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<blockquote data-quote="Lazy Sod" data-source="post: 8158219" data-attributes="member: 207"><p>That's quite a saving. I used to change all my tyres from tractors down to cars and motor cycles but at 78, it's all beyond me now. I still mend bicycle punctures for Mrs LS, but they're easy.</p><p></p><p>Years ago when I used to do it, all the wheels had to come off. The beads had to be broken by either hammering in a piece of angle iron with a sharpened edge or placing a plank in the correct position on the tyre and running a tractor wheel up it. Of course, the wheel had to be lifted up and dropped onto it's other side as well. Tyre lubricant was unheard of. Until I converted an old fridge pump into a compressor, all the tyres had to be inflated with a foot pump.</p><p></p><p>In terms of the best real tyre levers that I ever had, they were a pair of pre-war car leaf springs about 3' long. Come to think of it, back in the day there were no specialist tyre fitting companies. Tyres were supplied by the local machinery dealer. They would fit them if required.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lazy Sod, post: 8158219, member: 207"] That's quite a saving. I used to change all my tyres from tractors down to cars and motor cycles but at 78, it's all beyond me now. I still mend bicycle punctures for Mrs LS, but they're easy. Years ago when I used to do it, all the wheels had to come off. The beads had to be broken by either hammering in a piece of angle iron with a sharpened edge or placing a plank in the correct position on the tyre and running a tractor wheel up it. Of course, the wheel had to be lifted up and dropped onto it's other side as well. Tyre lubricant was unheard of. Until I converted an old fridge pump into a compressor, all the tyres had to be inflated with a foot pump. In terms of the best real tyre levers that I ever had, they were a pair of pre-war car leaf springs about 3' long. Come to think of it, back in the day there were no specialist tyre fitting companies. Tyres were supplied by the local machinery dealer. They would fit them if required. [/QUOTE]
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