Making your own tyres
05-06-2003, 07:57 PM
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Making your own tyres
This is mainly for r/c cars, but I guess it could work for any r/c tire.
Tires cost crap loads, especially the good ones (foam) and they wear out relatively quickly.
For practising or just mucking around but with good grip, try making a tire out of some pipe insulation, there are different sorts, I usually go for the soft ones.
Now they normally won't fit on perfectly, so you may have to shave the inside so as to thin out the layer, or you could make a rim moulding that putty that hardens into your own rim.
They do work, and are even better than proper racing tyres under some conditions, but they tend to tear a lot quicker unless they are cut very accurately. Also, the softer compounds (I'm talking ones that are really squidgy) wear out after a tanks worth of nitro on roughish parking lot concrete (the cement ones).
Still, 4 quid for 2 meters means that each tire costs about 10p!!!
Still, it's best to use real foam racing tires for a race, but you never know
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Tires cost crap loads, especially the good ones (foam) and they wear out relatively quickly.
For practising or just mucking around but with good grip, try making a tire out of some pipe insulation, there are different sorts, I usually go for the soft ones.
Now they normally won't fit on perfectly, so you may have to shave the inside so as to thin out the layer, or you could make a rim moulding that putty that hardens into your own rim.
They do work, and are even better than proper racing tyres under some conditions, but they tend to tear a lot quicker unless they are cut very accurately. Also, the softer compounds (I'm talking ones that are really squidgy) wear out after a tanks worth of nitro on roughish parking lot concrete (the cement ones).
Still, 4 quid for 2 meters means that each tire costs about 10p!!!
Still, it's best to use real foam racing tires for a race, but you never know
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05-06-2003, 10:04 PM
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Don't know if they're available in your neck of the woods But a friend of mine and I used to make them from practice hockey pucks glued side by side to make wide slicks. Denser foam than pipe insulation. These were .40 sized alky burners. Stuck them in a drill and turned them down to size with course sandpaper.
05-07-2003, 02:07 PM
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I'm sure there is something analogous somewhere in B&Q (hardware store), that place is massive .
The thing is, the denser the foam, the worse the traction, the really soft foam we use at the moment reduced a 50mph rwd nitro that would spin for a couple secs, on rough ground, to absolutely no wheelspin at all!
.The thing is, the denser the foam, the worse the traction, the really soft foam we use at the moment reduced a 50mph rwd nitro that would spin for a couple secs, on rough ground, to absolutely no wheelspin at all!
