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01-07-2009, 11:57 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: SF Bay Area
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|  Scale Wheel Nut Cover is ready to ship   We expect to ship next few days, we will be loading it to our rack shortly. |
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01-08-2009, 06:07 AM
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| RC4WD Team Mgr/W.Pa.C.   Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Here
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| Available in Black??? |
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01-08-2009, 06:15 AM
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| I'm Dracula, Bitch.   Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Houston, TX
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| And what are you using to tighten it down? BTW, good to see that it fits on the Landy wheel....I have a hell of a time tightening the lock nuts on those wheels. |
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01-08-2009, 08:01 AM
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| I wanna be Dave   Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Detroit
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01-08-2009, 08:46 AM
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| ~The Scale Shop~  Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: KILLEEN TX
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| not at all, mnstr and MSD have been making them long before CTC even existed! there copying real world. and these are very different. these were designed by frac(i believe) and that man copies no one. |
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01-08-2009, 08:59 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: UK
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I started them and they have been changed a few times by someone else maybe Fracture I dont know. Whoever did the final design, there wasn't any copying of another vendors product involved in the design process. | |
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01-08-2009, 10:07 AM
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| Looking for scale goodies  Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: In Cali.
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01-08-2009, 11:49 AM
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| Quarry Creeper  Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Oakley
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| in defense of RC4WD, I don't believe they or we, copied anything. A yota hub is a yota hub. there's and ours are simular but not the same. Our goal is to offer unique and inovative products. I cant speak for RC but I'm guessing thats there goal also. I have great respect for there products, in fact some really amaze me  . Being the new kids on the block production is difficult to say the least. A lot of time spent in design, Prototyping, and mfg is not easy to do all at once. and sometimes 2 or more vendors can possible be working on the same idea without knowing it.my 2 cents Thanks Wes |
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01-08-2009, 04:42 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: SF Bay Area
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| Thanks Wes, you guys are doing amazing stuff already. I really like your transfer case. Check your email, I just send an email about something else that might be an interest to you. ----- For everybody else who read this post, these nut cover is designed by Katan, as we stated on our website. We got the design a long time ago, just took a long time to get it out. |
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01-08-2009, 06:16 PM
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| I'm Dracula, Bitch. Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Houston, TX
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01-14-2009, 07:36 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Nelson NewZealand Team RC4WD
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| Thanks STANG KILLA SS, Funnily enough me, Katan and 500swmag all developed pretty much the same thing completely independently around the same time.. And thats just within rc4wd. The first similar concepts I saw were probably the push on hubs from Mnster a long time ago. I would agree with CadToChrome that its hard to claim originality when we are all replicating Aisin hubs. As far as tightening these things down, pliers with something soft inbetween would do the job, otherwise a simple tool that locks into the face of the hub could be made if theres the damand.. Because of their diameter it should take a fair bit less grip than it does to tighten down a m4 nut. |
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01-14-2009, 08:16 PM
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| Haters gonna Hate   Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: In the Basement building Hiluxs and shit
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 These are different then CTC ones (look a lot bigger), plus like already stated a yota hub is a yota hub...just like a warn is a warn...CTC are similar to the ones that toyransaur did on scale but they arent the same. Also, I had pushed for these a looooooong time ago.... I was probably one of these 1st people to actually run center caps since I had so many of the 4runner ones. Center caps Anyways, is it just me, or does anyone else feel like these are a little bit big? I to think a tool to put them on would be cool, if the aluminum is soft pliars with a rag could still beat them up some... | |
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01-15-2009, 02:39 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Nelson NewZealand Team RC4WD
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01-15-2009, 04:06 AM
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| MWRCA'er  Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Byron, IL
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| I like them I just wish they were a consistent diameter. Not a big fan of how it looks like a button on the end of a post. I understand this was done to make room for the lug nuts on rc4wd wheels but it just looks a little goofy like. I'd make the hub a consistent diameter, the diameter of the mounting area then it would be perfect. Possibly it was kept larger again do to the very small and precise machining that has to be done to the face?They do look great on that 3rd wheel over. The rest looks a little out of place. |
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01-15-2009, 11:01 AM
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| Haters gonna Hate Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: In the Basement building Hiluxs and shit
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01-15-2009, 11:45 AM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Hawthorne, Florida
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01-15-2009, 02:25 PM
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| ~The Scale Shop~ Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: KILLEEN TX
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01-15-2009, 03:59 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Nelson NewZealand Team RC4WD
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| Im not fussed on the button post thing either, mine had the wavy profile more like the real thing. Not sure how big mine were though, they might have been slightly smaller. Also I dont know how mine would work in with the rc4wd lug nuts, I didnt check. |
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01-15-2009, 04:52 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: UK
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01-15-2009, 05:15 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Nelson NewZealand Team RC4WD
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| ok, well hopefully they can make a more realistic version as well for use on other wheels. |
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