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Workmate as Motorcycle Tire Changing Stand

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Vintage Veloce

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For some reason, after years of using a milk crate, I finally realized my Workmate might make a good tire changing stand...

I have a vintage Workmate 79-001 Type 2 (WM625) with replaced jaws.
I bought a 12" long piece of 1/2" stainless steel round bar, and I filed a small V in one side of the jaws:
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****, instant tire changing stand!
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And it worked great!
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Next time I might slide piece of heavy plastic or something down the rod to protect the wood surface of the workmate and the wheel. I have an old plastic/nylon cutting board I could drill a hole in...
 
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I realized my wheel was scrapping the workmate's wood surface. Not such a big deal, but it's nice to be able to easily rotate the wheel and i wouldn't want to scrape up some of the fancier wheels. I've seen some wheel changers have a big plastic / nylon disks... so I took a jigsaw and drill to one of our old cutting boards:
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Perfect, I think.
 
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logical said:
I was expecting to see someone who actually thought a Workmate would support an entire motorcycle without collapsing.
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I mean, I had a 400lbs friend on top of me once, but she wasn't a motorcycle.

Edit: Oh, you mean the table.
 
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