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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

rayzentz AT aim.com wrote:
> He used to make me do it, too, when I was about 11 or 12. He would 
> cut off the sidewall, and then give the tire to me. I would stand on
>  it, pressing down the "corner", and then slowly step wider, whle 
> pulling with my hands to help it turn. Took awhile, but I got 'em. 
> Did learn the reason for gloves, though... <g>
>
> Oh, I liked the radials better than standard tires. They flipped 
> easier. Less common at the time than they are now.
>
> Ray

I knew there was a trick to turning them, like 'folding' a bandsaw
blade, I came in and looked it up on the web, and I still couldn't do
it...(that was about two years ago)
I acquired most of my tires from the roof of my barn.  They may have
been there for 15 or twenty years for all I know..  There were over
twenty tires up there on the 25x40 roof.

B


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