TIM RICHARDSON -> MIMI GALLANDT wrote:


 TR>> I've gotten a bit lazy over the years, and have my own 150 PSI air
 TR>> compressor, and 3\4 inch impact gun, with high-impact lug sockets.



 TR>> My present employer is amazed when I take one of the tires off the bus,
 TR>> break it down and repair it, air it up and remount it in about half
 TR> an TR>
 TR> hour to forty five minutes. And without a tire cage.


 MG>> As well he should be. I'm of the opinion that you've got a few (at
 TR> least a
 MG>> few) years on me and that's a tricky feat for a youngster let alone a
 MG>> mature fellow like you.  :)


 TR> Age isn't a factor. Its just knowing the right moves. The right leverage
 TR> points. Hit a tire with the grubhoe edge of a mattox in just the right
 TR> place
 TR> about twice, sometimes three times, and the bead is broken. Use all the
 TR> right
 TR> moves and the work almost does itself. Tire work is pretty simple stuff. It
 TR> just sounds harder than it really is. In some of the big tire shops around
 TR> here, like Al Archards where we get our large tires. I've watched some of
 TR> those guys yank all ten tires off of a Peterbilt or Kenworth, break them
 TR> down,
 TR> mount new tires on all ten rims, ballance them and remount them on the
 TR> vehicle
 TR> in just about forty five minutes. Most all the tires on big rigs now-a-days
 TR> are tubeless. You still see snap ring wheels out there, but they're getting
 TR> fewer and fewer.

Some times I see large pieces of tread along the side of a highway. I infer
that trucks getting flats on a freeway reacts differently than a car does
because it has all those extra tires. The possibility exists that I have no
clue about tires. :)

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