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One of our members helped me with a real ball ache of a problem here. It was when I was attempting to put a set of MCD red spot tyres on rims. The tyres are of a really hard compound and stretching them proved a real problem.After stabbing myself in the leg twice and hand once with a screwdriver and 30 minutes late I finally got ONE on! Clive (dgav407) came up with this simple but very effective way of mounting the tyres.....just cut an inch off the length of the inserts! Sounds like nothing but the tyres just flew on the rims without the heartache.
Here is a picture of the tyres with the changed inserts.The tyre on the left has an inch cut-off the insert where as the tyre on the right has not been touched,they look similar but believe me ,it makes a difference.
If you look carefully the the right hand tyres insert bulges out where the left is smooth and flush.I have left the inch there for comparison.
J.
One of our members helped me with a real ball ache of a problem here. It was when I was attempting to put a set of MCD red spot tyres on rims. The tyres are of a really hard compound and stretching them proved a real problem.After stabbing myself in the leg twice and hand once with a screwdriver and 30 minutes late I finally got ONE on! Clive (dgav407) came up with this simple but very effective way of mounting the tyres.....just cut an inch off the length of the inserts! Sounds like nothing but the tyres just flew on the rims without the heartache.
Here is a picture of the tyres with the changed inserts.The tyre on the left has an inch cut-off the insert where as the tyre on the right has not been touched,they look similar but believe me ,it makes a difference.
If you look carefully the the right hand tyres insert bulges out where the left is smooth and flush.I have left the inch there for comparison.
J.
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