Mounting/dismounting tires yourself

Discount Tire (and many tire places,) will fix flats for free. Even if they don’t find an issue, I would gladly pay a couple bucks for new valve stems rather than $45 for a home tire machine that will hardly ever get used.

I’m all for learning a new task or just playing around to see if I can do something, but tire busting is not something I am at all interested in, lol