On Thursday 28 July 2016 08:44:22 John Thornton wrote: > The easy way to seat the bead on a riding lawnmower tire is to place > the tire on a bucket, cover the center with a rag, push down on the > rim, inflate. The air pressure will build up in the bucket and you can > feel the rim rising up to force the tire to expand to seat the bead. > Works every time. > > JT
Never heard of that, sounds as if it should work well. But it requires taking the wheel off so you can put it on the bucket, and on this relic of the 80's, thats not fun. The wheel is keyed to the axle and retained with a snap ring. And had a rubber like cover over the end of the axle that looks like its covering a wheel bearing, which once removed is a MAJOR PROJECT to put back on. Its fitted over an oversized spacer washer and will not go back over it to resume its former location without some specilized tool only the sears guys had, back in the day. I had one off once, and in the end had to hunt up something with a cone shape that would expand it, heated it so it did expand on the cone, then put it back on hot with heavy gloves. It shrank back and fitted as it cooled. If I was a real woodworker with both external and internal chucks, expanding the internal chuck while heating it might have worked. But whatever I did to do it 3 years ago has faded, except a good memory of how big a PITA it was. But it does sound like a good idea once the wheel is off. Thanks John. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
