Well I fly jets and warbirds!

I have had a Mig 15 with Glennis wheels and breaks and now I have a Eurofighter with Glennis wheels and Breaks!

I have enclosed some pictures that shows you what happens to the rubber tires ofter just 2-3 flights. They simply will not stay on!

We have tried everything to keep them on the rims as you can see, but forget it, they just do not work.

I recommend to never buy Glennis wheels. This is my Eurofighter, with a P-200 in it. Out of 15 flights the tire stayed on for 5 flights only! When they rortet at high speeds they examd and will not stay on!

Highly recommend to use the Robart breaks and tires instead!

The other problem with the Glennis system is that the actual axel will wear through the rim after several flights meaning that the tire will either lock up or the whole tire/rim comes of! The disks push towards the inside of the rim and therefore the axel will eventually work its way through the rim!

Do not use Glennis wheels and breaks!

Regards
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Egil C. Wigert
Ph 303 440 5053

Unfortunately your have learned an expensive lesson (like $500 -$600) I have been preaching for the last four years that the wheels and brakes made by Glennis (Dennis Rastetter) are junk and always will be junk. You will not get any satisfaction from Dennis on the failure of the wheels. He will direct you to his "terms and conditions of sale" which are rediculous. Believe me they are not in your favor. They are to protect him from the customers he sells his junk to. I know and I have been there and done that! He made 3 shipments to me of the same product of which the first two were junk. The machining looked like a high school kid did it. Dunn & Bradstreet says he has 3 employees - Dennis, his father and maybe his wife. Everything is farmed out. Fortunately I charged them to VISA so I had their complaint department working for me. It took a full year, many letters, phone calls and a complaint to Visa's complaint department. After I received a respectable set of wheels and brakes Dennis wrote me an Email and called me a "COMMON CRIMINAL", a "STREET THUG WITH A GUN". and a "DEADBEAT". DEADBEAT? - hardly. Dennis had his money the day I placed the order. That is the way he does business. Your only hope is that you charged them to a credit card. Even if you have paid them you still can file a complaint against Glennis. After that give the Better Business Bureau a shot at him. Try the Secretary of the State or Attorney General of California. There are many ways to deal with people who try and cheat you. And don't let him try and scare you out of it - he will. After I received the wheels and brakes that appeared to be respectable I sold them as fast as I could find someone to buy them. I also sold a second set that came from Century Jet in a F9F-9 Cougar kit. They were also sold at about 50% of what Glennis sells them for.

The reason your tires came apart is because of the poor material used to mold them. They came off the rims? The brearing wore out and ruined you rims?? Common for a Glennis Product. His bearings are made of cheap plastic. The brake design is not the standard "O" ring type. They are a 'mickey mouse' unconventional design. That is why they wear out quickly and lockup. No other manufacturer of wheels and brakes uses a cheap plastic bearing. All are either brass, bronze or ball or roller bearings. There are MANY excellent wheel and brake manufacturers and more are coming on line every day. But Glennis is not one of them.

Dennis is a hibitual liar. I can prove that in a 10 page letter I wrote and circulated. If you would like a copy of this letter I will be happy to Email it to you. It will open your eyes. Just send me an Email with your address and I will send it to you. Dennis has threatened to sue me for liable and to file criminal charges against me. I wish he would. All he does is threaten.

I wish you well in your problem with the Glennis wheels. You are goiing to need it.

I personally do not like the material Glennis uses for the tires. I had a set of these (10 weels total) on my L1011, and they wore pretty quickly compared to most other brands, however they never came apart like that . I do like a lot of the wheel designs that Glennis offers, and it would be nice to see a diferent compound used ... I have a set of Glennis wheels on a CAI Raptor which I have not flown yet. I will keep these for now, and see how they last ..


Wojtek

Well, you clearly have some issue - I don't know what it is though, as you never even contacted me. I will address some of the statements here though.

Obviously some "work" was done to the tire, and no doubt it failed under that abuse. It has clearly failed through one of the holes you drilled in it. Tires are subject to being used properly - in other words you have to know how to fly a model. That may not be the case here, but there is always more to the tire failure story than meets the eye. Without being given a chance - there was nothing I could do to fix or remedy this -

Neither of these individuals ever paid near $500.00 or $600.00 for any order - in fact, ARW9FMW's order was less than $350.00 totally including shipping and the optional Fully proportional brake valve. As far as Egil, he show's 3 orders, including replacement brake disc's (so he has clearly had many successful flights - as those of you know who have had to replace them). Of course none of his orders is close to $500.00 - Yes, he has ordered more than 1 set since November of 2003 - so I guess something is amiss here.

Keep in mind, before you jump to judgments, that we don't have a very large contingent of complaints posted, considering 10 years of manufacture for the wheel shown here. Of the complaints listed as of this post, we have one individual who refused to call the manufacturer, so he is obviously not serious, one who just doesn't like the wear, but still has and will still use them and a third. . . .

ARW9FMW has been censored in the past by RCU, and he took his ball and went home - filed an e-mail resigning from RCU, etc. I have copies, and will post them or e-mail them to whoever would like one. So ugly was his tirade that I received a sympathy card from the RCU staff.

Unfortunately, the moderators at RCU are usually a little to slow on the draw, and let the non-participants post wild allegations.

To be clear to all, it is the 4th of July (holiday) and I am right here in the machine shop making parts - many for repeat customers - 16+ years. Kind of makes you wonder about the quality of my products - the word is just now coming out from 2 individuals - One of which has been censored for his wild attacks.

I've never listed with Dun and Bradstreet - I don't know how or where they got their information - in fact in my opinion, they are useless as a reporting firm, as I have never found their information to be correct, as it isn't in this case obviously

I don't farm out work, never have - another Lie. What proof? Moderators?

ARW9FMW is far smarter than the engineers at Dupont on cheap plastic.

http://heritage.dupont.com/floater/f.../floater.shtml

Carefully read the section "Today, Delrin® is a mainstay of DuPont's engineering polymers line and is widely acclaimed as a lightweight but durable low wear, low friction plastic for electronic office equipment, advanced conveyor technology, and automotive applications"

I'm a "habitual liar" (by the way, he is not a good speller or good with grammar) - how can this be posted by anyone who is serious in this hobby? Keep in mind, Mr. Mathias' credit card company did not find that he had ground to stand on in his claim. Why? Because he wanted a full refund, and keep his order, plus purchase spare parts. They turned him down flat.

In order to file with the Better Business Bureau, or State Attorney Generals, you have to have proof of a crime or bad business practice. Unfortunately you don't have any of that, you have a part failure, which as you refused to contact us, you cannot get fixed. ARW's 'shell' game (wanting to keep his items and be refunded) clearly would not qualify, and he didn't file any such reports, etc.

I wonder if he told the person he sold his items to, or if he told a little white 'lie' to turn them. I don't see that individual posting with a complaint though. My opinion is that ARW's real hobby is computer chat rooms, not R/C

As for the numerous who have called with sympathy for these individuals actions, I appreciate it - as they have found, we are having a special sale for those that mention this post.

Finally, let me say, these Glennis products that you are making these wild claims about, were just used on another Top Gun winning plane. Do a search on RCU, see what you find - obviously not the information to back up anything posted above.

Dennis Rastetter
Glennis Aircraft

great info Dennis. love the wheels I have from you.
thanks for clearing this up here[sm=thumbup.gif]

Thanks, and for the habitual lying, etc., etc.,

Egil, why do you show only one post previously? Didn't you used to be on here under another username? Why change?

The sale is going good, keep it up guys!!

Thanks

Dennis

I have 'Never' had a problem with any Glennis wheels I have used, infact quite the opposite they seem to ware less than any others I have!!! I now have 30 plus flights on my Glennis F-86 wheels on my Fiber Classics Sabre with little sign of 'any' ware... Just ordered Glennis wheels/brakes for my new Yellow F-18 ARF twin and my Fiber Classics Mig-15.... I love em!!!

Gotta love the cable tie repair job in post #1

Yeah Marty, should have the stuff out this week.

I'll have to say, the cable ties and the screws were a first. When I have a problem with a machine in the shop, I don't have time to go "chat rooming", I call the company and get a solution or a replacement part. I surely don't go for the zip ties.

Dennis

Dennis:

Those photos demonstrate some real Yankee Ingenuity.......

Never had any problems with your W/B on my aged Hotspot with more than 200 flights on it, about 1/2 on grass and 1/2 on hard surface......using a UP-6 proportional brake valve with about 30-40 PSI in the tank......

Guess I am on the 3rd set of main tires in those 200 or so flights......still on the original nose tire.....

One thing I have noticed is that if you lose a tire off any manufacturer's W/B, you have to check the rim carefully.....they can and do grind down, often quite drastically, precluding any tire staying on after that.....

The photo on the next post is of one of your beauties off my now deceased Planes Plus F-15....takeoff weight was 32 lbs.....lots of flights....despite a nasty crash that ripped out the gear mounting plate and wet-noodled the strut, the tire is still on and as tight today as when it was put on....

Happy I-Day....

Tom

Thanks Tom -

Pretty clear that there is more to this story. Just got a set of F-18 wheels for replacement tires - 100 flights on them (Gregg Bingham's).

Once again old ARW9FMW looks like a fool. Wonder what the real motive was? One of the same individuals that ran the now defunct R/C Airport site into the ground, now he's in the cockpit here again (thanks to the RCU staff who once had him under control). I'm surprised that he didn't recommend calling Schwarzenegger directly - might as well start with the Governor

Have to get a kick out of the red disclaimer about the post area, I guess RCU doesn't enforce it. So much for their ban on individuals that got ugly online too.

Dennis

Those photos demonstrate----Something....[:'(] I don't know if I would call it Yankee Ingenuity though.

I'm almost willing to bet the farm that someone told him to drill some holes and install screws through the tires (ALA BVM) and that would stop the tires from rolling off of the wheels...And he got it all wrong..

Dennis---Keep up the good work.

Kevin

Spent lots of time with friends Greg and Paul at MAB, flying the stink out of their lightweightYellow 18.....

Didn't get hit in the ankles by any rolling rubber......

Tom

Got to get the new product report ready for the new "Glennis Zip Ties"

Seriously though; Don't let other 'sore sports' and 'experts' convince you to modify your items. When you do you compromise several things.

First of all: The 'Arw's' don't have the experience or knowledge to pull off the manufacture of these items, or they would be doing it. Heading into the drill press to start installing wood screws is no doubt going to tear something up (hands?). In this case you can see that the compromise in the tire caused a failure. There is an issue with the tire leaving the wheel (if it did), possibly a bad setup with too small wheel - aircraft over speed on takeoff. You don't have 5 successful flights and 15 bad - why did the tire stay on for 5? It is clear to me that the zip ties would probably interfere with the brakes, so this was a desperate mess.

Second: You cannot make a claim with your credit card co. when you tear the stuff up. Period. Same goes with Atty General, and the Secretary of State doesn't handle this type of issue (don't know where he got that). The Better Bus. Bureau will only write a letter and ask for a reply from me - and I will send the photo's of the screws / zip ties, and letter, and the facts - along with a couple of hundred recent recommendations that I will scratch up. Then they trash can it, sorry, but individuals such as ARW9FMW are trying anything to tear down reputable mfgs., (I suspect because of their 'rep' status for other mfgs.). Better Bus. Bureau is well familiar with the Mathias' of the world, and realize there is more going on than they are being told.

Third; probably the most important - when you have a problem, and you burn down the mfg. on RCU, you are cutting your own throat - he is your friend, the guy that is going to fix it, not the computer hobbiest. Now I'm sitting here saying "why help this guy"? - bad situation to step all over me, because in the end, I'm not going to forget it.

Forth: With all of the big time modelers either using the stuff, or have, these guys know more? Hahn, Patel, Bingham, Burley, McCurry, I can't name them all - take a look at our users page, and the new site will show far more. The stack of magazines in here with contest winning aircraft/Glennis wheels (most on the cover) is nearly 6 feet tall. This doen't even consider the guys like Tom that are flying the heck out of their stuff. Are these guys crazy?


Dennis

Prefcon @ Farw9fmw funny U Feel that way

I also run Glennis Wheels and brakes and don't have ur problems.

My Yellow F18 has what I consider the smoothest brakes going with an excellent large tire.

On my F15e the same situation so I find it hard to imagine what you are describing.

To me Glennis makes a great product.

Ian

Interesting - no reply from either - wonder why?

One more point on moderating this crap - why these types of post are not totally deleted I'll never know - with the facts posted here by others alone, they should have been pulled from further RCU participation - what about all of this tracking of the I.P. address's I heard on here before?

Clearly one party was lying outright and the other had some type of issue. One has multiple usernames (an RCU violation by the way) and the other has been screened for this activity before, then resigned from RCU, but needed a hobby and hung on.

Wojtec added in, but didn't lie about anything, just gave his opinion, and I do respect that.

Woj; don't feel bad - it's the first two that have issues - keep in touch on that Raptor.

Today's 'ARW9FMW' sale went good (they'll be more when he crawls out of his hole again) and the rest of you have been duly noted in my little book for future projects.

Thanks to all else.

Dennis

Hmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!

Don't "Hmmmmmm" me, this has went on for over 24 hrs., and the report to the moderator ended with him posting his own compliments on the product.

RCU deserves bashing like us who make a living manufacturing a product, if they run their operation this way. Ghost Rider (although he does a good job) was the moderator on ARW9FMW's last rant, and it went way too far. Now we are in the same situation, and Marc Vigod and everyone else has dropped the ball again in my opinion (and from the phone calls today) others.

Read the red disclaimer, and the RCU rules for multiple user names.

Mr. Vigod censored one of these individuals in the past, and apparently let him go at some point - he has posted three times in one year, most of them recently - the other has a 'history' of 1 post (this one) - what's up here? Is this just me?

This is what the manufactures (actually producing products out here) call 'hit and run' - a wild allegation, no chance or opportunity to make it right, and then they disappear - no replies, no explanations - it's not fair and it is a damn shame.




Dennis

Dennis

The thread originator signed his real name at the bottom of his post with his contact phone #. Have you made any attempt to contact your customer to resolve this issue or are you going to dedicate your efforts in attacking RCU, Mr. Vigod and the Jet moderators?.

FYI if you missed it, your customer's contact information as posted in his original post is:

Egil C. Wigert
Ph 303 440 5053

You will be surprised what a five-minute phone call can do.

Closing this thread.

Best Regards

Ben

Dennis,

your ripping apart me, my moderators and RCU here just like you were being ripped apart. that is rather hippocritical. what kind of response do you expect from us? is there a guaranteed turnaround to moderating here on RC Universe posted in our terms somewhere I don't know about?

I got your voicemail tonight at 1am EST and came online to find most of this thread revolving around you slamming us. I'm not going to return your call anymore. If you have a problem you can report it using the same tools as everyone else and if a rule is violated the moderators will deal with it when it is received. No moderator is on 24 hours a day to tend to a report. Sometimes they are on and it can take seconds. Other times it can take longer such as a few hours or even a day or so.

You might try next time not bashing the ones who you want to help you here to stop others from bashing you. Everyone knows you get more bees with honey than you do with vinegar.