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Old 10-17-2006 | 10:52 AM
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Hi i live in the uk and cannot find any 2" abs anywhere, the smallest i have found is 2 1/2" in wickes. does anyone know where i can get it from?

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Old 10-17-2006 | 01:07 PM
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i to can not find any i have found 50-51mm but no 52?
i ended up importing some ready cut from a chap on eaby in the US.
Old 10-17-2006 | 06:37 PM
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im watching some on ebay for about £6.74 but its the p+p which will be the expensive part, i will have to ask some of the plumbers around here if they can get any.
Old 10-18-2006 | 03:45 AM
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if you can only find 51 just put it in boiling water so it will expand then strtch it over the rim
Old 10-19-2006 | 04:58 AM
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i could only get 50mm abs.....it was about 3mm thick too......so i carefully sanded the rim of the wheel to get them to fit...the a drop of glue on the back to hold them.....i had tried the boiling water approach but it was not workingwell...infact not at all..
Old 10-19-2006 | 02:27 PM
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nitrodeano,!!!
im from kent, and i had trouble, i just buy them from yoko or hpi..lol, i must have been to every d.i.y store there is and i gave up, you guys from around the world need to understand something.....
our country sucks!!!...lol, we have a great footie team but we never get anything we want!!...lol
Old 10-19-2006 | 05:53 PM
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looking at the yoko and hpi tyres there a bit expensive, crash alot where do you go drifting?. i've just read your thread and thats a good deal for all that stuff you got for £25
Old 10-20-2006 | 05:17 AM
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i go to cars parks, tesco..(although i get chased of sometimes)..lol, toy's "r" us car park, me and a few friends bought some football cones and make little tracks, i dont do it to race, more for fun, but when there is a few of you its awsum, and its brings your game up aswell, i was helpless but as soon as i started competing i was bang on it, lol, im from medway area but in the country side of it, i tend to savage bash most of my time but drift in our community hall or church for practice, where you dude??

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Old 10-20-2006 | 10:51 AM
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Im currently at westgate-on-sea moved from chatham, trying to get back though coz of my bros and sis. what do you use to drift i have only got my nitro but am thinking of getting a tt 01 next year.
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Try a local plumbers merchant or plumb center

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Old 10-25-2006 | 06:16 AM
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due, i use tt01, bro has sprint2, but a ta05 is next on my list, its up to you, tt01 is easy 2 hop-up and turn a few heads..lol

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