For some reason, after years of using a milk crate, I finally realized my Workmate might make a good tire changing stand!
I have a vintage Workmate 79-001 Type 2 (WM625) with replaced jaws.
I bought a 12" long piece of 1/2" stainless steel round bar, and I filed a small V in one side of the jaws:
Poof! Instant tire changing stand!
Getting ready to mount a tire:
Success: the mounted tire. The stand worked great!
Addendum...
I realized my wheel was scrapping the workmate's wood surface. Not such a
big deal, but it's nice to be able to easily rotate the wheel and i
wouldn't want to scrape up some of the fancier wheels. I've seen some
wheel changers have a big plastic / nylon disks... so I took a jigsaw
and drill to one of our old cutting boards:
Perfect!
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