Re: Ohhhh the pain of split rims
[Re: bigdad]
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07/27/18 12:11 PM
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Looks like Laos , or Vietnam to me
The lips of fools bring them strife, and their mouths invite a beating.Proverbs 18:6
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Re: Ohhhh the pain of split rims
[Re: bigdad]
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07/27/18 12:51 PM
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Look at the ring in the concrete from the rim coming apart.
Have a great day Iowan
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Re: Ohhhh the pain of split rims
[Re: Mr. Smurf]
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07/28/18 04:56 AM
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I started working in service stations in the early 1960s, I was warn many times about spilt rims hurting people when inflating them. I was taught from day one to always point the split ring away from me and lower the hoist onto them when inflating them. The safety cages came many years later I heard about a older black guy getting his head cut off by a split ring in a truck stop in Indio, CA in the mid 1960s, that ring went through the roof of the repair shop also I have had a standard rim blow the outer edge off almost halfway around that rim from seating the tubeless 6 ply pickup tire without soaping the tire and rim first Many ways to get hurt working on cars, trucks, airplane and motorcycles as well as boats, let alone racing them Be safe out there
Last edited by Cab_Burge; 07/28/18 04:57 AM.
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Re: Ohhhh the pain of split rims
[Re: bigdad]
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07/28/18 11:42 AM
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Many years ago a farmer acquaintance of mine, and his son, were fixing a flat on a manure spreader. Read that as, rusty, nasty, and used tire.
When the ring blew off, it basically took a part of his head from his hairline with it.
It didn't kill him, but it sure did ruin him as a strapping hard working middle aged man.
Ever since I won't even be in the same area when one of these (from 15" to semi size) is being inflated.
It takes gasoline to interest me.
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Re: Ohhhh the pain of split rims
[Re: bigdad]
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07/29/18 10:09 PM
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He was lucky ring was on the down side.
Have a great day Iowan
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Re: Ohhhh the pain of split rims
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07/31/18 06:50 PM
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When I started in the truck maintenance business, over 1/2 our fleet still had split rims. First thing I was taught about split rims is to let the air out first thing.
Then the last thing we did was put the air back in after the wheel/tire was mounted on the truck with a long hose and clip chuck.
We did not have a cage, never did get one. Glad those things(split rims) are mostly gone now except for on industrial equipment.
The dude in the vid had no idea what hit him! Same here I started as a young lad in the 70's working on cement trucks. flat beds, tractor trailer, doing split rims and brake service, we had no cages either, all it took was the first time a ring came off inflating a tire to scare the living $h1t out of you! to handle those things like live grenades...I still see a few old dumps nowadays still running splits, no way Jose! that I'd touch one today
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Re: Ohhhh the pain of split rims
[Re: bigdad]
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08/03/18 11:26 PM
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Did it in the late 70s at a service station. You would break the bead with a hammer that was designed for that, demount, mount, and pray. I always filled them under the lift arms of the hoist. Had only one blow, it bent the pins that held the arms on the lift, and threw me against the wall, no, I wasn't using a locking air chuck, I was on top of it. Those things scare the sh*t out of me to this day.
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Re: Ohhhh the pain of split rims
[Re: nuthinbutmopar]
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08/07/18 02:00 AM
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did the master seargent have stripes on his tighty whities??LOL
my ladder of success is missing some rungs
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Re: Ohhhh the pain of split rims
[Re: bigdad]
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09/02/18 01:28 PM
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Did them but always used a cage.Once you actually see one come apart you will never do them without a cage.Had a kid at work that was going to play with some once.I told him no way would we touch them.Didnt have a cage so off they went.Rocky
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