Found one for sale but unfamiliar with them and couldn’t find much on google....
Found one for sale but unfamiliar with them and couldn’t find much on google....
Used one of the modern equivalents for a while. It worked extremely well.
Like, I was given a set of 295/30R20 runflats on wheels, and new wheels for the tires, and it just eviscerated them with no effort. This would have taken the efforts of three people and a half hour per tire on a Coats type machine.
Arent those more specific for low profile tires?
In reply to TJL :
They will work on anything.
The two rollers break the beads. The top arm hook thingy plunges down, then you pull the outer bead up over the rim, and rotate the rim. Then you raise the tire to the point that the bottom roller can just sort of shove the bottom bead up and off. Putting the tire back on you just use the arm hook thingy, although you can also use the top roller to assist in keeping the tire down in the bell of the wheel.
I've used a similar machine. The newer ones use the rollers as well but are controlled by buttons instead of your hand guiding them. We have a slightly newer one than that at the school i teach at and i consistently ignore it in favor of the older or newer machine depending on what we're doing. It's a decent machine in its own right but it's sort of an awkward middle ground between old style and new style machines. That one at least looks like it should be cheap enough that beggars cant be choosers. If it's not that cheap i might hold out for something else.
How much is the asking price? The chinese tire machines seem to work well and can be had kinda cheap on ebay. I got my coats stile changer and spin balancer new for about $1,000 with free delivery. Its kinda cool having a tire machine in the garage.
If i remember right they had knockoffs of the funky arm roller models too.
In reply to TJL :
It is $400 but the seller said it needs a part. I can’t get much more than that out of him.
My concern is doing 335/30-18 tires on a 13-inch-wide rim.
$1000 for both mount and balance units, even if lesser quality, sounds great as long as they work.
I’ll try and get more info out of him but I’m not holding my breath that this works out unless enabled a little more powerfully here.
$400 on a name brand tire machine would be "shut up and take my money" pricing. The Ebay ones are fine until something breaks. This one is serviceable and should have parts availability.
Would be curious to see what part it needs. They are not electronic to the best of my knowledge so should be an easy enough repair.
Also try googling "Hunter TC3500" Based on the sticker on the machine....
Yeah go ahead and buy it and put the repair process in build threads. I know we buy cars on here all day long for $400 but if it's a good deal do it.
Me? Oof. I dream of this one for now from HF for $40.
Also one of the forum members lets his buddies use a tire changer he bought. With a tip jar beside it and I believe it's done him well compensation wise. 
Found this Coats one for $3.5k semi-local to me.
So $400 does seem like a good buy-in price. Some dude has the HF one local also for $5 'over' list obo.
Hmmm. It does seem pretty good. As long as it can handle these crazy tires!
if I can make it happen I will post about it
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