Make your own bead seater..

By Eric on October 10, 2010 in Tech Tips

	With the diverse range of wheels and tires in golf maintenance it’s difficult to get the bead to seat.. This is a low dough way to make a bead seater. Take your air tank.. Ours was 10 years old. Go to your local home improvement store or plumber supply and get a 12″ piece of 1.5 inch galvanized pipe, threaded both ends, and a 1.5 inch ball valve. Outline a circle on the tank, a little below center on one side of the tank. I didn’t have a hole saw handy so I drilled multiple small holes.
	Take your galvanized pipe, cut of 3 inches. That you will weld into the opening you just made. Thread your ball valve onto it. With the leftover piece, partially flatten the unthreaded end so it’s a bit flatter. Thread that into the other end of the ball valve. That’s it, now you just need to practice a bit. Biggest part its learning how to prop up the tire to get the air into it quick. Here’s a little video on it..

	Viola!!!

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Barry S October 14, 2010 at 11:46 pm #

Thats a pretty nice tool Eric.
I Like.

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Eric October 15, 2010 at 4:30 am #

Thanks Barry. I’ve seen these advertised for $300+. I’ve been finding that getting some of the new turf wheel/tire combinations to seat is almost impossible. We only need to use this a few times a year. I thought it might be a bit cumbersome to use with the addition but it isn’t.

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Barry S October 15, 2010 at 5:55 am #

I’m guessing it’s lighter than it looks or else you are just making it look easy!
I have real trouble with 3250 tires and something like this would make life a lot easier.

P.S. Love the site. Keep up the good work.

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