is thee a way of removing tyres of car wheels yourself. i dont need the tyres so it doesnt matter if they get damaged. cheers. do you think its true you can get around 8 pound weighing in an old alloy wheel?
Yeh Alloys are worth around 10 a pop.... We usually use a Stihl Saw it'll chew blades though be warned... And give you plenty of Rubber dust but we do 50 or so rims in a go....
There was a guy killed here last week, while blowing up a new truck tyre. It exploded, and apparently so did he. I normally just let them down, then cut round them leaving the bead where it is,
If you want rid and can keep the tyre in 1 piece remember most farmers need tyres to weigh the covers down on their silage[sp?] in a few months. Why pay a garage a few quid a pop to dispose when a farmer will take em for free?
One of those electric reciprocating saws to cut around the sidewall them a dremel with a reinforced cutting disc to cut through what's left and the steel wires. Then take them to the tip for free. I love the cracking noise they make when they are cut.
doing this for years, release the pressure in the tyre, crack the bead boths sides using a lump or sledge hammer, your be how strong it is, use a couple of crow bars (flat ended) and remove same as you would a bike tyre HTH
I tried it with two crow bars, they bounced back and one of them gave me a screamer of a black eye..... So I just burnt them istead. The yard didn't care how sooty they were.....
dont try this with ur stretched tyres either, only scrap, split the beads = knackered and dangerous tyres..
You can break the bead by using your car and drive onto the sidewall of the tyre. Dodgy though I have a couple of sets of scrap alloys, might go weigh them in tomorrow
i been wondering this as have a fair few scrap wheels and tyres.....once you managed to get the tyres off where would you dispose of the tyres tho?
My dump has a skip full of whole wheels and tyres begging to be taken apart and weighed in. Theres money in scrap as they say.
