[AT] tires with tubes

[Gunnells, Bradley R]

It's both funny and sad at the same time. Funny what people will use for an excuse to not do something. Sad in that when you needed something you weren't able to get it. Growing up in a small town and working in the service station I became used to working with tubes. Later I did a stint of 2nd job part time work (boys need money for they're toys!) at a service station in town here and every time a tube type tire came in during the evening/weekend hours it was left for me to do.

I tried to show the part-timers I worked with some tricks so they could do them but they had no interest in learning. It was easier to roll them off to the side and tell the customer to come back after my shift. Dad has an old manual tire changer and the spoons so I still do most of my own tire repairs on both vehicles and implements. Besides the satisfaction of doing things myself I cringe at the cost to have a repair shop fix a tire. Guess I'm cheap too.  :-)

Brad

On Mar 22, 2011, at 9:02 PM, john hall wrote:

> I needed a couple 15 inch tubes for a hay wagon last Sat. After 10 phone calls it became quite evident that tires with tubes are quite rare these days. All the "real" tire shops were closed so I was stuck with major chainstores and service stations. I even tried Napa. The funny part was the "safety" reason the chain stores gave about not carrying and installing tubes.
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> John Hall
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