Trust me when I said NO TOOL SHOULD TOUCH THE RIM ! .

I used to have a 1940's tire machine in my VW shop that was like that, all it did was hold the rim and break the beads from the rim then I had to use a 5' long bar and walk 'round the machine as it levered the tire over the edge of the wheel, not fun, hard work in Summer when it was over 100* F inside the shop all day, every day .

Tire machines mde after 1995 or so don't ever touch the rim's edge .

In the early 1970's I worked for a Motocycle shop and they let me set up an empty 35 gallon grease drum with some old carpet on the open edge so as to not scratch the spokes , then I used two 12" flat bars to leaver the tires on and off, I don't quite hate busting tires but I don't like it much either, why I hunted down a guy who's been doing _all_ my tires for twenty years now and never scratched a rim yet .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better