Mazda ute

How are you guys unglueing your rubber tiers from the rims?. Does boiling them off realy work ? i don't want to stuff the rims up.
Trying to change the tiers on a 1/10 monster truck and will do my 1/10 on road as well butt would like to get the monster truck going for tomorrow. Thanks Gav.

samguan

some people heat it up in the oven..... I would just buy another rim to save some energy and time.

Mazda ute

Can't buy more rims must use the ones i have. Gee the bloke glued these suckers on i dont know what type of glue it was but for rc tireshe thinks it was called ZAP glue. What about the oven? ifso how hot and how long?.

Mazda ute

Mate came back today and said to use acetone it works perfect takes about 2mins and its done with a little scrape with a small screw driver to get the rest of the glue off and thats it.

241 racing

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I would agree Acetone works great but if you don't have any just boil them.I boil them for about 15 minutes on each side,I use tongs to pull them out.Lay them flay and push down evenly with the tongs and they should break free,just take your time.

Barber420

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Be careful with acetone as it can melt/eat/screw up some plastics and nylons. I would try a little in a descrete spot or on a junk piece of the same kind of plastic. Boiling them sometimes helps and sometimes doesn't. I like to physically rip/tear/pull the tires off of the rim and then clean out the bead with an x-acto knife. Be prepared to use some muscle doing it this way though, it works well, but is not an easy task. You gotta man up to do it this way. Perhaps if their were a small amount of rubber left in the bead when I was done I might use some acetone sparingly if I wanted to get the bead perfectly clean.

HPI_Savage_RC

Put them in a freezer. Cured cyanoacrylate is brittle when cold, and you be able to break the bond with minimal force.

ferrariowner123

Try these links;

http://forums.thetoyz.com/index.php?showtopic=7910

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzYMQQ-c2j8

http://www.misbehavin-rc.com/pit-lan...ling-tires.asp

The first one is the best IMHO