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04-21-2010 | 03:41 PM
I used to mount ALL of my own tires for 1/12 and 1/10 scale "back in the day"!!
The easiest and BEST way ---get a good 3m contact adhesive-- small pint can with plenty of those cheap steel handled throwaway brushes--"Harbor Freight" will have them--
You can use acetone---but lacquer thinner is cheaper and will work just as well--it's flash is slower too so it gives you better working time.
Coat the wheel and the inside of the tires well with the cement--you can do several sets because once you dunk BOTH into a lacquer thinner "bath"--it will re-activate the glue--- then slide the tire on over the wheel using your Kimbrough tire mounting tools. Slide the tire around a little bit to get a good coating of cement all the way out to the edges-- you will have enough tire to trim down to the wheel on both the inside and outside -- just clean the glue off the outside of the donuts-- let them dry for a day before you try to true them.
Once they are trued--- for 1/12 scale especially---then CA down the very edges of the tires to the wheels --it will stop any "rollover" that the tire may have--and give you better more consistant bite!!
FYI
T
The easiest and BEST way ---get a good 3m contact adhesive-- small pint can with plenty of those cheap steel handled throwaway brushes--"Harbor Freight" will have them--
You can use acetone---but lacquer thinner is cheaper and will work just as well--it's flash is slower too so it gives you better working time.
Coat the wheel and the inside of the tires well with the cement--you can do several sets because once you dunk BOTH into a lacquer thinner "bath"--it will re-activate the glue--- then slide the tire on over the wheel using your Kimbrough tire mounting tools. Slide the tire around a little bit to get a good coating of cement all the way out to the edges-- you will have enough tire to trim down to the wheel on both the inside and outside -- just clean the glue off the outside of the donuts-- let them dry for a day before you try to true them.
Once they are trued--- for 1/12 scale especially---then CA down the very edges of the tires to the wheels --it will stop any "rollover" that the tire may have--and give you better more consistant bite!!
FYI
T
Back then I used to buy AJs tire cement. Nowadays, what can I use instead, since AJs is long gone.
04-21-2010 | 03:47 PM
04-21-2010 | 07:24 PM
04-21-2010 | 07:36 PM
Just use "Contact Cement"--- 3m makes a good one---but you want a nice petroleum based product that works well with rubber and the lacquer thinner will too!! It's not overly complicated--- any good hardware store will have it!!
FYI
Tim
FYI
Tim
04-21-2010 | 08:54 PM
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04-23-2010 | 04:24 PM
04-23-2010 | 06:35 PM
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04-23-2010 | 07:24 PM
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You need to supply more information you want reasonable estimate for a rollout.
Are you driving on a pavement or carpet track?
How big is the track and what is the length of the longest straightaway?
It the track technical or flowing?
What ESC are you using?
If you cannot supply this information, then the answer is 42.
Are you driving on a pavement or carpet track?
How big is the track and what is the length of the longest straightaway?
It the track technical or flowing?
What ESC are you using?
If you cannot supply this information, then the answer is 42.
04-24-2010 | 07:21 PM
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In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (published in 1979), the characters visit the legendary
planet Magrathea, home to the now-collapsed planet-building industry, and meet Slartibartfast,
a planetary coastline designer who was responsible for the fjords of Norway. Through archival
recordings, he relates the story of a race of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings who built a
computer named Deep Thought to calculate the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the
Universe, and Everything. When the answer was revealed to be 42, Deep Thought had predicted
that another computer, more powerful than itself would be made and designed by it to calculate
the question for the answer. (Later on, referencing this, Adams would create the 42 Puzzle, a
puzzle which could be approached in multiple ways, all yielding the answer 42.)
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04-24-2010 | 07:44 PM
So thanks for letting me know that 42 is a joke. hahahahahaha
Anyway, So no one in this Galaxy can honestly even give me a approx gear ratio at all?????
Anyway, So no one in this Galaxy can honestly even give me a approx gear ratio at all?????
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04-24-2010 | 07:47 PM
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