Coats Iron Tireman

[Hal]

Just picked this up last week, it belonged to a friend of mine who passed away in 2011. I believe his father had it in a shop on Long island in the fifties or sixties.

Does anyone know how old it might be?

I don't have the mount dismount bar, it may show up later, but if anyone has one I would like a picture. I can use it as is, with regular tire irons, and may either try to fabricate a bar, just grit my teeth and buy a Mongoose bar, if the origainal can't be found.

 

[slip knot]

I've got the same tire machine. It came out of a Texaco station in the early 70s when they went to an air operated machine. I MAY have the dismount bar. Do you know what it looked like. When I got the machine there was a bar there but we never used it because the machine was not bolted down.

 

[Catmochanic]

Hit up Coats, they may be some help?

 

[theoldwizard1]

Older than me ! The machine I learned on was very similar, but had an air operated cylinder on the bottom bead breaker.

My guess is early 60s, maybe late 50s. They will work on modern aluminum rims if you use extra padding and are very care full. I would get a NoMar mount/demount bar. Probably won't work on rims larger than 18".

 

[theoldwizard1]

Found this ad surfing the web. I think it says 1956 at the bottom.

 

[Farmall 1066]

I was going to go with late 40's-early 50's. Think later versions had a bigger center tube?

Hate to suggest this, but maybe use a HF 20% coupon, and buy their manual machine for just the bar? Might be the cheapest way to get it back in action.

 

[theoldwizard1]

Hate to suggest this, but maybe use a HF 20% coupon, and buy their manual machine for just the bar? Might be the cheapest way to get it back in action.

The NoMar mount/dismount bar is much better and will NOT scratch rims.

You will need lube. Murphy's Original Concentrated Tire and Tube Mounting Compound. Good stuff ! You can dilute it with water and use it in a spray bottle.

It also works to seat a bead !! How to Seat a Bead with Murphy's Soap for Tires

 

[Hal]

Thanks for the replies. Aluminum rims are a moot issue, most of the work it will be doing is farm implement rims. A few dents and gouges would improve some of them. The good stuff will still go out to my local tire guy. I set a 16" ford truck rim on it, and that just barely catches on the table, going to need a bigger cone for that center hole, too.

The original bar may still show up, my friend's son was not there the day I picked up the machine, and the shop was locked. The machine was outside waiting for me, along with a barrel of waste oil for my shop furnace.

Those old pictures are neat. When I was growing up in then fifties, the local Texaco station had one with an air operated bottom bead breaker, and manual top. It was still in use when the place was auctioned off in the mid seventies.

I hadn't thought about HF for a bar, I will check them out.

 

[2Big2Ride]

Bet the bar looks a lot like the bar for my Coats 220 manual motorcycle tire changer based on the old ad. If so, you could probably use the NoMar as already suggested.

 

[ezover]

Just picked this up last week, it belonged to a friend of mine who passed away in 2011. I believe his father had it in a shop on Long island in the fifties or sixties.

Does anyone know how old it might be?

I don't have the mount dismount bar, it may show up later, but if anyone has one I would like a picture. I can use it as is, with regular tire irons, and may either try to fabricate a bar, just grit my teeth and buy a Mongoose bar, if the origainal can't be found.

wow I have one that is very close to that, can not find a picture of the whole unit but here is the name plate.

 

[theoldwizard1]

It has set a 16" ford truck rim on it, and that just barely catches on the table, going to need a bigger cone for that center hole, too.

Get a piece of 1/2" flat bar steel, 3-4" wide and about 10-12" long. Cut a hole in the center slightly larger then the center post. Glue some heavy rubber to one side. Place it over the center post, rubber side down on your rim and then use the cone.

Making the table bigger would take a LOT of work !

 

[d.conrad]

Here are some pictures of my machine and the bar you asked about. Also, does anyone know want the thing in the attached pictures is for?

 

[Farmall 1066]

Pretty sure that attachment is for use with centerless wheels, like on early VW and Willys Jeeps.

 

[d.conrad]

Does anybody know what this attachment for the tire changing machine is for?