Re: [VAL] '54 Liner

[Glyn Judson <glynjudson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    Bill and all,

    The danger is as you say, in the reassembly.  They are indeed safest
(for the guy with the air hose) if reinflated within a cage.  The smaller
split ring part has the potential of taking a hand or arm off if it were to
dislodge and fly across the shop and you happened to be in the target
trajectory.  It's a big steel ring and not something to be dealt with
without a cage.  

    Some of us remember the cages.  They were usually a series of inverted
U's, maybe 3"-4" diameter pipe (concrete filled?), buried into the concrete
shop floor, standing 4 feet or so tall and 4 feet long, numbering six or
eight U's.  The reassembled tire and rim is rolled in an open end just wide
enough for a tire and the air hose applied to the valve stem by reaching in
between one of the inverted U's.  That way if the ring were to let loose, it
would travel no more than a couple of inches before hitting the pipes,
sparing loss of limb, head or other soft tissue body part.  Ouch!!

    Finally, something I can contribute to this list!!!

    Glyn Judson
    1969 Caravel #508
    Santa Monica CA