maf260
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Hi,
I need to remove a set of tyres from some rims I'm going to weigh in. The tyres can be sacrificed, they're nothing to write home about. What's the best/quickest/easiest way to get the tyres off at home please? I don't have any levers etc. I'm thinking of cutting them off with either a cutting disc in my grinder or with my reciprocal saw (assuming I can find either tool in my garage!).
Thanks
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Last Edit: Oct 13, 2022 8:46:10 GMT by maf260
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Hi, I need to remove a set of tyres from some rims I'm going to weigh in. The tyres can be sacrificed, they're nothing to write home about. What's the best/quickest/easiest way to get the tyres off at home please? I don't have any levers etc. I'm thinking of cutting them off with either a cutting disc in my grinder or with my reciprocal saw (assuming I can find either tool in my garage!). Thanks Use the traditional truck tyre method: Break the beads with a chunk of angle iron hammered between the tyre and the wheel Clamp one side down with a welding clamp/G-cramp and pry the tyre off with a couple of long tyre levers. Or crowbars if that's all you have. Do the same for the other side. Having done one, think sod that for a laugh, and get the others taken off on a machine. Cutting car tyres that are made from rubber, held together with overlaid nylon and steel belting is similarly hard work and that's with a decent saw - don't tyre it with an angle grinder unless you want a custom moulded gimp mask  |
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maf260
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Oct 13, 2022 10:22:38 GMT
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Hi, I need to remove a set of tyres from some rims I'm going to weigh in. The tyres can be sacrificed, they're nothing to write home about. What's the best/quickest/easiest way to get the tyres off at home please? I don't have any levers etc. I'm thinking of cutting them off with either a cutting disc in my grinder or with my reciprocal saw (assuming I can find either tool in my garage!). Thanks Use the traditional truck tyre method: Break the beads with a chunk of angle iron hammered between the tyre and the wheel Clamp one side down with a welding clamp/G-cramp and pry the tyre off with a couple of long tyre levers. Or crowbars if that's all you have. Do the same for the other side. Having done one, think sod that for a laugh, and get the others taken off on a machine. Cutting car tyres that are made from rubber, held together with overlaid nylon and steel belting is similarly hard work and that's with a decent saw - don't tyre it with an angle grinder unless you want a custom moulded gimp mask Thank you. I thought that might be the sage advice! |
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melle
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Oct 13, 2022 10:31:37 GMT
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I wouldn't waste any time on it if you don't have the right tools. If you expect to make your money back from weighing in the rims (i.e., if they're alloys), have the tyres removed as nickwheeler suggests. If they're steel rims removing the tyres is not worth the bother anyway (unless the tip/ scrap dealer insist on it and you can't get rid of them by giving them away). |
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Oct 13, 2022 16:04:22 GMT
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I break the bead using a hi-lift or farm Jack under a towbar, or other immoveable object.
Bead breaking is the difficult part, once you've done it getting the tyre off is easy.
Could probably use a scissor Jack or trolley Jack if you don't have a hi-lift
Edit- I have broken beads by driving a front wheel over the rim laid flat on the floor, whilst watching out of the drivers window, but that only works if your vehicle is heavy enough!
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Dez
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Oct 13, 2022 18:33:52 GMT
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You don’t need to break the beads of you’re scrapping the wheels and tyres. Just chop straight through the rim lip and the tyre bead to release them. A crowbar or big janky screwdriver will the suffice to pull them apart.
I did a dozen the other week and it took about 20 mins and used 3 cutting discs for the lot. It’s not hard.
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melle
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Oct 13, 2022 20:41:13 GMT
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If you've got a welder, a grinder and some scrap metal you could make a bead breaker, but for a single set of wheels I wouldn't bother unless you're desperate for a few quid or because no one will take rims with tyres on.
This is my bead breaker:     I must have done about 30-40 sets of wheels with it in about 10 years, works a treat. |
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Oct 13, 2022 21:31:28 GMT
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Bear in mind that you typically have to pay to get rid of tyres these days, which spoils the cost benefit equation....
Nick
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maf260
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Oct 13, 2022 21:35:44 GMT
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Thanks for all the great (and varied!) replies. I went to a friendly local back street tyre place and he removed them for £10 which included throwing the useless tyres on his scrap pile. As the rims were only 15" Mini wheels they weren't worth a fortune, hence me considering removing them myself. With the other 8 wheels I had I scored a happy £204 from the scrap man.
Where there's muck....
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Oct 13, 2022 21:38:40 GMT
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Thanks for all the great (and varied!) replies. I went to a friendly local back street tyre place and he removed them for £10 which included throwing the useless tyres on his scrap pile. As the rims were only 15" Mini wheels they weren't worth a fortune, hence me considering removing them myself. With the other 8 wheels I had I scored a happy £204 from the scrap man. Where there's muck.... If you expect to do any more, it's probably worth spending £50 of that on manual tyre changers from Ebay. As my local garage charges £12 to fit a tyre, swapping four would pay for the tool. |
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Too late now but dropping the bulldozer blade on them works as a bead breaker. Alternatively just burn the tyres off.
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Too late now but dropping the bulldozer blade on them works as a bead breaker. Alternatively just burn the tyres off. is that before or after you've nailed a jelly to the ceiling? |
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maf260
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Oct 14, 2022 10:23:30 GMT
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I'm having a clear out of my garages, so doubt there will be any more for quite a while - these were accumulated over some years. After finding somebody local who removed and disposed of the 4 tyres for a total of £10 I can't imagine I'd ever bother doing it myself in future. In the past I'd have just thrown stuff away at the tip, but for some reason I looked into whether there was any scrap value in my rubbish - £204 for the alloys and another £47 for 5 old batteries!
Thanks again for all the replies.
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Oct 14, 2022 11:42:47 GMT
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Wish I could get rid of tyres 4 for a tenner, cheapest I've found locally is the local council tip, 5 tyres for £20, but only 5 a month
Solved in part by using 2 cars.....😆
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Bear in mind that you typically have to pay to get rid of tyres these days, which spoils the cost benefit equation.... Nick Aye but once you cut them up they fit in the wheelie bin. |
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Oct 18, 2022 21:47:50 GMT
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Tyres have a really high energy per kilo, you might as well recycle them by chucking them on the fire in bits to keep the house warm this winter.
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Oct 18, 2022 22:19:39 GMT
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Tyres have a really high energy per kilo, you might as well recycle them by chucking them on the fire in bits to keep the house warm this winter. Bonfire night coming up!!  |
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Last Edit: Oct 18, 2022 22:20:00 GMT by colnerov
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Oct 18, 2022 22:27:24 GMT
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Wish I could get rid of tyres 4 for a tenner, cheapest I've found locally is the local council tip, 5 tyres for £20, but only 5 a month Solved in part by using 2 cars.....😆 Our local tip still take tyres for free, I suspect if I rolled up with a lot they would ask questions but for the odd few I dispose of every few years they are fine. |
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Tyres have a really high energy per kilo, you might as well recycle them by chucking them on the fire in bits to keep the house warm this winter. I remember a prototype power station which was fueled by burning tyres a few years ago, never heard anything more about it. I guess the environmental concerns put paid to it, but I'd have thought with the correct filtration it would have been fine. Also remember the row about heating a swimming pool with heat provided by the local crematorium, the NIMBYs soon put paid to that one....🙄 |
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Tyres have a really high energy per kilo, you might as well recycle them by chucking them on the fire in bits to keep the house warm this winter. I remember a prototype power station which was fueled by burning tyres a few years ago, never heard anything more about it. I guess the environmental concerns put paid to it, but I'd have thought with the correct filtration it would have been fine. Also remember the row about heating a swimming pool with heat provided by the local crematorium, the NIMBYs soon put paid to that one....🙄 Our local swimming pool gets its heat from the crematorium, we also did one at work up in north wales that was the same so they are about but its not something they publicise. |
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