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| | | | Joined: Jan 2016 Posts: 40 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jan 2016 Posts: 40 | I went yesterday and picked up a Coats 40-40a tire machine to add to the shop. I have been looking for one for some time now, but it seemed they were made of gold by the price they were wanting. I happened upon one yesterday that was within a short drive and picked it up. I am excited that I will once again be able to take care of my own tire swaps. A buddy of mine had a 10-10 years ago which is the machine I learned on, but this one is definitely a step up.
Larry
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 4,251 "Hey! I sound like Darth Vader!! | | "Hey! I sound like Darth Vader!! Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 4,251 | I spent a lot of time on a similar machine. These days, it's one of those uprights that clamp the rim, etc.
Nice find! | | | | | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 7,440 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 7,440 | Cut my teeth on the 10-10 then the company bought 20-20 machines and sold all the 10-10s. The 40-40 came out just after I left the business. Now, like Mark said, they are all stand up machines.
Martin
'62 Chevy C-10 Stepside Shortbed (Restomod in progress)
'47 Chevy 3100 5 Window (long term project)
‘65 Chevy Biscayne (Emily)
‘39 Dodge Business Coupe (Clarence)
“I fought the law and the law won" now I are a retired one!
Support those brave men/women who stand the "Thin Blue Line"! Hug a cop!
USAF 1965-1969 Weather Observation Tech (I got paid to look at the clouds)
| | | | | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 2,832 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 2,832 | We picked up a barely used 30-30 machine from a motorcycle shop that went to a "touchless" machine for fancy wheels. Gave $150 for it and stuck it in a corner as I figured it wouldn't be used much. I was wrong. The guys have made up all sorts of custom wheel mounts ranging from go-kart to really big fork lift wheels. The air tube for blowing tires out to the rim has died and the extended center post and bead breaker arm are way over taxed on some wheels but it just keeps chugging along.
Evan
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,767 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,767 | The "Cheetah" portable inflator tank is the best invention since a pocket on a shirt! Just charge it up with compressed air, aim the flattened pipe at the tire bead, and open the ball valve- - - -just be sure to wear your earmuffs. That thing is LOUD! Sure beats using a big squirt of starting fluid and a match to seat the beads on big truck tires!
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
| | | | | Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 3,592 Moderator | | Moderator Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 3,592 |
1967 GMC 9500 Fire Ladder Truck"The Flag Pole"In the Stovebolt Gallery1946 2-Ton grain truck 1946 3/4-ton pickup, 1953 1-ton pickup 1957 1-ton flatbed dually, 1954 Pontiac Straight Eight Of all the things I've lost in my life, I miss my mind the most! | | |
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