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Has anyone had any experience of this particular spinner removal tool?

It seems amazingly easy to use with a ratchet set or power gun

https://shop.limitfabrications.co.uk/?product=spinner-tool

regards

80 quid for that?

I manage perfectly well using a lead mallet!!

Arwyn

80 quid indeed ! Or make a wooden spinner saver from laminated wood ? I've used one for years and they work perfectly providing you don't over tighten the spinners in the first place. Because they self tighten, they only need a few 'firm' taps with the wheels off the ground when refitting.
Cheers, John.

This is my home made wooden spinner tool, but I quite like that ratchet tool

WOW! That’s a whopper!

I have only had 3 punctures to-date in my entire motoring life (touching wood as I type) all happened on motorways in the wet , all the punctures on the drivers side, leaving me trying to change a tyre with passing lorries in the first lane within feet almost bowling me over as they pass. Not an experience I would recommend. So knowing my luck to-date, I'm looking for something that I can carry in the car, is safe to operate and keep me out of harms way as quickly as possible whilst changing the tyre and the thought of carrying a large homemade spinner tool or trying to hammer a spinner in say the wet whilst avoiding traffic passing slightly fills me with dread.

The home made wood spinners and/or a hammer are absolutely fine using them in the safe confines of one's garage for routine maintenance, but unfortunately that has not been my experience of where I get punctures. Fortunately I've just put new tyres on the car, it still had its originals whilst still legal were starting to perish, the tyre fitter had some difficulty getting the wheels off as the spinners were on really tight and broke lots of wood in the process, I would never have succeeded getting the wheels off if I had a puncture on those original tyres. which has caused me to reflect on finding the best value and easy use spinner tool for the job.

All the best

Craig Jezz, nice work!

I just ordered my spinners and think about how to open. I chose this option (for a few GBP/EURs):

http://shop.mwsint.com/product_details.asp?id=181

And clear the THOR no.2 copper and hide.

About the 80GBP specialtool, you need a little force to open the spinner. I think a ratchet would be a little overstressed and gets a little bit
„Zahnausfall“ ;-)

René

I do see that as another option, I would use an extendable fixed bar socket tool rather than a racket head so you have a better fulcrum/lever and not reliant on the ratchet mechanism to be upto the job.


regards

John

Did you not think to drive the car on the flat to somewhere where the tyre could be changed safely? Not much sense in putting yourself at risk to save a puncture tyre? Had a puncture once on the motorway and drove it about half mile until I came to one those hardstandings where the scuffers park up. Much to the annoyance of the PC Plod who happened by just as I was getting the car on the jack.

Also there seems to a general misunderstanding as to how tight the spinner needs to be. They don't need to be done up so tight you need to be Charles Atlas to get the things off! With a lead hammer, you can judge when the spinner is tight enough when the tone changes


Kind regards

Arwyn

If you are in the 3rd lane in heavy traffic and get a puncture you can travel quite some distance before you can negotiate safely to the hard shoulder and on one occasion I drove the car till on the tyre almost came off the rim completely on the hard shoulder buggering up my wheel arch and paintwork. but no layby's/ junctions near by, so had to get the car as far across to the left as possible on the embankment without compromising my ability to lift the car safely with a jack. . About 20 years ago a Harley biker friend of mine was killed whilst changing someone's tyre on the motorway, he was a professional tyre fitter and the foreign lorry crashed into both his van and the car whilst he was working on it, so I am very alive to the inherent dangers. Today, there are massive sections of the motorway with no hard shoulder for miles,......which makes the situation far worse.

I appreciate there is a tonal change when the spinner is tight enough, not something you might detect with thundering lorry's going past. Its interesting to see how TM focus on what part of the scenario of wheel changes...........I appreciate your comments

kind regards