E.Marquez

560 pound crate following me home
What is it?

I am a machinist it is a machine but it’s not a machinist machine
I am a motorcycle technician it’s not a motorcycle

Wicky

Fort or a spaceship - Anything you want it to be! Crates are big boxes for big kids :-)

Crates

VTRsquid

Its going to have to have quite a few kids in it to weigh 560lb tho...
its not a machinist's machine so it is a machine then... a really big air compressor ?

E.Marquez

Nope have one of those already ..its a machine I've been borrowing time on from friend locally, he moved and took his machine with him....and Im not going back to doing the job manually (when I can avoid it)

This is after all a motorcycle site.... Its not a lift I have two of those and no room for a third (yet), but its made by the same company that made one of my lifts...lol

VTRsquid

Tyre machine

E.Marquez

and we have a winner
Unfortunately because of a 187-2/3 rules violation of Less then 5 players in the game your prize is forfeited

Wolverine

Quite the investment! How much did you spend? Me and my riding buddies (4 of us) have been wanting to go in on a used one. Just haven't found the right deal yet.

VTRsquid

Exciting times! Thats going to make life a lot easier!
Bit bummed about not getting the prize tho

E.Marquez

I've been looking for a used Coats RC200 for several years now, no idea where used ones come and go but it has not been anyplace I can find.

This one was just $$325 ......well it would be $325 for all four of you and your buddies or $1300..and that includes delivery to your door right now. I picked up as its mostly local and I did not want to wait for shiping time lag

I had concerns at the non Coats off brands..but the company marketing this Derek Weaver has been importing this machine for many years now..and it gets great reviews... They also imported one of the lifts I have..I bought it from DW 10 years ago, use it every day...still going strong https://www.derekweaver.com/motorcycle-tire-changers/

No its not a coats, it is lacking one thing I wanted from the Coats RC220, the bead seating assist Air blast.... It can be really useful on tires that are wide and rims not so much.. But there are workarounds, bead seaters for one...and then if a guy was a welder, machinist and fabricator making a air blast ring and valve system to MOD this machine is likely a doable thing...lol

E.Marquez

First tire mounted..... Im as giddy as a school girl on prom night

E.Marquez

One other down side to the Not a Coats machine is the air filler valve.. on a coats it is foot operated leaving your hands free to work the tire in position to seat beads. All of the other less pricey machines I've seen are a pretty standard hand operated filler

Leaving on one hand available to position tire....
BUT, that's not really an issue as a $32 foot valve , some fittings and if you want to get fancy a mounted pressure gauge gets you all set up...https://www.mcmaster.com/9781k12 https://www.mcmaster.com/3846k311
Itll cost me an hour and $100 to do all that.... the coats machine was $7k new, and unobtanium used so im still a "few" dollars ahead

NHSH

Love the RS, great tires!

smokinjoe73

Aw man awesome!
I used to use 2x4s, then tire irons, then me & the wife drove to the next state to pick up a harbor freight changer (when the motorcycle part was out of production).
But man this is like we all dream of when doing this job.
How are you gonna get enough tires to change? Ad in the paper? Internet?
That is a major tool purchase. Congrats.

VTR1000F

Isn't two tires enough?

E.Marquez

I have 7 bikes in our fleet between wife and I.
Right now I have 5 customer bikes in the garage, and commonly have 3-5 at all times in progress.
I manage our trainer bike fleet which is 87 bikes today, of those 87 spread over 5 sites, I service bikes at 3 of the 5 sites, of my two other mechanics, only one does tires

I have PLENTY of tires to do annually to make it worthwhile to have a machine.

If someone locally wants tires done Id likely not turn it down, but don't need to search out more