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Default Question about breaking the bead using a harbor freight bead breaker?

On Mon, 12 Dec 2016 19:04:13 -0600, Dean Hoffman advised:

Have you looked on YouTube? Ya know, the old thing about a
picture being worth one or ten thousand words?


This video uses the same tool that I have:
https://youtu.be/_J_2SD-snd0

And he explained a bit about how the bead breaker shovel bends like mine
did.

Unlike the other video, at least his beads popped off with a sound, so you
know he was really breaking a bead.

That guy also used a 3/8ths in bolt which was too long!
He didn't use the washers that the previous guy did with the drop-in
anchors.

So it looks like everyone has the same problem that you need 2-2/4 inch
bolts and not a quarter inch either way but none of them bother to mention
that (so you have to know to look for it which means you have to already
know about it to know to look for it).

But, overall, the tire he had was a low profile tire which is totally
different from a SUV high profile tire, so, for bead breaking the video was
useless.