Originally Posted by timmig

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