I have one of these machine myself my Dad bought it from a guy for 25 bucks I've been using it for well over 10yrs it still works great I wish Dad was still here like that machine 😢.....
I have had another newer manual tire machine, and a separate bead breaker, for decades. But, last week i bought an old one just like yours. I don't have the top bead breaker, but it still has the bottom one. It came with a heavy duty separate bead breaker. As old as those are, they were made for tires with tubes, no inner bead on rim. I wouldn't be upset about not having the original bead breakers. Some of these tubeless tires, a hi lift jack under a loaded service truck, still is difficult to break down. Most do break down fairly easy. Some of them are real monsters. I came across an old bar at a flea market, that was a game changer. Then i bought me self a gallon of concentrate soapy bead lube, thicker than axle grease, life has been so much easier. You can dilute it, so i keep a diluted mix in a gallon peanut jar, put it on beads and also dip my bars in it each time I make a move. The bead soap has been very well worth it. It is so so concetrated that it will make several five gallon buckets of lube, or it can be used straight out of the tub on the difficult tires. Never, i repeat never, use hand cleaner for bead lube. It will work, but your patches will come loose inside the tire because of the hand cleaner. Believe me, i use plugs as often as possible. There is a great satisfaction that comes with mounting a tire, spraying it down with soapy water, and having no leaks. I have not been to a tire shop since I got a manual tire machine. We have a commercial farm, construction company, logging outfit, so you can imagine the tires.
We had this machine and coats wanted it for their museum. They gave us a new one and sent a full blown film crew to tape me using it. It was supposed to be a demo video for the museum. It was like 25ish years ago. I would love to see it.
Thanks for making the video. I just bought one and wasn’t quite sure how to use it. Your video really helped me! I used still shots to use as reference for the hook that holds the rim down with the cone. I think my hook is too short, when I have a 14” rim on the table I cannot get the hook to lock on the cone and the pedal will not go down to lock. But I love the tire machine old school comes to the rescue. When I get the bugs out it will be a welcome asset to my garage! Thanks again! Joe
a lot more soap and water in a little trick that I've learned is I take some transmission assembly Lube which you can only usually get it from a transmission place that sells transmission parts or offline or something like that but I usually take some of that because it'll dissolve after the rim and the tire heats up and it won't be greasy no more after a few times you wash it and it heats up so I use that with soap and water or Vaseline and that works perfectly when you're taking tires off and on and this does not seem bad there's nothing to go wrong and it gives you a good workout so it's a win-win
I have one of these it was my grandfathers I still use it to this day grampaw taught me how to use it an even though hes gone ever time I use it I think of him o an iv never used a air machine I even got the level wheel balancer with it
I just wanted to say thank you for putting up this video. I have the same one that I had gotten several years ago. I couldn't get it to work just right. Now I see that I was missing the center cone. I had been trying to hold the rim with the hook wondering how that was supposed to hold the rim tight. Now I'll make one.
lol - I don't have a brother, but in my family, the conversation would be: "Why don't you change your brother's tires?" (Not really a question though. AND, your father has already told your brother that you would do it, and for free. AND, it wouldn't matter how many tires you had already done for your brother, or that he could it it himself, or how lazy he was. Then, before you could sit down, you'd find the tires would have been already been dropped off next to the tire machine, to be changed, your brother taking you for granted.) Of course, during the work, you smash a fingernail - So that after you had done the work, you were constantly reminded of these facts with every pulse of pain. But you don't fully express your frustration w/ your brother at that time, as he has gone to the lake w/ his buddies for the entire weekend to drink and fish! Once back, he doesn't get a hangover, nor does he give you a thank you, because that's how he is. On the very next tire change, you cannot complete it, because you used the last of your new valve stems on your brother's tires. From then on, every time you hear a burn-out, you cringe, wondering if it's your irresponsible brother, shortening his tire life. The tire machine gift is a curse that you can't get rid of, because it would hurt your father's feelings. However, the wisdom you were taught by that same great father, helped you determine that the only solution is to buy your brother his own tire machine - the sooner, the better. Upon receiving it, your brother may cry - but if so, will it be due to your generosity or the work ahead for him? You won't care, because in the end, it pleases your father.
It looks like the rim sits right on the top plate? So then it has a limit to how large of a rim it can handle? Asking because I'm thinking about getting one of these.
I couldn't see from the video-- does that small upright thing near the centerpost go into one of the lugnut holes of the wheel? Also, I don't have the long metal bar (2:48). Could I substitute a wrecker bar?
The piece near the center goes through the centernhole of the wheel. This piece clamps the wheel down. I am not sure if you could substitute a wrecking bar, however you may be able to use tire spoons in you use the machine as a base to hold the tire.
Thanks for the info but I'm not sure of the measurements you gave of 1 1/4" diameter. As that seems to be the same as the demount roller and on this video it looks like the mount roller is bigger than that. ??
Machines like that are the reason the Boomers were able to achieve such amazing goals.. They were in much better shape than we are.. Nothing was easy for them...
@@app4902 LOL... Carter caused Inflation like the US had never seen before... Our house was $33,000 @ 13% for 30 years in the 80's... Minimum wage was $2.30 when I was a kid...
@@app4902 They didn't inherit a perfect economy. They built one. Strong men make easy times. Easy times make weak men. Weak men make hard times. Guess where we are right now.
@@mckrackin5324 they definitely inherited a perfect economy. We were so rich after the war. Also your saying doesn’t make sense. Greatest generation would be bad times, boomers would be good times, and we are bad times.
I just bought one of these, don’t even have it mounted yet. So I have a question for you if you will humor me. I was told using this alloy wheels was bad because it damages them. I don’t know how it damages them. So, I was wondering if I bought a piece of thick leather and draped it over the table and placed alloy wheels on to the leather to protect them from scuffs. Or…. is the damage caused but the force of using the combo tool to take the tire on or off?
It's unfortunate you don't have the original tools and are missing the lower bead breaker. At least you know how to use the tools you do have correctly. I have a Coats Iron Tire man that belong to my Dad, I have all the original tools and the tool stand.
i have one that my dad and grandfather had when they ran a gas station together the it was handed down to my brother and i to change our race car tiers i have all the tools stand and tier spreader still use it teaching my son how to use it
