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Tire Bead Breaker Balancer Found at Garage Sale??

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Edward

08-08-2003 14:09:30




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I just found an older Coats 40/40 bead breaker and a Snap-On computerized balancer with the adapters, wheel weights and tire patching supplies for $1200.00. The balancer requires you to manually spin the tires as there is not an internal motor to do this and it runs off a 12v transformer. Is this a good deal?




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Edward

08-10-2003 12:57:25




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 Re: Tire Bead Breaker Balancer Found at Garage Sa in reply to Edward, 08-08-2003 14:09:30  
Thanks for all your input, I passed on the machines and will keep looking for a better price. Tried to post a reply the other day, but somehow it seems to have gotten lost.



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Nolan

08-12-2003 07:55:57




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 Re: Re: Tire Bead Breaker Balancer Found at Garag in reply to Edward, 08-10-2003 12:57:25  
I've got one of the Harbor Freight hand tire changers/bead breakers. Works just fine. I've used the Coats type pneumatics, and I'm not much slower on this hand powered machine then I am on an air powered one. Also nice, I've never managed to mangle a rim on it (I have on pneumatic ones). The Harbor Freight unit has a good long bar giving plenty of leverage.

I also bought a bubble balancer. This to has worked well for me. Not as well as I'd have liked, but quite well.

All told, I spent something like $70 for it all.

Considering what places want now days for mounting and balancing tires, I recovered my costs on the second balancing. Did the job a whole lot quicker then any of the tires stores around here to boot!

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Rick

08-09-2003 06:23:10




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 Re: Tire Bead Breaker Balancer Found at Garage Sa in reply to Edward, 08-08-2003 14:09:30  
If you are talking about a air operated coats 40/40 machine you can get those in my area on sales for around $300to $500 dollars.



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Neal-WI

08-08-2003 21:42:56




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 Re: Tire Bead Breaker Balancer Found at Garage Sa in reply to Edward, 08-08-2003 14:09:30  
I built my own bead braker after looking at the picture of one in the McMaster catalog some years ago. Works great. I bought a Sears bubble balancer for around $40 about thirty years ago. I got about 50 pounds of used weights for nothing. At the time I bought it, a friend laughed because at that time it only cost about a dollar to balance tires and he said I would never recoup my investment. I have balanced well over a hundred tires since purchasing it. I like my setup for the convenience. If you watch Harbor Freight sales, you can buy a manual tire changer for less than $50.00. I have had very good results when I balance my own tires plus I don't have to go to a shop and wait for them to get around to it. I would definately pass on the $1200 investment.

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Van(WA)

08-08-2003 18:27:13




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 Re: Tire Bead Breaker Balancer Found at Garage Sa in reply to Edward, 08-08-2003 14:09:30  
Ed, NO, it doesn't shound like a good deal, I could take a lot of tires to Les Schwab, for a lot less, and not do nothing!!!



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howster mighty fine

08-08-2003 18:20:56




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 Re: Tire Bead Breaker Balancer Found at Garage Sa in reply to Edward, 08-08-2003 14:09:30  
sounds like a lota mony i could use elsewhere. I use a hand bead breaker with a 4# hammer and never ballance tires. If they are any good they don't need balancing and if they are not round no amount of balancing will fix them.



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Farmer John

08-09-2003 13:12:04




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 Re: Re: Tire Bead Breaker Balancer Found at Garag in reply to howster mighty fine, 08-08-2003 18:20:56  
Howster, remind me to never ride in your pickup truck on those unbalanced shakerrrrr rsssss s...LOL



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howster mighty fine

08-09-2003 18:22:20




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 Re: Re: Re: Tire Bead Breaker Balancer Found at G in reply to Farmer John, 08-09-2003 13:12:04  
Realy farmer john, it rides prety good if i keep the mud washed off the wheels :)



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Chester

08-10-2003 14:24:26




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 Re: Re: Re: Re: Tire Bead Breaker Balancer Found in reply to howster mighty fine, 08-09-2003 18:22:20  
If you are only breaking the bead on car tires and light trucks..... ..place a 2 X 6 on the tire up to the bead and drive up on it, that will break almost any bead. Had some 15" X 8" wheels with big tires that had been in place for 15 years and they came off effortlessly that way.



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