Mike Melton trains a new hire on operating a tire-building machine, emphasizing gentle pressure when seating the disc bearing to avoid breakage. He walks through rolling the disc into place, spraying beads bottom-then-top while using the pedal to spin the wheel, and stresses coordinating with the crew chief for control.
Too much pressure, brother. You gotta let it do its thing. You'll break that disc. You keep doing it like that, you can't do that. What you want to do, get it up under there, get it up in there. So we're going to roll it. So we'll put a little pressure on it, let it do its thing, roll it. You don't want to force, you'll break these discs. All it is is a bearing in there. It ain't like those fucking shovels on the other, you know what I mean? Now we'll go down a little bit more. See, just a little bit more until, you know what I'm saying? You don't keep pressing down because you'll break that disc. All right, so now what you're gonna do is spray the bottom bead and the top bead, and you can take your pedal and spin it around. Bottom bead, then the top bead. You figured or did you get with the crew chief? Figured. All right, never figure. Always get with him. Trust me, if you lose control, you fucking lose control. Hey, where's the other one for here? Should be 3 for each bay.
