Chris
What's worked for me is to become friends with a local
tire shop, I give them my tire business, they do all my mounting,
etc., for free with their Italian-built super tire changer that does not
harm
anything when they change the tires. They've done everything from
20" wires off my speedster to 33 year old American Racing
Torq-Thrust Ds I've mounted on my Corvair.
Good luck
Steve
(I guess I leave it to the professionals when I can afford it!)
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Heerschap <Heerschap@eng.kns.com>
To: Shop Talk <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
Date: Wednesday, October 14, 1998 08:41 AM
Subject: Tire mounting equipment
>
>Hey all-
>
>I've got a question. Do any of you have tire mounting equipment in
>your home shops? I've thought a couple times lately how nice it would
>be to be able to unmount and mount tires easily. I've seen Harbor
>Frieght has a manual changer for not too much, but I don't know if it
>would actually work that well.
>
> http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/taf/DisplayItem.taf?ItemNumber=34542
>
>I know another option is to find used stuff from garages and so forth,
>but I figure those would still be rather expensive.
>
>I also realize that this tire changer wouldn't do anything for
>balancing. Right now I'm just thinking about having the capability to
>change the tires.
>
>Part of the problem is I'm not dealing with steel wheels most of the
>time... usually it's aluminum wheels.
>
>Just looking for some opinions on the subject.
>
>
>cmh
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