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Dansmith wrote:Billmayo and Sazerac81, my brother who also has a ss bandsaw needs to replace his tires. How difficult is it to remove the old tires to use the Blue Max tires you guys reference?

PITA

But it will be the last time.

JPG wrote:

Dansmith wrote:Billmayo and Sazerac81, my brother who also has a ss bandsaw needs to replace his tires. How difficult is it to remove the old tires to use the Blue Max tires you guys reference?

PITA

But it will be the last time.

Ditto!

Easiest way to do by yourself is to remove each wheel and put it in a non-marring vice. Then make a cut with a razor blade knife across the tire. Grap a long nose plier and start peeling the rubber wheel off. You can clean the glue off using brass wheel on a handheld drill or use a larger flathead screwdriver to remove (not too violently) any glue that sits above the little grooves within the wheel groove. You shouldn't have much if the tire was glued appropriately to begin with...

But like JPG stated, once this is done, the newer tire is very easy to pop onto the wheel itself once it has been sitting in some very hot water for a bit. No glue, and less muss and fuss to get tires off in the future.

Cheers,
John

Sazerac81 wrote:

JPG wrote:

Dansmith wrote:Billmayo and Sazerac81, my brother who also has a ss bandsaw needs to replace his tires. How difficult is it to remove the old tires to use the Blue Max tires you guys reference?

PITA

But it will be the last time.

Ditto!

Easiest way to do by yourself is to remove each wheel and put it in a non-marring vice. Then make a cut with a razor blade knife across the tire. Grap a long nose plier and start peeling the rubber wheel off. You can clean the glue off using brass wheel on a handheld drill or use a larger flathead screwdriver to remove (not too violently) any glue that sits above the little grooves within the wheel groove. You shouldn't have much if the tire was glued appropriately to begin with...

But like JPG stated, once this is done, the newer tire is very easy to pop onto the wheel itself once it has been sitting in some very hot water for a bit. No glue, and less muss and fuss to get tires off in the future.

Cheers,
John

He knows this because???

Thank Sazerac81 and JPG for the reponses.

JPG was misquoted. He said once done, it will not be repeated.(that is because is IS a PITA and an intelligent creature will indeed not do it again ).

Yes he was assuming most here are intelligent.

Old tires are pretty easy removing. Most of the work seems to be cleaning the wheel if he had rubber tires on before becaust they stick to the wheel. I used my Moxon vise to keep them secure and added padding to the jaws.
I now have one rubber tire installed and am waiting for the second one to be shipped.

putttn wrote:Old tires are pretty easy removing. Most of the work seems to be cleaning the wheel if he had rubber tires on before becaust they stick to the wheel. I used my Moxon vise to keep them secure and added padding to the jaws.
I now have one rubber tire installed and am waiting for the second one to be shipped.

Did you glue it on?

JPG wrote:

putttn wrote:Old tires are pretty easy removing. Most of the work seems to be cleaning the wheel if he had rubber tires on before becaust they stick to the wheel. I used my Moxon vise to keep them secure and added padding to the jaws.
I now have one rubber tire installed and am waiting for the second one to be shipped.

Did you glue it on?

If you didn't, you've got to glue the rubber tires on.