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re: This pretty sums up what is wrong kids these days
Posted on 8/4/21 at 12:52 pm to McCaigBro69
Posted on 8/4/21 at 12:52 pm to McCaigBro69
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When we take our fleet to get tires patched the baws at the place always do this off of the rim. They know it’s either a patch or a replacement so it’s coming off no matter what.
They show whomever is there where the leak is too. Just because it isn’t packed full of air doesn’t mean a light hole won’t show air escaping. They do not deflate the entire tire and always still has air escaping once taken off of the rim.
I can't believe that no one here has corrected this stupidity. It is obvious that you have never done any type of tire work or maybe you need to pay better attention when one of the fleet vehicles is sent for tire repair.
First off to find a leak in a tire it must be under pressure unless there is an obvious hole or cut in the tire. Once you take a tire off the rim, the air pressure inside the tire is the exact same as the surrounding air so the air will not move from an area of higher pressure (inside of tire)to an area of lower pressure (open atmosphere)
If no pressure difference to make the air move there is no way to find a leak except visually (big hole or cut)
using soap, or sound, or a water barrel is usually required to find the leak, then the tire is taken off the rim to be patched or plugged or both. Then it is put back on the rim, inflated to the proper air pressure, and checked for leaks again.
As far as the kid in the pic is concerned, I sure am glad everyone didn't have a damn camera on them 24/7 so they could post all of the stupid shite I did on the job before I had a good bit of experience and even then I have done some bone headed things LOL
This post was edited on 8/4/21 at 12:56 pm
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Posted on 8/4/21 at 12:54 pm to tgrbaitn08
Is this common knowledge? I can air up and change tires, but I've never checked a leak on my own.
Posted on 8/4/21 at 12:54 pm to LSU2001
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I can't believe that no one here has corrected this stupidity. It is obvious that you have never done any type of tire work
Only on the OT is this a flex.
Posted on 8/4/21 at 12:57 pm to PoppaD
Sounds like a tired trope at this point…get it? I’m on a roll.
Posted on 8/4/21 at 12:58 pm to kingbob
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Then, stop by the tool shed and grab me a left-handed pipe wrench.
Oh btw, don't forget the blinker fluid and the red and white striped paint.
These are classic harmless jokes played on the new guys all the time. The kid is learning many lessons from this and the most important one is to think about what you are doing instead of just doing whatever you are told. Thinkers become independent better workers rather than remaining dependent on someone else for every direction.
Posted on 8/4/21 at 1:00 pm to kingbob
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Go down to the United Rentals and pick up a Skyhook. Then, stop by the tool shed and grab me a left-handed pipe wrench.
We tell new deck hands to go on the stern and get a wheel wash sample..they will literally grab a bucket, tie a rope to it and throw it in the water and fill it with the wheel wash
Posted on 8/4/21 at 1:01 pm to McCaigBro69
Pretty much everybody under 40 is a frickin idiot.
Posted on 8/4/21 at 1:02 pm to LegendInMyMind
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actually helps considerably, particularly when plugging a tire, and is an old trick thar has been passed down for forever.
Also used in just about every plant ever made to leak test
Posted on 8/4/21 at 1:03 pm to tgrbaitn08
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We tell new deck hands to go on the stern and get a wheel wash sample..they will literally grab a bucket, tie a rope to it and throw it in the water and fill it with the wheel wash
Would tell the FNGs to go get a box of grid squares or a can of squelch. Favorite had to be to give them a hammer and a piece of chalk and tell them to go find the soft spots on a Bradley and mark them with an X.
Posted on 8/4/21 at 1:04 pm to sofar
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Boomers are intolerable. A young man stays at home you have something to say, the kid is fixing a tire at his job and you still have something to say.
I have to admit I usually fall in the idiotic youth camp but truthfully most of the shite Boomers make fun of them for not knowing is shite they will never need to know. "That damn boy didn't even rewind the home movies before returning to me..." kinda shite...
Posted on 8/4/21 at 1:05 pm to Jebadeb
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Is this common knowledge? I can air up and change tires, but I've never checked a leak on my own.
I don't know how common it is, but I learned it when I was probably 10-11 or so when I ran over a screw with the lawnmower. My Pops taught me that trick, even though it wasn't really needed for the obvious screw. I've used it many times when plugging a tire, or trying to find a small leak like earlier this year when I picked up a construction staple in a lawnmower tire. Had I not used the soapy water trick, I wouldn't have noticed that somehow that one staple put three tiny holes in the tire. Two were close enough for one plug to solve, the other needed its own plug.
On a related note, if you don't know how to plug a tire, you should at least watch a video and learn how. You never know when it could save your butt.
Posted on 8/4/21 at 1:08 pm to tgrbaitn08
To be fair sometimes you spray soapy water on it before mounting the tire to help it slide onto the rim and get a good seal
Posted on 8/4/21 at 1:09 pm to sabanisarustedspoke
Everyone that has ever had a job has had some sort of prank played on them as the new guy.....this is not a new phenom......the problem is the snowflakes the past 20 years dont know how to take a joke.
Posted on 8/4/21 at 1:11 pm to sabanisarustedspoke
Yeah nothing wrong with some harmless pranks on the new guy. No reason to say something's wrong with the kid or call him useless though. The same boomers shitting on the kid probably can't figure out how to post a pic on this forum to save their life
Posted on 8/4/21 at 1:12 pm to McCaigBro69
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Checking where the leak is when patching a tire at work is wrong?
Well there’s no rim on the tire so there’s no air pressure to find said leak. Which is the point of the OP but I’m betting he is just cleaning it of dirt to prepare it to remount so it gets a good deal on the rim.
So in other words OP made himself look stupid by not knowing how a tire is mounted
Posted on 8/4/21 at 1:12 pm to tgrbaitn08
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Everyone that has ever had a job has had some sort of prank played on them as the new guy.....this is not a new phenom......the problem is the snowflakes the past 20 years dont know how to take a joke.
An old guy I worked with once overflowed a several thousand gallon tank with water. He left the fill valve on and went on break. He came back to a third floor flood. We sent one of the new kids working a summer job program to find a tank stretcher to stretch the tank so it would hold more.
That was the only fun part about that night. The rest of it sucked because we spent hours squeeging and mopping.
Posted on 8/4/21 at 1:17 pm to Jwils
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PLEASE tell us how air is still escaping once the tire is removed from the rim...
Man, y’all are dense.
You spray the tire. Because it’s off the rim the holes in the side are now BIGGER, so the air escapes out of them instead of the little hole. The pressure differential will suck the soapy water through the little hole and you’ll be able to see the bubbles on the inside of the tire.
It’s science. You boomers think there’s only one way to skin a hooker. Sheesh
Posted on 8/4/21 at 1:21 pm to tgrbaitn08
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Could have been one of his coworkers playing a joke on him
Someone should tell him to fix a flat he needs a left handed crescent wrench, sky hook, and a can of A.I.R from the tool room
Posted on 8/4/21 at 1:22 pm to kingbob
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Go down to the United Rentals and pick up a Skyhook. Then, stop by the tool shed and grab me a left-handed pipe wrench.
Dammit you beat me to it
Posted on 8/4/21 at 1:23 pm to kingbob
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Go down to the United Rentals and pick up a Skyhook. Then, stop by the tool shed and grab me a left-handed pipe wrench.
Don’t forget the beam stretcher.
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