making a tire machine for my ATV tires, from scrap items I have lying around the shop, welding it all together with a cheap flux core welder. Simder welders www.ssimder.co...
If only more people could see the potential of the stuff already lying around them, just waiting to be 'upcycled' into something genuinely useful. Great, inspirational video Tony, thank you.
A couple years ago I bought the cheapest fluxcore welder that eBay had to offer. It cost like $110 and doesn’t even really have a brand name or anything on it. Needless to say I wasn’t expecting much but holy leatherass does that thing work good, no shortage of power to burn stuff in. Rather I had the opposite problem when welding thin sheet metal, I couldn’t turn it down low enough to not burn through so I used about a 30 foot extension cord to kill the power a bit and then it worked great. I wouldn’t trust it for anything really important structurally but for what it is I couldn’t be happier with it, fluxcores have their place.
@@fitzeesfabrication.thefl-nf7hp neither am I but I found out that my blue 30’ cord sucks up just enough juice that I can tack thin old metal together with it 🤣 I just bought 2 more spools of wire for that thing a couple weeks ago, I’ve surely got my $100 out of it and then some.
I looked online for Simder and they listed the price as $130.00 but I did not check if that was Canadian or U. S. dollars. Still, rather inexpensive. NIce tire changing equipment for being made from scrap. Love it.
Boy, I remember using an all manual tire changer back in the early 70s during my gas station days. I put on some real muscle wrestling those old crusty truck tires. Great project Fitzee!
I can’t tell you how excited I was when I seen the title of this video! I’ve got new tires sitting here for both my wheelers and the lawn mower and I’ve been meaning to hack together a rig like that to do the job but I had a few questions, but you answered all of them today 👍 great vid bud, love both the channels!
Finally, I can give YOU a tip, Tony! Your tire machines both seem to be working fine...but if you wanna make 'em work effortlessly, go waste a few bucks on a gallon of "Ruglyde" rubber lubricant..it makes beads slip on so much easier you won't even need tools for the first bead..it seems pricey, but I've been using the same gallon since 1999 and plan on leaving whatever's left to my nephew when I croak in another hundred years. 🤭 Seriously, it's an essential and a little dab'll do ya..
@@Billlovelace4171951 Silicone doesn't dry, stays slippery. Can bite you in the butt. Found that out with an unsleeved suspension bushing. Backed over a small ledge & unseated a strut arm bushing. Carl TX
@@Billlovelace4171951 the problem there is that stuff is too slick and if you need to make the tire hang on the rim to air it up, it keeps slipping off. The rubber lube can be wiped off with a rag when needed.
Wow! I am impressed by how quickly you put all this together an by how well it works! You are a master at your craft! I have the Harbor Freight small tire changer. It works pretty good for what it is, but I think yours might work easier, especially on the bigger tires. Your scissor jack idea made breaking the bead so easy! Thanks Fitzee!
I've had 2 tires give me grief in the last couple weeks . I wound up using my floor jack under my truck to break the bead on my aluminum rim and my old john deere bucket on my trailer rim . That looks like a contraption I need to hot glue together , thanks for the show an tell .
Worst I time I ever had was trying to dis-mount small front tires on an old Snapper riding mower… full size rear tractor tires were much easier! Much respect for small tires. Wish I had the sense back then to build something to hold them!
Your tire changing device worked out well. There's only one problem with it, in that it's not portable, so you can't use it on the road if you get a flat tire. Decades ago when I used to do a lot of travelling, I made a bead breaker from some pipes and an old flywheel. Using that, two tire levers and a rubber hammer, I could take a tire off a rim, patch it with a vulcanising patch (which you can't get anymore) and put it back together again. One time I got two flat tires at the same time when I ran over some nails, so being able to fix it in the middle of the bush got me back on the road again. But for doing this in the shop, your device is easier to use than the method I used.
Never thought I'd see you using a flux-core MIG. but like you said a while back, it's ideal for what you are doing here and for outdoor use. And the wire size is 0.8mm not 8mm or .08 like you said! Guess you aren't used to metric wire sizes. Ha Ha.
Bloody hell- my flux core welding was bloody awful lol! Had too much current and needed to up the voltage- 🤔mmm have to think about it now. The othrr channel touched upon the need for different guide tip to shield distance in the welder tip for flux core.
I though to myself , well i wont need this, then i saw it work, now i need to do this, i have so many tires around that need replacing .Will this thing make car and truck tires??
@fitzeesfabrication.thefl-nf7hp Tony when I use Flux core I put a small fan blowing ax Cross the weld Flux core is not bothered by the wind like even outside using the co2 I don't need the fan and wouldnt any way since it tends to blow the gas away😊
Great video Tony that's just how I remembered taking off tyres manually when I started in a local garage repairing mostly cars the odd commercial and even classic cars in the mid 90's no fancy machine's you knew you had done a days graft kept ya fit tho no need for a gym 🤣♥️
What about taking an old steel wheel & cut it up to make a bead breaker that will go against the bead like on a full size tire machine. You could welded that to the side of the jack base & that would help to break the beed faster or better on stubborn beads that don't want to pop off. Great idea taking what you have to make a useful tool
Hi Tony. Nice, handy, homemade tool for the shop. Simple concept but seems to work well. If you needed to, you could probably adapt it to work with car tires too. That little welder will probably come in handy. It would be easy to pack if you needed to weld something up for a friend their place too.
I have had a great deal of trouble changing tires on a ride on mower and a trailer. I got a H. F. car tire changer and modified fittings for it to change the mower tires which works pretty well. Your set up is probably better and easier to use. Thanks Tony for the lesson. There is always a better, easier, cheaper way. that you teach us. I am now going to copy your tire tool for those more difficult tires and rims. In the past i lined up a tire with a car wheel and drove over it to break the bead and used starting ether to bead the tubeless tires. 😆
so many people would look at your stash of stuff & say, why is he keeping that junk? I strip stuff apart & keep odds & bits of stuff . springs, screws and stuff. it's been used many times.I keep odd bits of steel too, and people say, is that for the scrap man? nope, it's good stuff. if you put your mind to it, you can build almost anything. and you do a great job... keep them coming
in my shop (before retirement) I kept 5 gallon pails of scraps. Anything less than 12 inches went in one and over 12 inches was another. Pieces of pipe, lengths of threaded rod, hunks of various angle iron, square tube, brackets, etc. Boss asked why I saved it, and my answer was it's a resource pile. Why buy new when 90% of the time you need something small as a brace, bracket, etc.
@@fitzeesfabrication.thefl-nf7hp I would have to disagree on that one .. the newer telescopic one trumps the old school scissor jack.. ya need to get with the times old timer lol
Nice fast build. May I suggest using a 1/2” drill on setting 1. The screw type jacks and winches don’t tolerate the impact gun for long. It will be faster quieter and tons of torque. Once again awesome build.
I wanted to put new tires on my honda foreman. Breaking the bead on on the side opposite on this video was impossible. You have to move the bead 8" before it comes loose. I cut the bead with cutoff wheel. The rest was easy with hand tools.
This is a great video, like to see more of them. I have to say that I am a convert to flux core welding. A couple of obvious tips that are sometimes overlooked by those wanting to give it ago. If you have a gas/gasless mig remember to reverse your polarity. I have had a few friends of mine complain that they couldn't use the gasless feature on their welder and this was the reason. I have found for myself that the quality of wire I buy makes a difference in the results I get. Here in Australia it seems to be that the better quality wire comes packaged in foil. The 'generic' wire from the hardware stores comes packaged in cardboard or plastic. I always have better results with the slightly more expensive wire in foil packets, strange but true.
Why is MIG wire just mild steel? Or is it? I came across a roll that was more tensile in a closing down sale but I didn't buy it.- My mistake?😵💫 was it for Mig? I ask it because when you go to places that sell everything engineering etc, they're salesmen and although they're good, they also aren't from a trade in these things and so don't necessarily know.
Tony, Is there anything you can't manufacture. Everytime I watch your videos I'm amazed. Simply awesome. I love both of your channels. I personally can't get enough. 😊😊😊
If only more people could see the potential of the stuff already lying around them, just waiting to be 'upcycled' into something genuinely useful. Great, inspirational video Tony, thank you.
heres proof you don't have to spend £100's on fancy machines, nice work tony
You mean there’s a better method than crowbars and cussing? 🤣
Large hammers bars cussing and band aids
A couple years ago I bought the cheapest fluxcore welder that eBay had to offer. It cost like $110 and doesn’t even really have a brand name or anything on it. Needless to say I wasn’t expecting much but holy leatherass does that thing work good, no shortage of power to burn stuff in. Rather I had the opposite problem when welding thin sheet metal, I couldn’t turn it down low enough to not burn through so I used about a 30 foot extension cord to kill the power a bit and then it worked great. I wouldn’t trust it for anything really important structurally but for what it is I couldn’t be happier with it, fluxcores have their place.
Wonder if you put a dimmer switch in the line to lower Amp?? Not a electrician so don't know if it will work
@@fitzeesfabrication.thefl-nf7hp neither am I but I found out that my blue 30’ cord sucks up just enough juice that I can tack thin old metal together with it 🤣 I just bought 2 more spools of wire for that thing a couple weeks ago, I’ve surely got my $100 out of it and then some.
🇨🇦 Never heard it called a "one way" before, must be a Newfie thing. A wheel wrench here.👍
I looked online for Simder and they listed the price as $130.00 but I did not check if that was Canadian or U. S. dollars. Still, rather inexpensive. NIce tire changing equipment for being made from scrap. Love it.
Boy, I remember using an all manual tire changer back in the early 70s during my gas station days. I put on some real muscle wrestling those old crusty truck tires. Great project Fitzee!
I can’t tell you how excited I was when I seen the title of this video! I’ve got new tires sitting here for both my wheelers and the lawn mower and I’ve been meaning to hack together a rig like that to do the job but I had a few questions, but you answered all of them today 👍 great vid bud, love both the channels!
Great idea Tony
Heck yeah!!! Fitzee! You're the man!!!!. I love learning from the o.g's!!! Thank you for the knowledge brother! God bless!
Finally, I can give YOU a tip, Tony!
Your tire machines both seem to be working fine...but if you wanna make 'em work effortlessly, go waste a few bucks on a gallon of "Ruglyde" rubber lubricant..it makes beads slip on so much easier you won't even need tools for the first bead..it seems pricey, but I've been using the same gallon since 1999 and plan on leaving whatever's left to my nephew when I croak in another hundred years.
🤭
Seriously, it's an essential and a little dab'll do ya..
Thanks I'll looking into that.
I use silicone spray or Armor all
Great video👍
@@Billlovelace4171951 Silicone doesn't dry, stays slippery. Can bite you in the butt. Found that out with an unsleeved suspension bushing. Backed over a small ledge & unseated a strut arm bushing. Carl TX
@@Billlovelace4171951 the problem there is that stuff is too slick and if you need to make the tire hang on the rim to air it up, it keeps slipping off. The rubber lube can be wiped off with a rag when needed.
Wow! I am impressed by how quickly you put all this together an by how well it works! You are a master at your craft! I have the Harbor Freight small tire changer. It works pretty good for what it is, but I think yours might work easier, especially on the bigger tires. Your scissor jack idea made breaking the bead so easy! Thanks Fitzee!
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I love it, such a clever and simple tool, thanks Fitziee!!!
Great rig. Gotta make one for my lawn tractors. Thanks Tony!
Fitzee that's an episode making a fume hood, you could do one from an old furnace blower motor and squirrel cage.
You know I have one up stairs in shop! Now you got me thinking!
Excellent Tony, great idea thanks for sharing, another project on the Xmas to do list lol to save the back and using the old tyre levers 😂👍
The bench of every tool
I've had 2 tires give me grief in the last couple weeks . I wound up using my floor jack under my truck to break the bead on my aluminum rim and my old john deere bucket on my trailer rim . That looks like a contraption I need to hot glue together , thanks for the show an tell .
Not rubbish, It's all good stuff you just need the imagination 👍
Very very cool tony
Worst I time I ever had was trying to dis-mount small front tires on an old Snapper riding mower… full size rear tractor tires were much easier! Much respect for small tires. Wish I had the sense back then to build something to hold them!
Great job Fitzee, nice simple project, thanks
I'm going to leg it to the patent office🤣
Great idea Fitzee 💡 👍, works very well. Take care
Liked it Tony, cheers 👍💪✌
I really liked this video. That was wicked smart as they say in Boston.
Fantastic work 👏
Your tire changing device worked out well. There's only one problem with it, in that it's not portable, so you can't use it on the road if you get a flat tire. Decades ago when I used to do a lot of travelling, I made a bead breaker from some pipes and an old flywheel. Using that, two tire levers and a rubber hammer, I could take a tire off a rim, patch it with a vulcanising patch (which you can't get anymore) and put it back together again. One time I got two flat tires at the same time when I ran over some nails, so being able to fix it in the middle of the bush got me back on the road again. But for doing this in the shop, your device is easier to use than the method I used.
Man that turned out awesome. Yes, I have subscribed to your other channel as well. The Tips were good
A genius in action.............thanks boss
Oh, scissor jack- ver-ry vinteresting!
great job i have a go making one thank you
Great insight.
Right on 👍
Never thought I'd see you using a flux-core MIG. but like you said a while back, it's ideal for what you are doing here and for outdoor use. And the wire size is 0.8mm not 8mm or .08 like you said! Guess you aren't used to metric wire sizes. Ha Ha.
Nope not yet. I'm use to .030. Or .035. Lol
Bloody hell- my flux core welding was bloody awful lol! Had too much current and needed to up the voltage- 🤔mmm have to think about it now.
The othrr channel touched upon the need for different guide tip to shield distance in the welder tip for flux core.
Super Awesome!!! thanks 👍
Neat idea !
Flux core is quite expensive in New Zealand. Very much so compared to straight wire.
Thank you for sharing:)
Dishwashing soap...aKa =tire lube is your friend:)
I though to myself , well i wont need this, then i saw it work, now i need to do this, i have so many tires around that need replacing .Will this thing make car and truck tires??
Think it would have to be beefed up more for bigger tires. ATV tires have a soft side wall unlike car tires.
love it
Here for support
I like it 👍👍
Do you have a fume hood I noticed the welding smoke being pulled away>?
No I need one.
@fitzeesfabrication.thefl-nf7hp Tony when I use Flux core I put a small fan blowing ax
Cross the weld Flux core is not bothered by the wind like even outside using the co2 I don't need the fan and wouldnt any way since it tends to blow the gas away😊
The best tip i got for welding with flux core,is Drag for slag.Dont try to push a weld like you can with mig.
Great video Tony that's just how I remembered taking off tyres manually when I started in a local garage repairing mostly cars the odd commercial and even classic cars in the mid 90's no fancy machine's you knew you had done a days graft kept ya fit tho no need for a gym 🤣♥️
What about taking an old steel wheel & cut it up to make a bead breaker that will go against the bead like on a full size tire machine. You could welded that to the side of the jack base & that would help to break the beed faster or better on stubborn beads that don't want to pop off. Great idea taking what you have to make a useful tool
Hi Tony. Nice, handy, homemade tool for the shop. Simple concept but seems to work well. If you needed to, you could probably adapt it to work with car tires too. That little welder will probably come in handy. It would be easy to pack if you needed to weld something up for a friend their place too.
I have had a great deal of trouble changing tires on a ride on mower and a trailer. I got a H. F. car tire changer and modified fittings for it to change the mower tires which works pretty well. Your set up is probably better and easier to use. Thanks Tony for the lesson. There is always a better, easier, cheaper way. that you teach us. I am now going to copy your tire tool for those more difficult tires and rims. In the past i lined up a tire with a car wheel and drove over it to break the bead and used starting ether to bead the tubeless tires. 😆
so many people would look at your stash of stuff & say, why is he keeping that junk? I strip stuff apart & keep odds & bits of stuff . springs, screws and stuff. it's been used many times.I keep odd bits of steel too, and people say, is that for the scrap man? nope, it's good stuff.
if you put your mind to it, you can build almost anything. and you do a great job... keep them coming
in my shop (before retirement) I kept 5 gallon pails of scraps. Anything less than 12 inches went in one and over 12 inches was another. Pieces of pipe, lengths of threaded rod, hunks of various angle iron, square tube, brackets, etc. Boss asked why I saved it, and my answer was it's a resource pile. Why buy new when 90% of the time you need something small as a brace, bracket, etc.
Oh the dreaded tire change sure done a number of car tires in my time but i could use a luttle setup like this
OMG Tony that was a great DIY video. I'm going to try that one. Thanks
Nice idea with the jack and impact .. see that somewhere once before lol
My chose of jack is better then yours. Hahaha
@@fitzeesfabrication.thefl-nf7hp I would have to disagree on that one .. the newer telescopic one trumps the old school scissor jack.. ya need to get with the times old timer lol
Very good as always.
Nice fast build. May I suggest using a 1/2” drill on setting 1. The screw type jacks and winches don’t tolerate the impact gun for long. It will be faster quieter and tons of torque. Once again awesome build.
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I wanted to put new tires on my honda foreman. Breaking the bead on on the side opposite on this video was impossible. You have to move the bead 8" before it comes loose. I cut the bead with cutoff wheel. The rest was easy with hand tools.
I did enjoy it! And the project was a winner. Anything that will make the chord easier gets my vote.
This is a great video, like to see more of them. I have to say that I am a convert to flux core welding. A couple of obvious tips that are sometimes overlooked by those wanting to give it ago. If you have a gas/gasless mig remember to reverse your polarity. I have had a few friends of mine complain that they couldn't use the gasless feature on their welder and this was the reason. I have found for myself that the quality of wire I buy makes a difference in the results I get. Here in Australia it seems to be that the better quality wire comes packaged in foil. The 'generic' wire from the hardware stores comes packaged in cardboard or plastic. I always have better results with the slightly more expensive wire in foil packets, strange but true.
Good tips. Roll I was using was in foil.
Welder on sale for $104.00. Dollars. Pretty good buy!
Simder customer service sucks. Buyers beware if you ever need to return it.
Great job on making this works perfect 👌
Where there’s a will there’s a way
Why is MIG wire just mild steel? Or is it?
I came across a roll that was more tensile in a closing down sale but I didn't buy it.- My mistake?😵💫 was it for Mig? I ask it because when you go to places that sell everything engineering etc, they're salesmen and although they're good, they also aren't from a trade in these things and so don't necessarily know.
There are a number of different styles of mig wire. I'm not up on it but some are softer thrn others
Fitzee you are amazing
This guy is great.
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Tony, Is there anything you can't manufacture. Everytime I watch your videos I'm amazed. Simply awesome. I love both of your channels. I personally can't get enough. 😊😊😊