Mike Melton shows a day at Speedy Tire in Lincolnville, NC, where they mount Bentley wheels and repair punctures with a bead-massage technique. Employee Chase attempts his first weld on a wheel and pulls off a surprisingly solid result.
All right, we're back at it again. This is Mike at Speedy Tire in Lincolnville, North Carolina. Let's see what we got going on today. For one, we got some Bentley, Bentley wheels and tires we mounted up. We put them on a set of Bridgestones. Now here we do a lot of mud terrain tires, RT tires, all-terrains, and of course mud terrains. Not only that, we do a lot of passenger car tires. We do about 300 tires a day. All right. So right here, he's using the Hunter Maverick machine. What this is, is a touchless machine. That way you're never going to mar the wheel up. And it's a center post right there. That way you're not having to clamp the wheel at all. All right, right here he's got a nail repair, so he's going to dig that nail out of there and we're going to repair that nail up for him. All right, so what he's doing now is massaging the bead. What he's doing is taking any kind of air that's trapped in between the flange of the wheel and the bead of the tire. That's going to help reduce that radial runout and turn the tire in, not like an oval, like it's an oval shape, right? It's going to turn it into more of a uniform shape. And this right here is Chase. You know, this guy right here, just, he just, he likes to get out of work more than he does working. All right, now this guy right here, I bought him a welder because he wants to try to weld and He's going to try on this wheel right here. All right, this right here is going to be his first welding job. Let's see how he does. Now I got to cover my eyes. Go ahead, do your thing. How's he going to do? How'd he do? You get a little stick weld in there? All right, now let's see the welding. Oh shit, there we go. Now we see the final product. This is first time welding. That ain't too bad. I know a lot of you guys in the comments are gonna say, oh man, what the hell is that right there?
