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II EV II

II EV II

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Hello everyone, I am trying to find some aluminum rims for my FG Evo. Anyone know where one can buy some? I did a search here and none of the sites either have them or I did not receive a response after contacting the web stores (they were all old posts though). Ebay has been a crap shoot too.

Any suggestions would be awesome thanks
 
ya I emailed bigboys and they didn't respond to me and either did that place from the other thread.

Thanks man.
 
Are aluminum wheels for display purpose? They tend to be on the expensive side for bashing or even racing. I'd hate to damage one.
 
Heavier than plastic.
Possibly MORE durable in that using normal tyre replacement procedures, when you need to replace the tyres you don't trash the wheels as well, as could happen with plastic.
If you knock them, you might yelp - instead of just a 'so what' if it was plastic - price, etc.

There are pros, and cons. Definitely make a model 'pop', as some say.

Less 'drive' problems - no rounding of the socket for the drive hex / square.
Al.
 
How does one mount tires on aluminum wheels? Same gluing process? Does the removal process require heat?
 
As K says, some are beadlocks.
I use E6000 - wonderful stuff.

Removal with E6000 requires petrol!
Removal with the various superglue options is a mix of OVEN, BOILING WATER and/or ACETONE (nail varnish remover).

ALL require a well ventilated area.
Use the OVEN and you will be living on your own for a week or so!!
IT STINKS!!

Using ACETONE, do it OUTSIDE - HIGHLY flammable and smelly.

Al.
 
Maybe it's a good idea to use aluminum wheels for display. The process you described sounds like a lot of elbow grease involved.
 
I got fed up of re-gluing and re-gluing the tyres onto the alloy rims - MT in my Avatar.
This was using all manner of the cyanoacrylate superglues - thin, medium, thicker ... kept on breaking their seal and blowing off the tyres ....
Then I used that E6000 - not lost a millimetre of seal once and I been slamming on the anchors, spin turning, doing donuts - everything I could to break the seal.

IT DOES take 2 days to seal properly - I used cable ties to hold in place and systematically broke them off.
Brilliant stuff.

Did I say that the 4 wheels, inserts, MCD tyres combined weigh 6 kg? !!!!!!!!!!

Al.
 
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