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

On Mon, 12 Dec 2016 20:07:38 -0500, advised:

If you want instructions, look at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7yz9twasEU
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUas5LIY_ok


Thanks for those links.

Watching this video first, it's actually hilarious in one way:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUas5LIY_ok

He's using an entirely different model tool from HF (it has a completely
different geometry than the one I have) and he's doing a brand new 14-inch
passenger-car tire which even he said in the video is super easy.

In addition, he welded stuff onto his tire changer (he didn't say exactly
what he welded though) and his tire changer is totally different than mine
in that he doesn't have those two weak arms that bent on mine.
http://i.cubeupload.com/LqS6N4.jpg

His has a steel tube (which will certainly be stronger).

But the non-realistic part of his video was that he used a brand new tire!

So all he did was press down like he was pressing his finger into butter,
and the bead broke (in fact, the bead was already broken because there was
absolutely no popping sound). He even stepped on the rest of the tire to
get the rest of the bead, which means that he was just going through the
motions.

It's fine that he was just going through the motions, but I already knew
all the motions.

But he also bolted his HF tool to concrete (his bolt hole dimensions are
wrong though since nothing larger than 3/8ths will fit in the pre-drilled
holes of the tool legs).

He used the same threaded anchors that I did, so that's nice to know.
And, he didn't mention it, but you can see that he stacked a ****load of
washers under the bolt head, which means he had the same problem that I
have which is you need 2-3/4-inch long bolts, but you can only easily get
2-1/2 or 3-inch bolts (he probably used the 3-inch bolts).

So, it was a useful video, but not the same model tire changer as I have,
and, his test case was so easy that it simply showed what we already know
which is you press down on the bar with the bead shovel in the bead.

He does another tire at time 937 but it's just as easy but at least we
"hear" the pop of the bead, which means this bead was actually seated:
https://youtu.be/bUas5LIY_ok?t=937

The video is good for "instructions" for going through the motions, but
it's not useful when there is a problem breaking the bead since the bead
came off like it was buttered.

The guy blows up a tire at time 1408, which is certainly not standard
procedure!
https://youtu.be/bUas5LIY_ok?t=1408