CAUTION.....CAUTION...... read last email...... we have found a way to exceed the tool design!!!! NEW PICTURES OF DAMAGE ADDED
News from the Hammond barn.
We got the ESCO tire bead breaker tool and put it to the test. Little did we know that the rim we selected was going to be a bit***.
The tool was purchased off Ebay at $139 US converted to $201 Canadian Pesos plus $26 dollars PST GST compliment of the Canada Custom.
Tool is weld made....simple construction. Yo will noticed that the claw that losks on to the inner face of the rim has been beefed up...... the Ebay picture did not have that improvement.
Wanting to know how it was made and under the pretext of seeingeif the inner thread was greased we took it apart. Simply remove the lock nut and set screw. The end of the set screw fits into a key way cut into the foot bar and keeps the foot from turning....... a problem that was resolved in there HD $600 model which uses a square tube.
Yes there was some lubricant.... but knowing the heavy load that we would be submitting the tool to we recoated with Never Seize grease and put it together again.
PS.... having a hard time getting the pictures to insert where I want....
Next will move to using the tool.