"Olebiker" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> I have received a new set of bandsaw tires from Rockler and I need to
> install them. I have never replaced them before. Does anyone have any
> tips on doing this that might lower my cussing quotient?
>
> I have images of using the plastic tire "irons" that I use to mount
> bicycle tires.
>
> Dick Durbin
> Tallahassee
>
I just installed these same tires on my 14" bandsaw. What worked for me
was to set a large open cardboard box on it's side. I put a wheel and a
tire in the box and placed a small electric heater in front of it. When
the wheel was warm to the touch, I put it on my workbench. My son, who is
bigger than I am, started the tire on the rim while I stretched and pushed
it in place. As I made progress, he moved his grip to keep it from popping
out. It takes strong fingers, but it worked for us. I tried metal bicycle
tire irons and clamps and didn't have any luck.
By the way, the new tires made a world of difference in my old saw. I
forgot how smooth it could run.
Don
Olebiker <[email protected]> wrote:
>I have received a new set of bandsaw tires from Rockler and I need to
>install them. I have never replaced them before. Does anyone have any
>tips on doing this that might lower my cussing quotient?
>
>I have images of using the plastic tire "irons" that I use to mount
>bicycle tires.
Here's what I did. I don't know if this is the "right" way, or even a
"good" way, but it got the job done for me.
I've got a couple of one-handed reversable clamps
(http://www.tool-net.co.uk/data/index.php?ToolID=316762). I turned
them around into spreader mode, and used them at right angles to each
other to stretch the tire out large enough to just barely fit over the
wheel. I slipped the tire on, released the clamps, and was done.
I couldn't see any other way that didn't involve, as you say, using up
my cussing quota.
Suffolk instructions with their blades said to soak in 150° water for
15 minutes then stretch onto the wheels. Worked slick.
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 20:37:02 -0600, Don Wheeler
<[email protected]> wrote:
>"Olebiker" <[email protected]> wrote in
>news:[email protected]:
>
>> I have received a new set of bandsaw tires from Rockler and I need to
>> install them. I have never replaced them before. Does anyone have any
>> tips on doing this that might lower my cussing quotient?
>>
>> I have images of using the plastic tire "irons" that I use to mount
>> bicycle tires.
>>
>> Dick Durbin
>> Tallahassee
>>
>
>I just installed these same tires on my 14" bandsaw. What worked for me
>was to set a large open cardboard box on it's side. I put a wheel and a
>tire in the box and placed a small electric heater in front of it. When
>the wheel was warm to the touch, I put it on my workbench. My son, who is
>bigger than I am, started the tire on the rim while I stretched and pushed
>it in place. As I made progress, he moved his grip to keep it from popping
>out. It takes strong fingers, but it worked for us. I tried metal bicycle
>tire irons and clamps and didn't have any luck.
>
>By the way, the new tires made a world of difference in my old saw. I
>forgot how smooth it could run.
>
>Don