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Jimmy, too much steroids mate.
I have been lucky with hex's, I think I have only ever done 1 - and i think that was a wheel belonging to someone else too... even when my nuts have come loose, wheels have not striped hexes... bizarre. |
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They might not be Proline's Jimmy, I didn't see any branding and they look to be a different plastic.
Ben, the hex's on the B44/JC front wheels are about twice as deep as the Losi wheels, so much harder/impossible to strip. |
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Oh right thats ACE. I think i might wait a bit then till i get a batch of wheels and see what these B44/jconcepts wheels are like.
Jimmy ur an animal to break an outdrive lol. What were you tightening them up with e.g was it an electric driver? lil ben
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haha, this is the 501X. the hexes broke because they are the 'other way round' so the bend over the pin and snap if you tighten too much. I stripped a wheel and had one of woodys amazing 'hammered' nuts on- which was supposed to stop it coming off. unfortunately it really REALLY was hard to get off.. and the hardened (one way) out drive just snapped.
im no animal!!! not really |
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AE should have gone to a Touring sized hex on the front like hot bodies - rather than tease us with a hex that looks the same but isn't. The larger hex is ever less likely to strip than the new AE one.
(then perhaps you b44 boys would have been able to use the D4 and new Kyosho wheels also) |
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brown, deep brown wheels
Like my Maverick MTB anodized boutique bike, I'd like to stick with the theme of earthtone. I want to dye my B44 wheels some kind of baby poop brownish green. any RIT dye formulations come to mind? I thought about boiling them with the diapers, but the wife was adamantly against heating the panties on the stove.... go figure.
So here I am with chiminea at the ready, taking care to stoke the fire that will boil the concoction to a perfect putrid color. I haven't had time to perfect the mix, but I'm going to empirically add yellow, green, and red until some color coagulate begins to dominate. If you're still awake and reading this, and you aren't pre-occupied by making crop circles in the Bath Countryside, please do chime in your lessons. I will be stopping the color cure with acid (pure lime juice + vinegar) and an icy cold bath (ice + water). I'll then heat it up again for about 10 minutes to exhale all the pollutants. I'll apply a thick layer of Avant Skin Light Guard 45SPF over night (don't tell the missus - it cost $100 a bottle) and then rinsing in cold water and acetone in the AM. Hopefully the wheels will develop ZERO "liver spots" and will continue to dominate as they have the past couple seasons. -- f9a |
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sounds like a lot of fannying around just to run wheels of a different colour
i just run whatever wheels i've got the right tyres on at the time
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I lent some newer pins last sunday on yellow wheels and they kept putting me off i like white
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I like yellow wheels. That way I can run Marmite lids in a pinch...
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Have any JConcepts wheels made it to UK shops yet? I want to use these.
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Why haven't buggies come up with a standardised fitting for wheels yet!??? If a bunch of 'flat track' guys can, why can't the buggy manufacturers do it???
I know that Rear wheels are now pretty much standardised fitting, but I wish they would hurry up and do the same for front wheels! Seems to me to be a way of making racers buy the manufacturer's only wheels.... |
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Hi Mark,
It would be great if all matched, agreed. But we are better now than ever before, going back to the days before the B4, no wheels matched - not just due to fitment but due to offset. Just look at the deep dish of the B3, and medium dish of the Schumacher Cats. So it looks to me like it is slowly going that way. Its better today than it has ever been before anyway. |
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Yellow is the only way forward!!!!
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White, pink or black is the way to go
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Yellow
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