Tire tread grooving

cthomas

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I own a Mini-Ductor and was wondering if anyone a tried to groove a tire with it? If so did you buy knives? Is it possible?

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A member here let me borrow his Van Alstine V100 tire groover and I can't imagine that a significantly better tool exists. I remember watching a YouTube video from GoodWorksTractors in which Courtney grooved tires and he made it look a lot harder and way more work than I experienced.

I don't know how the knives look for that Venom HP, but it doesn't look like it'd be easy to use, and it might not work that well.

 

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My tires where cold when I did them, I'm sure that didn't help.
I don't have any point of reference since I've only ever used one tool to groove tires, but it's cold here too, and was cold when I grooved the R4 tires on the MX, but it was still surprisingly easy.

Many years ago in my past life as a diver/welder we had a job to replace massive tires on a concrete dock for ships to tie up against. I had to cut 5" or so round holes in numerous massive tires from quarry sized machinery. The holes were for chains to pass through. I remember using a hole saw and lots of cutting oil for many days and it was brutal.