Posted by Tom Bowman on August 28, 2013 at 07:48:43 from (108.247.41.46):
Took the rear wheels off the TO-20 this weekend, with the help of my wife (Thanks, again, dear!) and yanked out the valve cores to let most of the calcium chloride drain out.
That's nasty stuff, by the way: had the tires leaned up to drain in a weedy, little used part of my driveway - no more weeds there now! (And, a little less skin on my left hand.)
I want to paint the rims/centers, and I also wanted to get rid of the CaCl2.
I dropped the tires/rims at the shop this morning.
Actually, I dropped them at the second shop I visited: the first one, my local farm supply co-op where I buy my gas/propane, some car tires, etc., said they "won't mess with them, 'cause they've got calcium chloride in them, and it's corrosive." (He also said they wouldn't take the rims off the centers, even before I mentioned the CaCl2.)
I told him I knew it was corrosive, and that's why I wanted them off. Oh, well.
So, I went down the road to another local independent guy (a little too independent at times, if you know what I mean), and he didn't bat an eye - rolled 'em into the shop, and had a guy start to work on them.
At least one of the rims may need to take a ride to the welding shop for repairs. I'll post some pix when I get 'em back.
Also: the tractor has 12.4x28 tires. One's in very good shape, but the other isn't the greatest.
If I end up needing to replace the bad one, I was thinking of replacing both, and going back to the "original" 11.2x28. (As I understand modern tire sizing, that's as close as to "original" as we can get.)
Is there any reason to go with one size or the other? (If I'm measuring correctly, I have 10-inch rims.)
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