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Roger Lee
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 Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 2:42 pm Post subject: How to mount a tire the easy way. |
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Hi All,
Here is the easy way to mount a tire on the wheel. You will use a lot less choice words and do it in 1/4th the time.
I have been doing it this way for the last several years and the nice people at Matco made a nice picture for everyone.
Enjoy
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| Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 7:42 pm Post subject: How to mount a tire the easy way. |
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Good one Roger, so simple but yet so effective. Of course now though I have to buy one more clamp! LOL Take care, Jim Chuk
PS keep those tips comming! Thanks!
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Thom Riddle
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| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 4:48 am Post subject: Re: How to mount a tire the easy way. |
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That is clever.
I have had tires so difficult to remove from the rim half that my 280 lb mechanic partner standing on the tire could not break the bead. So we built a tool using pieces of 5/8" plywood with a circular hole just larger than the wheel rim diameter plus a piece of all-thread, plus clamp bars and nuts to squeeze the tire off the rim. Works well but this seems a bit simpler.
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| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 4:58 am Post subject: How to mount a tire the easy way. |
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Don't forget to lube the tire and rim with a bit of soapy water, for on or off.
Bill Sullivan
Windsor Locks, Ct.
Kolb FS 447
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That is clever.
I have had tires so difficult to remove from the rim half that my 280 lb mechanic partner standing on the tire could not break the bead. So we built a tool using pieces of 5/8" plywood with a circular hole just larger than the wheel rim diameter plus a piece of all-thread, plus clamp bars and nuts to squeeze the tire off the rim. Works well but this seems a bp; --> http://www.matronics.com/Navigator?RotaxEngines-; - MATRONICS WEB FORUMS -http://www.matronics.c===================
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| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 10:34 am Post subject: How to mount a tire the easy way. |
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Separating a tire from the rim on small aircraft:
As a Vintage A&P and having changed out many tires and my preferred method was relatively simple and effective. I used two large heavy bladed and blunt screw drivers, not your watch repair screwdrivers, more like heavy equipment type screw drivers . . .the bigger and dumber the better . . . Then I would squat and put my knees on both sides of the "deflated" tire. A little soapy water is always good too. Then I would just work my way around the tire a little at a time, pushing in the screwdrivers in and prying a little each time. It was more Neanderthal than NASA but it works.
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 4:11 AM, FLYaDIVE <flyadive(at)gmail.com (flyadive(at)gmail.com)> wrote:
[quote]Roger:
INTERESTING....
I have never had a problem mounting a tire to a wheel...
Where I have problems is separating the tire from the wheel. Especially if it has been on for a long time.
I guess I could use the clamps, if I had clamps. 
Andy tricks if one does not have clamps?
Yea, Yea, I know - - Buy clamps.
What I have used successfully (but not what I would suspect is the easiest method) is just a 2 ft long 2x4 across the tire and stand on it.
Any other suggestions?
Barry
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:11 pm Post subject: How to mount a tire the easy way. |
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I gave up trying to demount two really old tires on roughly 1991 vintage
Kitfox (Douglas) wheels and resorted to cutting a section of the tire down
to the wheel rim then cutting thru the metal wires in the bead of the tire
with a carbide bur in a dremel tool.
The wires in the bead made a serious "pop" as I cut thru the last one.
Being a retired dentist this seemed prettly easy to do without damaging
the aluminum wheel but it ruined the carbide bur.
BJ
Kitfox IV N143K
PA 39 N626NR
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<riddletr(at)gmail.com>
That is clever.
I have had tires so difficult to remove from the rim half that my 280 lb
mechanic partner standing on the tire could not break the bead. So we
built a tool using pieces of 5/8" plywood with a circular hole just larger
than the wheel rim diameter plus a piece of all-thread, plus clamp bars
and nuts to squeeze the tire off the rim. Works well but this seems a bit
simpler.
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Thom Riddle
Buffalo, NY (9G0)
Kolb Slingshot SS-021
Jabiru 2200A #1574
Tennessee Prop 64x32
Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are
wonderful.”Â
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:35 pm Post subject: How to mount a tire the easy way. |
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Here's how I dismounted some difficult tires. I removed the wheel and
tire from the plane. Then I took them to a tire shop. That was so easy.
(I just can't help being a smart ass.)
Pete
Leander Tx
Kitfox III, 912,
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I gave up trying to demount two really old tires on roughly 1991 vintage
Kitfox (Douglas) wheels and resorted to cutting a section of the tire down
to the wheel rim then cutting thru the metal wires in the bead of the tire
with a carbide bur in a dremel tool.
The wires in the bead made a serious "pop" as I cut thru the last one.
Being a retired dentist this seemed prettly easy to do without damaging
the aluminum wheel but it ruined the carbide bur.
BJ
Kitfox IV N143K
PA 39 N626NR
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> <riddletr(at)gmail.com>
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> That is clever.
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> I have had tires so difficult to remove from the rim half that my 280 lb
> mechanic partner standing on the tire could not break the bead. So we
> built a tool using pieces of 5/8" plywood with a circular hole just larger
> than the wheel rim diameter plus a piece of all-thread, plus clamp bars
> and nuts to squeeze the tire off the rim. Works well but this seems a bit
> simpler.
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> Thom Riddle
> Buffalo, NY (9G0)
> Kolb Slingshot SS-021
> Jabiru 2200A #1574
> Tennessee Prop 64x32
> Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are
> wonderful.”Â
> —Ann Landers
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> Read this topic online here:
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> http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=331397#331397
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