The NoMar did it again

[Perazzimx14]

Using plants as soft material to prevent rim damage is brilliant!!

Also need to furrow out a area for the disc so it doesn't have to be removed each tire change 

[guzziart]

I don't understand the "crawling around on the ground" comments in reference to the Coats 200. One lays the wheel down onto a pad to break the bead (requires bending over - oh my!  ), then operates the lever at waist level to break the bead. <shrug> One must then bend over again to flip the wheel, repeat, bend over to pick the wheel up and put it on the changer. Oh the horrors. 

Well, the crawling around on the floor reference was meant for the rabid & max units, not the Coats or the bead breaker any of these manual changers. The Coats was my preference at the time I was looking for a manual changer but they were out of production and I wasn't able to locate anything used at that time.  And, bending over is an issue for me since I no longer have a "young" back (boo hoo, woe is me).  Yeah, I can bend at the waist but straightening back up is difficult for me, as is stooping down to pickup everything I drop on the floor  

Age has nothing to do with it, I just don't like working on the floor. Heck, I put the bike on lift to check the tire pressure 

Me either but haven't been motivated enough to put the bike on the lift to check TP.

I don’t find the Coats 200 I have here at my home shop to be a “crawling on ground” inconvenience in any way, either.  I like it very much

Me either although I don't have a Coats

guzziart: "Although I'm not a fan of crawling around on the ground to do a tire like with the Max & Rabid." No reference to the coats in his comment??

I don't understand the desire to work at ground level, so I guess we agree to disagree. Personally, my days of working on the floor are over. I don't care if everyone else works in a hole in the ground in my world the work comes to me and my back is better for it. YMMV

Yeah, I didn't mean to come off as enjoying to work at "ground level" I don't.

[Dukedesmo]

Quote from: Wayne Orwig on July 05, 2025, 01:41:52 PM

Then there is the fact that it turns a one hour job into a one day job.

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That's why I do my own, doing it when I want to rather than relying on someone else.

Plus saves me some money, what's not to like.

[Tom]

Us shorter guys are built lower to the ground.....so not a problem.      

[guzziart]

Us shorter guys are built lower to the ground.....so not a problem.      

I resemble that remark!

[Tom]

Me too.  Way less effort to stand up than youse beeg guys.     Kind of like working on tight spaces on cars/motorcycles.  I don't know how some of you beeg guys can your sausage fingers into teeny tiny spaces.   

[Moparnut72]

When I worked in the radial engine overhaul shop we had an expression that "the second world war was a myth." No way the industry could have built that many engines in that period of time. You think our machines are tight to work on you haven't seen anything. I think that all the Rosie The Riveters with their tiny hands had an easier job of it.
kk

[Chuck in Indiana]

My last trip to a dealer ended with the chain at max tightness zero slack, and the tires inflated to the max tire pressure from the sidewall. The tech was in his first week of work and it was a $400 bill just for the install of two tires

 

Well, there ya go. (shrug)