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title: Get this makes tire changing easier! Stops damage to tires and tubes!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/get-this-tire-iron-army-1944/
description: 'Army conservation sheet: a large tire iron beside the headline, over nine numbered drawn panels of the tool freeing, prying and fitting tires and rims.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Get this makes tire changing easier! Stops damage to tires and tubes!, 1944 US poster: Army conservation sheet](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/get-this-tire-iron-army-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/get-this-tire-iron-army-1944.jpg)

# Get this makes tire changing easier! Stops damage to tires and tubes!

Army conservation sheet: a large tire iron beside the headline, over nine numbered drawn panels of the tool freeing, prying and fitting tires and rims. It states only the tool's benefits, a card-stacking pattern; the technique is mild.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
get this
TIME IS WASTED AND TIRES ARE DAMAGED BY UNITS THAT DO NOT HAVE THIS SAFER, BETTER TIRE IRON
Requisition now if you do not have IRON, Tire, Military Type, Federal Stock No. 41-I-774, which is authorized (2 per tool set) by SNL G-27 and SNL G-347
[emblem:] U·S·ARMY SAVE CONSERVATION PROGRAM
[signature:] cholfonte
MAKES TIRE CHANGING EASIER!
1. To free casing from rim—force the tire iron between the rim and bead with a medium-weight hammer.
2. Press sideways on the tire iron to loosen the bead. Do this at several places around the tire.
3. Pry straight down to free casing from rim. Never use a sledge hammer on the sidewalls of a tire.
4. The tire iron is designed for many special uses. Here it is used to remove the split lock ring.
5. Continuous locking rings are removed in a jiffy. Your job is made a lot easier with this tire iron.
6. Removing the casing bead from a rim is easy. The tire iron eliminates damage to tires and tubes.
7. To remove outer part of divided rims—drive hooked end of tire iron under rim flange and pry up.
8. When prying with the tire iron, place the hands as shown. The tire iron is a safer tool to use.
9. Installing a divided rim flange—The tire iron can do all tire changing jobs quickly, easily, safely.
STOPS DAMAGE TO TIRES AND TUBES!
[imprint:] ARMY CONSERVATION PROJECT No. 128-O-22
[imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944-O-617049
[imprint:] C (1) Except Overseas "X"
```

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