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FWIW, the OP said nothing about remounting a tire on the said rim; only the removal. I'm presuming it's because you can't scrap it without the tire being removed first.
FWIW, the OP said nothing about remounting a tire on the said rim; only the removal. I'm presuming it's because you can't scrap it without the tire being removed first.
"IF" the OP wants to scrap the wheel the it's time to haul out the fire wrench and cut the damn thing off.
Just don't pressurize this type of wheel unless you have a death wish.
FWIW, the OP said nothing about remounting a tire on the said rim; only the removal. I'm presuming it's because you can't scrap it without the tire being removed first.
But you also don't know if he plans to reverse the procedure and remount a new tire either. Either way, it's best left up to an experienced tire buster. There's no way I'm gonna tell him how to do it.
And as I said earlier, I watched a man take his last breath because of a split rim mishap. It wasn't a pretty sight.
Built a bunch of split rim wheels up, for our planes. Taking it apart is cake, just depressurize completely, go ahead and remove the shrader valve and after making sure there is no pressure in the tire, make sure there is no pressure and take the hardware off. Putting it back together is cake too.
Pressurizing it and trying to get a bead can be dangerous though, of course it's done in a cage. Usually we go 20% over the pressure we want and leave it in the cage for an hour. Then drop the pressure to where we want it and leave it in a different holder for 12 hours.
The dangerous part comes from people who are inattentive when pressurizing it......because you overpressure this, it can go really bad. Seen pics of kids pretty much snapped in half by a split rim coming apart on them. And then of course in a fire or hot brakes....never approach these wheels abeam or anywhere close to that.
many years ago i worked for the city of tucson, and part of my job took me around to the tire and lube shop. at the time nearly all the heavy equipment, and all trucks above 2 1/2 ton rating had split rims on them. the tire shop had a few cages for inflating tires mounted on split rims, and EVERYONE of those cages were bent from split rims coming apart. i happened to be there when a split rim did in fact come apart during inflation, and if it were not for the cage the tire person and i would have been severely injured and we were standing about 20ft away from the cage. my advice is to take the rim and tire to a pro and pay the money to have them deal with the situation. even better advice would be to get the later one piece wheels and replace the split rims, and thaqt way you never have to worry about one coming apart again.
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