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Impact Wrench-Driven Bead Breaker
“Our new impact bead breaker works off any impact gun or pneumatic air ratchet. It can be used on a wide variety of tire and wheel combinations and will easily break the hardest bead,” says Felicity Ochoa, Ochoa Roadrunner Products, Alamogordo, New Mexico.
  All that’s needed to operate the new-style bead breaker is a 1/2-in. drive impact wrench. The unit comes with upper and threaded lower sockets. The lower socket is used to clamp onto the bead and draw the tool into the tire. A handle on back of the tool is used to apply leverage as you draw the tire in. Once you get the tire straight up and down, you use the upper socket to push the bead down off the wheel rim.
  “It works fast and is simple to operate. There’s no need for a cumbersome foot-operated hydraulic pump or anything else,” says Ochoa. “It locks into the wheel and draws it in, then uses a separate action to push the bead down so it can’t slip or pop out. It can be used on anything from small ATV tires to large tractor tires.”
  The impact bead breaker sells for $509 plus S&H.
  The company also sells several impact wrench-driven tire demounting tools.
  Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Ochoa Roadrunner Products, 505 24th St., Alamogordo, New Mexico 88310 (ph 866 435-2354; info@pneu-tek-unlimited.com; www. pneu-tek-unlimited.com).



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2012 - Volume #36, Issue #2