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Old Coats Tire Man manual tire changer
I was given a 60's vintage Coats Tireman 3 star manual tire changer.
It's in working order, except the tire iron, or mount/demount bar is missing. It has a hand operated upper and lower bead breaker. I ran across another somewhat older unit, probably from the 50's, that has a bar about 4' long, one end is sort of spoon shaped and the other, I guess the mounting end, has two ~3" wheels and a 3/8" diameter roller to kinda skate the tire on I guess. It looks like I could make a copy of the demount/mount bar pretty easily, but I'm not sure if part of the bar is supposed to go through the square hole in the swivel at the top of the center post. The older machine I saw, as well as the Coat's current model 310 manual changer don't have this feature. I called Coats and they were no help. A replacement bar for the new manual changer is $180, so I don't think that's in the cards, and I think I want to cover the ends with UHMW sleeves so I can use it on some of my aluminum rims. When I used to race my GT2 car in the late 90's the Goodyear and Hoosier tire trucks were still using manual machines at the track and the tire guys could change low profile radial slick in a couple of minutes...with some experience of course. Anyone here ever use a similar machine? |
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Old Coats Tire Man manual tire changer
On Mon, 9 Apr 2012 22:51:50 -0700 (PDT), oldjag
wrote: I was given a 60's vintage Coats Tireman 3 star manual tire changer. It's in working order, except the tire iron, or mount/demount bar is missing. It has a hand operated upper and lower bead breaker. I ran across another somewhat older unit, probably from the 50's, that has a bar about 4' long, one end is sort of spoon shaped and the other, I guess the mounting end, has two ~3" wheels and a 3/8" diameter roller to kinda skate the tire on I guess. It looks like I could make a copy of the demount/mount bar pretty easily, but I'm not sure if part of the bar is supposed to go through the square hole in the swivel at the top of the center post. The older machine I saw, as well as the Coat's current model 310 manual changer don't have this feature. If it didn't go through there, where would the tire iron ride during dismount/remount? If on the threads, avoid doing that and use the square hole. I called Coats and they were no help. A replacement bar for the new manual changer is $180, so I don't think that's in the cards, and I think I want to cover the ends with UHMW sleeves so I can use it on some of my aluminum rims. When I used to race my GT2 car in the late 90's the Goodyear and Hoosier tire trucks were still using manual machines at the track and the tire guys could change low profile radial slick in a couple of minutes...with some experience of course. Anyone here ever use a similar machine? Newp. I had the pneumatic Coats machines at two different shops I worked in. They had slots in the bar which fit onto the rectangular tab on the tip of the center post, which rotated to remove the tire. -- Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery. -- Matthew Arnold |
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Old Coats Tire Man manual tire changer
Larry, on the new unit Coats sells:
http://www.ammcoats.com/coats-manual...nger-model-310 the bar just bears against the side of the center post...the threads are very course acme, and above that no threads, just a solid bar. In any case the rectangular hole in the top swivel of my unit is about 1/2" wide x about 2" high...kinda small for a substantial bar to go through. Maybe the bar had a spigot on one side that fit in the hole but I'm just guessing. |
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On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:33:34 -0700 (PDT), oldjag
wrote: Larry, on the new unit Coats sells: http://www.ammcoats.com/coats-manual...nger-model-310 the bar just bears against the side of the center post...the threads are very course acme, and above that no threads, just a solid bar. In any case the rectangular hole in the top swivel of my unit is about 1/2" wide x about 2" high...kinda small for a substantial bar to go through. Maybe the bar had a spigot on one side that fit in the hole but I'm just guessing. I have no idea. I can honestly say that I don't miss changing rims and balancing tires for the body shop, though. Or replacing bashed dashboards. I had fun winding new wiring harnesses when we couldn't get replacements, though. Usually sub-harnesses. -- One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. -- Sophocles |
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I have a complete working version of this machine with all tools including separate bead breaker and bead expanders.
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On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 13:01:43 +0800, DAB wrote:
On 25-Feb-16 7:21 AM, wrote: I have a complete working version of this machine with all tools including separate bead breaker and bead expanders. consider opening a tyre repair shop? They were a decent machine - I changed hundreds (mabee thousands) of tires with one but I wouldn't want to use it on today's allow rims. |
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On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:21:20 -0800 (PST),
wrote: I have a complete working version of this machine with all tools including separate bead breaker and bead expanders. Congratulations! They are good machines!!! |
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Old Coats Tire Man manual tire changer
On Monday, April 9, 2012 at 10:51:50 PM UTC-7, oldjag wrote:
I was given a 60's vintage Coats Tireman 3 star manual tire changer. It's in working order, except the tire iron, or mount/demount bar is missing. It has a hand operated upper and lower bead breaker. I ran across another somewhat older unit, probably from the 50's, that has a bar about 4' long, one end is sort of spoon shaped and the other, I guess the mounting end, has two ~3" wheels and a 3/8" diameter roller to kinda skate the tire on I guess. It looks like I could make a copy of the demount/mount bar pretty easily, but I'm not sure if part of the bar is supposed to go through the square hole in the swivel at the top of the center post. The older machine I saw, as well as the Coat's current model 310 manual changer don't have this feature. I called Coats and they were no help. A replacement bar for the new manual changer is $180, so I don't think that's in the cards, and I think I want to cover the ends with UHMW sleeves so I can use it on some of my aluminum rims. When I used to race my GT2 car in the late 90's the Goodyear and Hoosier tire trucks were still using manual machines at the track and the tire guys could change low profile radial slick in a couple of minutes...with some experience of course. Anyone here ever use a similar machine? |
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Coat Model 3 star tire changer
I have a model 3 star tire changer that I'm trying to figure out how to modify to work on 13" and 17" drop center wheels. Im thinking about cutting the rim off of the main platform that the tires sets on, reducing the diameter by 1.5", then welding the rim back on. Anybody ever modify this model of tire changes to make it work for the newer wheels?
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Old Coats Tire Man manual tire changer
Larry Jaques wrote:
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. -- Sophocles Sophocles is three or four hundred years ago BC, cave man thinking, right? Cave mannish thoughts mean they aren't modern. A lot like most big restaurant and hospitality chains seem to think that the favorite foods don't include mango, tamarind, guava or papaya. For some reason. |
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Old Coats Tire Man manual tire changer
On Friday, June 3, 2016 at 5:41:32 AM UTC-4, John B. wrote:
On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 19:03:28 -0700 (PDT), wrote: Larry Jaques wrote: One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. -- Sophocles Sophocles is three or four hundred years ago BC, cave man thinking, right? Cave mannish thoughts mean they aren't modern. A lot like most big restaurant and hospitality chains seem to think that the favorite foods don't include mango, tamarind, guava or papaya. For some reason. Actually, Sophocles wasn't a philosopher, he was a playwright and for almost 50 years he was the most celebrated playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens. One of his more erudite quotes is: "Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all." Sophocles was a major critic of the first democracy (in Athens Greece). I guess that philosophy is only a "sometimes" state-of-mind. |
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Old Coats Tire Man manual tire changer
replying to reineggerframe, Jeffrey Bradley wrote:
Could you send me a few pictures of all the parts, just got one. I can fab up some of the missing stuff if I see what they look like -- posted from http://www.polytechforum.com/metalwo...er-541428-.htm |
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Old Coats Tire Man manual tire changer
On Sat, 4 Jun 2016 10:15:09 -0700 (PDT),
wrote: On Friday, June 3, 2016 at 5:41:32 AM UTC-4, John B. wrote: On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 19:03:28 -0700 (PDT), wrote: Larry Jaques wrote: One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. -- Sophocles Sophocles is three or four hundred years ago BC, cave man thinking, right? Cave mannish thoughts mean they aren't modern. A lot like most big restaurant and hospitality chains seem to think that the favorite foods don't include mango, tamarind, guava or papaya. For some reason. Actually, Sophocles wasn't a philosopher, he was a playwright and for almost 50 years he was the most celebrated playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens. One of his more erudite quotes is: "Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all." Sophocles was a major critic of the first democracy (in Athens Greece). I guess that philosophy is only a "sometimes" state-of-mind. If you are talking about Solon, he died in 558 BC Sophocles served as one of the treasurers of Athena during the political ascendancy of Pericles (ruled Athens approximately 461 to 429 BC) and he was elected one of the ten generals, executive officials at Athens, as a junior colleague of Pericles, and he served in the Athenian campaign against Samos. -- cheers, John B. |
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From that time, only a few of the documented plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripedes still exist and they quoted from each other regularly. Generally, the idea is that since there were so few other documents describing Athens then, they carry more authority.
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Old Coats Tire Man manual tire changer
On Sun, 05 Jun 2016 04:18:02 +0000, Jeffrey Bradley
wrote: replying to reineggerframe, Jeffrey Bradley wrote: Could you send me a few pictures of all the parts, just got one. I can fab up some of the missing stuff if I see what they look like $68.19 changer bar on Amazon.com. Maybe it'll fit. http://tinyurl.com/zr9yorp I changed a few on an antique 4070 Coats back in the '80s. -- Energy and persistence alter all things. --Benjamin Franklin |
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Old Coats Tire Man manual tire changer
replying to reineggerframe, Richard Bow wrote:
still got tire changer? -- for full context, visit https://www.polytechforum.com/metalw...er-541428-.htm |
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