rain coming in so wanted to get tools / projects out of the driveway after farting around with seating bead on tire for, like, a bazillion attempts, succeeded trick: put wheel back on the tire changing tool so that wheel is supported & tire hangs down / loose and thus >>>
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2/ ...at least the lower bead is semi-seated. Then hit it with 5 gallons of 120 PSI air from the bead blaster BA DUMP! tire seated and at 20 PSI instantaneously (had to release air to get down to 10 PSI) then >>>
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3/ went to remount tire on axle. The broken bolt I got out w the welding trick was 5/16 dia 24 TPI (fine) x 3/4" I've got tons of 18 TPI on hand, but no 24 TPI masked up, visited hardware store - ZERO in stock. thinking "damn, gonna have to machine my own. F", but ...
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4/ turns out that they had a few in grade 8. Got those, came home, chased the threads with a tap to clean them up, mounted wheel. Bob's your uncle. Only took a MIG welder, an oxy torch, a tire changing tool, a tap, and a trip out into the plague to change the tire!
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5/ needless to say I'm appalled that I don't have an inventory of 5/16 x 24 TPI x various lengths on hand off to Monster Fastener to repair that defect
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6/ So that's good. I can mow the lawn this weekend. Next up: take apart the carburetor on the pressure washer and fix it, so I can clean out some barn stalls. The infrastructure pyramid ride never ends.
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