ORIGINAL: mnrcaerobat
ORIGINAL: Chris_RC
If a tire is worn out, cut the tire close to the bead and soak the tires in acetone for a night or 2. The tires will come off easily. The foams will be toast though. The oven method sucks and the boiling method never really worked for me. Let me rephrase, if you take the worn tires out and take out the foam (only reuse good quality foam, NOT proline!) then the foam will be fine since it is not exposed to acetone. But if you soak the foam in the acetone they will tear easily. I just use a dry coffee container with lid for the acetone and only fill it with acetone about 1/8 of the way since the fumes is what really kills the CA.
Worked great. I just put them in a container with a little acetone and after several days, they pulled off really easy.
Now how do I balance the tires. The rims I have had some glue from a hot glue gun in the bays. Is that a good way?
If you have a 1/8 car you 17mm hexes the Dynamite tire balancer works great! You can also use a spare hub and take the driveshaft part out leaving the otudrive in and you can balance your tires that way also. I currently use the Dubro Pro balancer and it works good, but if you have big MT tires they wont fit. I use non hardening model clay on 0 offset rims and lead tape from a golf store for 1/2" offset rims. If you dont need a perfect balance job, modeling clay will work fine.