From: Stephen & Jeanne Keith (cckw@comcast.net)
Date: Tue Jan 20 2004 - 13:44:01 PST
Having recently dismounted a couple CMP wheel/tires on my Bear
truck tire machine, I will attest that they were the most difficult tires
I have ever broken down and I had the professional machine! I
cannot imagine trying to do these w/o a machine....
The split (or non-split stretch rims) command respect, but if you
are careful and know what you are doing, you will be fine. I liken
it to electricity: Many people believe all kinds of incorrect things
about electricity and the related dangers.
Steve AKA Dr Deuce
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] M35 tire ?
> At 4:02 PM -0500 1/20/04, Mark Gibson wrote:
> >
> >Morale to the story: These are dangerous rims to be dealing with. They
> >can and have injured and even killed people in the past. My advice is to
> >get a tire cage or even better, get safer rims.
>
> Why did/does the US Army use these type of rims when the WWII style
> of British Combat rims have been a mature design? Specifically the
> type where you have two sets of bolts. The inner to get the
> tire(tyre?)/rim off the hub and an outer set of bolts for splitting
> the rim apart once the air is out of the tire/tyre.
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