on that old machine. It was bolted to a 4' x 8' piece of 3/4" plywood that came with it. They didn't put it up for bid until late in the day, and I bought it for my opening bid of $25. I mounted a lot of those dirt track tires.įlash forward 30 years, I went to an auction where they had an old beat up Coats 10/10. I got pretty good at using that old manual changer! When the guys at our local dirt track started running the wide tires, that old manual changer was about the only thing that could handle a 12" wide wheel. He had a "new" Coats 20/10 at the time, but he had one of those old manual changers also. In addition to pumping gas, changing and repairing tires was my job. When I was 16, I worked at a local gas station/repair shop. ![]()
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