More uses for Scrap, Sorry, ‘recycled materials’.

[ranger 1,758]

When I changed the front tyres on my C121 to chevrons, I decided to make myself a tyre / tire changer. I bought a cheap ‘Duck Bill’ thingy from  the ‘bay’ for about £6.50p. (Cheap, incase it didn’t work). The upright is an ‘Acrow’ prop, used by builders, I’m using it upside down. The rest is made from anything I had ‘lying’ around, (read, ‘falling over’).

The tube inside the upright can move up and down to lock the wheel and prevent it from turning when mounting / demounting the tire. The nylon cone centralises the wheel as the tube is pulled down by turning the ‘nut’ at the base, this Compresses the spring, (coil over shock assister spring), the nut is turned by foot via the two long bolts. Kicking the nut the other way round when you’ve finished allows  the spring to push the inner pipe up thus releasing the wheel.

I made it to attach to the towbar on my truck, but it works okay freestanding, as long as the tires aren’t 8ply!

The ‘Duck Bill’ thingy, allegedly ‘Stainless Steel’, has started to rust, the chrome plating had flaked off, so I may try one of the nylon types available. I suppose Chinese chrome plating is cheaper than polishing the thing, and it probably isn’t a ‘rustless’ grade of ‘Stainless’ anyway.

Edited March 27, 2021 by ranger

[gwest_ca-(File Mod) 11,055]

Well done. Had never heard of an Acrow prop.

https://www.google.ca/search?source=univ&tbm=isch&q=Acrow+prop&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjUltvr4dDvAhUFac0KHWOqCjgQjJkEegQICBAB&biw=1680&bih=939

We call them jack posts.

 

Garry

[ranger 1,758]

14 minutes ago, gwest_ca said:

Well done. Had never heard of an Acrow prop.

https://www.google.ca/search?source=univ&tbm=isch&q=Acrow+prop&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjUltvr4dDvAhUFac0KHWOqCjgQjJkEegQICBAB&biw=1680&bih=939

We call them jack posts.

 

Garry

Thanks Gary.

I suppose they are the same thing, or similar, with slots at the threaded end, the top, and holes in the inner sliding part for a pin which goes through the slots and the inner piece and bears against the ‘Nut’? I picked up a couple of them at a sale for a couple of pounds, (£’s), they were missing the inner telescopic pieces, but were brand new. Original thoughts were to build a set of ‘tractor splitting stands’, on rails,  Fordson/Massey size, not Wheelhorse, and use these, cut down, for the ‘jack’ parts. 

Doug.

[elcamino/wheelhorse 9,326]

@ranger I really like your work. Why don't you travel across the pond and work on all my piles of scrap . My wife would love to see it gone.

[ranger 1,758]

16 minutes ago, elcamino/wheelhorse said:

@ranger I really like your work. Why don't you travel across the pond and work on all my piles of scrap . My wife would love to see it gone.

Thanks for the compliment. The problem would be, my wife would like to see all my ‘scrap’ gone as well. If I was able to leave the country, I’m sure it would all be gone when I got back! Even though it mostly gets used in making things to support maintenance of her horse paddocks!

Doug.