DK1
02-13-2017, 06:34 PM
Got a couple of questions. I'm debating buying a tire prep machine. I'm pretty much by myself so tire prep after work can pretty much take up all my time Monday-Wednesday and then put the car, tools, equipment, etc in the trailer on Thursday then race Friday Saturday, clean up on Sunday then repeat. So here's my questions:
1) What's everyone's thoughts on the machine from Keyser and the new machine I see out there from Love Tap Fab called Tire Demon. I can not find any reviews or youtube videos of these things in action on a late model. For $2000 loaded basically I'd kinda like to go off something other than Keyser's sales pitch at PRI
2) Why does every machine pretty much make you buy a needler. I've raced 10+ years and haven't even seen someone needle a tire. What am I missing?
3) At what point do you consider a tire junk (UMP LM tires mainly)? I'm not buy new tires every night guy. Is there a way to go off of durometer or Thread depth and know when its garbage? Yes I realize there's other factors that may be involved buy I'm wondering if there is a "yes its junk" way of knowing its actually junk.
So that being said. I don't want to make my own machine. I want to be able to get tires prep'd faster so I can do other things like work on the chassis and what not. Since I'm by myself I need Work smarter not harder if you know what I mean.
1) What's everyone's thoughts on the machine from Keyser and the new machine I see out there from Love Tap Fab called Tire Demon. I can not find any reviews or youtube videos of these things in action on a late model. For $2000 loaded basically I'd kinda like to go off something other than Keyser's sales pitch at PRI
2) Why does every machine pretty much make you buy a needler. I've raced 10+ years and haven't even seen someone needle a tire. What am I missing?
3) At what point do you consider a tire junk (UMP LM tires mainly)? I'm not buy new tires every night guy. Is there a way to go off of durometer or Thread depth and know when its garbage? Yes I realize there's other factors that may be involved buy I'm wondering if there is a "yes its junk" way of knowing its actually junk.
So that being said. I don't want to make my own machine. I want to be able to get tires prep'd faster so I can do other things like work on the chassis and what not. Since I'm by myself I need Work smarter not harder if you know what I mean.