Manual tire machine

steve terplak · Aug 15, 2017

Auction locally. Has this manual tire machine.

Don't know anything about a manual machine. Usually just use tire irons and sweat.
Don't do more than 8-10 tires a year (wagons, implements, fronts etc...)
Is this worth hauling it home? Easy to use?
What is a reasonable price? Currently @$22 closing tomorrow.

jeffcat · Aug 15, 2017

You better hope the tools come with it. Bead breaker and the bar with a flat end and a roller that peals the tire off of the rim.

CLYDE MASON · Aug 15, 2017

I SEE ONE TOOL STICKING OUT.
THERE SHOLD BE TWO TOOLS
WE HAD ONE MAKE SURE THE AIR BREAKER WORKS. OURS STOPED WORKING

WE CHANGED A FEW TIRESWITH IT.
WORKS OK FOR 6 OR 8 PER YEAR

Harold Hubbard · Aug 15, 2017

That looks like it has the tools,and also an air operated bead breaker. I have an old Coats all manual one, and it still beats wrassling around on the floor with tires. Like you,I probably do a dozen or so tires a year,but these are often weekend, after hours,urgent repairs. I probably wouldn't abuse fancy alloy rims with it, but I don't have any of those on critical equipment.

As far as price, Harbor Freight, Tractor Supply, Walmart, etc. Have manual machines for under a hundred bucks, but the one you showed looks way stronger than those.

Buy it if you can get it for a hundred or so, bolt it down solidly, and have fun.

Tom in TN · Aug 15, 2017

Steve,

I worked in a garage while I was in High School (55 plus years ago). The only tire changer we had was a manual unit and I've changed scads of tires with it. The pictured unit is not exactly like the one that we had. It looks like the bar that is used to roll the bead off, and subsequently back onto the rim, is standing behind the unit with just the head of the tool visible above (behind) the unit. If that's the bar, it is much less stout than the one we had. Also, we had a manual bead breaker so I'm not sure about the pneumatic bead breaker, if that's what this one has.

All in all, I'd love to have a manual tire machine. A little soap on the tire's bead, and you're good to go.

Tom in TN

Oh yeah, one other thing. To seat the bead of tubeless tires against the edge of the rim to enable us to inflate the tire, we had a small, inflatable ring that went around the tire right in the middle of the tread. When inflated, it would push the sidewalls of the tire out to meet the rim, thus sealing the sidewall to the rim.

Good luck.

Tom in TN

JimB2 · Aug 15, 2017

There was one tool to remove the tire from the rim and another tool to put the tire back on plus there was I don't how to describe a fabric incased tube that looked like a rope that you tightened around the center of the treat on a tubeless tire then you inflated the tube in this rope and it would tighten and squeeze the beads of the tires up to the rims so they would seal and you could inflate the tire but you had to deflate and unhook the rope before fully inflating the tire.

Steve@Advance · Aug 15, 2017

That sure brings back some memories!

Used one exactly like that at my dads garage. From the time I was too little to lift the wheel up (someone would put it on the machine, I would take it from there).

Changed thousands of tires on that thing! Wish I had kept it.

It's very easy to use, air bead breaker, air clamps the wheel down. The rest is all manual. It will only do steel wheels though, it will scratch mag and some aluminum, have to be careful.

mtf · Aug 15, 2017

Have one identical to that my dad bought from an old service station in smiths grove ky. Changed many wagon and bobcat tires with that thing. That is one tool that will make you money, just from what you save driving to get a flat fixed.

2x4 · Aug 15, 2017

my manual tire changer is different but it is faster on some tires than a hydraulic machine. I & the neighbors have changed hundreds of tires with it since 1972.

CKain(MI) · Aug 15, 2017

I too worked in a service station, in the 60's.
I wish I had a cement floor to bolt one down ! !
just yesterday I had a blow out(rt front) 7 miles from home.
had two used tires at home, in the barn.
My wife brought me a tire & under body jack and I took the bad tire
to local service shop for switch. Then finished the drive home,
got out of the van and see the lft front almost flat. ???
Back to shop for a second tire switch. With my own tire machine,
I could have saved $40. ( I did get them balanced.)

504 · Aug 15, 2017

I have a total manual changer that I bought at HF,it paid for itself the second week I owned it. I would love to have a power bead breaker. BUY IT.

Cory Schmidt · Aug 15, 2017

have one like that buried in the shop someplace.... used it a few times, bead breaker unit is nice... Working the bead about the same work as irons(or wrecking bars) and hammer....I think if I tried to use that today, I'd be faster with the bars just loose on the ground, or still hanging on the implement.....since a few mentioned the tubeless band tube tool already, my brother says we use to have one...till it leaked... me I just set the beads on tubeless tires with an endless(no hooks, strap on the handle) ratchet strap.

IA Roy · Aug 15, 2017

I have one bolted to a wooden pallet. Not enuf room to dedicate to the machine. I move it to where i have room to use it. Sometimes a snowbank. I think the one I have was from harbor freight or northern tool.

37chief · Aug 15, 2017

I have one just like that. The bead breaker sometimes needs a little help on rusted old tires. After the tire is loose on the rim the bar removes the tire real easy. Installing a tire works fairly good. The first bead on the bottom goes on real good the next top read you need to hold the bar real tight against the tire. My clamp doesn't work any more, but it is almost not needed, but helps. It has saved me a lot of money over the years, on trailer and tractor front tires. A rear tire can be put under the bead breaker and will brake the tire bead if the machine is attached to a cement base. I would get it if I were you, but then someone may want it worse. Stan

Leroy · Aug 15, 2017

I have one of those HF units that will never get used again.It put me in the hospital with a torn shoulder. The cost of having somebody do it with a power unit is no where nere the cost of a hospital trip.

moresmoke · Aug 15, 2017

I have a HF manual changer mounted to a heavy pallet. I found a bar on Ebay that is meant for Alloy wheels, the ends are plastic. Wife had a flat Sunday. There is nowhere local to get a tire fixed on Sunday. A bit of time and she was good to go.

gab · Aug 15, 2017

I've seen one manual tire mach. that was made with a metal hoop around it for the base to stabilize it.

Steve@Advance · Aug 15, 2017

I remember only having one tool.

Had a ball on one end to take the tire off, and the hook thing on the other for putting it on, about 4 ft long.

Billy NY · Aug 16, 2017

Looks like a May Brothers, just like mine. Do a search on the web you'll see photos of mine posted here. Photobucket disconnected the link to the photos on YT, but they appear when you do a web search, next to a blue front end loader bucket. I have not used it much, but it seemed to be worth what I paid, $25 or $50. I had gone to get a K341 Kohler from the seller and he had some other things for sale as well, the tire changer came home with me as well.

DoubleR · Aug 16, 2017

I got a HF one, like some others, mounted on a heavy pallet. I have used it allot on farm tires, even used it to mount a new set of tires on my fifth wheel camper. I do go through allot of dollar store dish soap. Its not a easy job to do a tire though but sometimes its better than a trip to town and hanging out while someone else does it and charges you.

JMS/.MN · Aug 16, 2017

I had one like that- you could stand on the ring to stabilize it. Any manual setup that is well-anchored is a boost in tire changing.

steve terplak · Aug 16, 2017

Got it.
$27.50 + 18% (!!!) buyers premium.

Will see how it looks when I get it home.

Also got a shelf lot of 55 grease gun cartridges and some shop towels and a lot of 10 electric motors

Not the worst haul...I miss live auctions...internet stuff is driving the price up so I am buying less impulsive stuff.

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