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Well, as some of you may remember... I decided to buy a No-Mar tire changer at the NYC motorcycle show last weekend. I bought the Jr Pro package, and it arrived this morning.
Took about an hour to put it together, and that was no problem... but now I've discovered something that, I'm kinda embarrassed to admit, that I really didn't think about before: floor mounting options.
The thing comes with a floor mount kit (large bolts and cement lag gaskets)... but I live in a rented apartment, and I don't think they'd think too kindly of me drilling holes in the cement floor of my garage.
Plus, as space in my garage is at a premium... I knew I didn't want it to be permanently mounted to any one place in the floor anyway.
The thing I really didn't think about was... the offset center of gravity this thing has. That tall post with all of the attachments hanging off of it is HEAVY... and as such, makes the thing want to tip over as it sits on the floor. I didnt notice this at the show because... it was, of course, mounted to the floor! Duh!
So... all of that to ask this:
For those of you who have these things... did you permanently mount it to your floor, or did you mount it to some other type of movable/portable base?
Ideally, that's what I'd like to do. Find or fabricate some type of heavy portable base that's going to be stable enough to remain somewhat fixed when changing tires, yet also be able to be moved out of the way into a corner for the 90% of the time it's not in use.
Any ideas folks? :shrug:
Thanks!

Took about an hour to put it together, and that was no problem... but now I've discovered something that, I'm kinda embarrassed to admit, that I really didn't think about before: floor mounting options.
The thing comes with a floor mount kit (large bolts and cement lag gaskets)... but I live in a rented apartment, and I don't think they'd think too kindly of me drilling holes in the cement floor of my garage.
The thing I really didn't think about was... the offset center of gravity this thing has. That tall post with all of the attachments hanging off of it is HEAVY... and as such, makes the thing want to tip over as it sits on the floor. I didnt notice this at the show because... it was, of course, mounted to the floor! Duh!
So... all of that to ask this:
For those of you who have these things... did you permanently mount it to your floor, or did you mount it to some other type of movable/portable base?
Ideally, that's what I'd like to do. Find or fabricate some type of heavy portable base that's going to be stable enough to remain somewhat fixed when changing tires, yet also be able to be moved out of the way into a corner for the 90% of the time it's not in use.
Any ideas folks? :shrug:
Thanks!