Tire Bead blaster

[2mJps]

What kind do you have or have used at work? They all seam high priced for the DIY.

 

[Fedwrench]

I use a cheetah at work. I don't use it that often but, it's a lifesaver when you have a difficult to seat tire.

 

[lukedwag]

I built one from an old propane tank. Welded a schedule 40 coupling into a hole I cut with a hole saw then attached a ball valve with a ******. Took a stub of pipe and heated the end so I could hammer shape it the way I wanted. In the port where the valve was I installed a setup from an old portable air tank to fill and it also had a port for a gauge.

Thing works mint. I run it to 80 or 90 psi.

 

[Xxslyer1]

I use a cheetah at work. I don't use it that often but, it's a lifesaver when you have a difficult to seat tire.

Same here, for the 5-7 times a year I use it.

 

[stevenhs]

We have the Hunter Revolution. If that doesn't work we use the cheetah.

 

[jim faston]

The guy in this video made his own:

 

[AJO]

We built one out of an air pig sitting around shop for our service truck. For the shop, we used 25 feet of inch and a quarter hydraulic line hooked to the 80 gallon shop compressor. One 1-1/4 black pipe off compressor tank to ball valve and pipe union. Ball valve and pipe ****** at the other end. Squeezed the end off ****** close to flat.The union works great for a quick coupler.Sure makes doing truck tires easier.

 

[jdjm]

I bought mine on ebay for $50 shipped.

 

[txvwnut]

I bought mine on ebay for $50 shipped.

Same here, it's gets delivered tomorrow. Gonna put a hose setup on it as my 40 year old freon bottle rusted through.

 

[Leaflessshadetree]

I don't recall the brand of mine but it wasn't overly expensive. If I recall around $40.
Works good.

 

[xjfish]

Currently use a Cheetah. Have used a Chinese unit in the past and it worked just fine, pretty simple concept. Its all about the valve...

 

[Leaflessshadetree]

I don't recall the brand of mine but it wasn't overly expensive. If I recall around $40.

 

[mach2mack]

We have a cheetah and beadzooka at work. I see the lube and tire guys use both they both seem to work.

 

[slip knot]

nobody uses starting fluid and a match anymore? The tire jumps around a bit but it works ok.

 

[panknuckshovel]

nobody uses starting fluid and a match anymore? The tire jumps around a bit but it works ok.

Aqua Net hairspray works as well. You can actually connect a spray tube to the can nozzle and get it up between the rim and tire.

 

[bobcatdan]

nobody uses starting fluid and a match anymore? The tire jumps around a bit but it works ok.

Use to, works good on the really stubborn ones. I have a cheetah bead setter now. Cheetah use to hold the patent on the design and was stupid expensive at about $400 for one. Patent expires, cheetahs drop to $250 and everybody makes one now.

 

[gungatim]

I built one from an old propane tank. Welded a schedule 40 coupling into a hole I cut with a hole saw then attached a ball valve with a ******. Took a stub of pipe and heated the end so I could hammer shape it the way I wanted. In the port where the valve was I installed a setup from an old portable air tank to fill and it also had a port for a gauge.

Thing works mint. I run it to 80 or 90 psi.

exactly what I did, but I used a spare air tank I had with a bad hose. just cut a hole in the end used coupling welded on. most expensive part was the $20 ball valve...

 

[Pipe]

Beadzooka has awesome ergonomics but the arksen one on amazon works just fine for like 60 bucks.

 

[2mJps]

I just got a Bead Basooka its light years ahead of the cheatah. I work part time at a shop thats geared more for tire repair and light work oilchanges and such. They fix alot of farm tires,truck tires and bobcat tires they may use theirs several times a day.

 

[KraftwerkMk1Jetta]

I use the cheetah at work. Like others said, it's not used that often, but when you need it it's nice to have.