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04-20-2008, 10:45 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Shreveport, La
Posts: 530
|  Memory foams dont wear out? hmmm...... me and constantmotion were talking a few minutes ago about his Aces doughnuts and he thinks his are worn out b/c they are responding so fast just from squishing the tire while on the wheel. i always heard memory foams dont wear out, then i decided to squish on mine, ....and i be damd....mine felt like i had regular foams in them also. so i pulled mine apart and made this little video.  Last edited by cspyy; 04-20-2008 at 10:56 PM. |
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04-20-2008, 10:50 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: United States
Posts: 211
| I din't think they wore out either, but that is a huge difference. Only one month, that was fast. |
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04-20-2008, 10:53 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: In da 801 "AKA Tiny"
Posts: 322
| There is definitely a big difference in response time  I hope mine last longer than a month..Thanks for the info |
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04-20-2008, 11:15 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: danvers
Posts: 14
| how much do thos foams go for, i cut my stock ones too much and i need to replace them, |
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04-20-2008, 11:16 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Henderson/Las Vegas, NV
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| did you get them wet? water will kill them. |
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04-20-2008, 11:17 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Dallas, Oregon
Posts: 570
| how much water have you ran in?? i heard water makes them go bad faster. |
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04-20-2008, 11:17 PM
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| In between.   Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Moscow Mills MO
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| weird. nice R&D though |
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04-20-2008, 11:18 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Bedias, Texas
Posts: 1,081
| Just curious, were these tires subjected to getting wet then drying out? David Xtreme Rc Hobbies |
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04-20-2008, 11:24 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Shreveport, La
Posts: 530
| haha, yes they have been wet. mine fell into the water and was completely submerged at the first comp. i took them out and let them dry for about 5 days before putting them back in and have been running them since On the bright side, I just found room for improvement on my rig!! im thinking of trying the xtreme-rc ones... one good thing about them is they dont have all that fuzzy crap all over them when they come outta the box well how bout that SACCO, i beat you this weekend WITHOUT memory foams!! lol |
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04-20-2008, 11:31 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2006 Location: AZ - In The 928
Posts: 4,425
| Of course they are going to wear out... you don't think the memory foam pillows or beads stay the same after 100+ lb people sleeping on them? |
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04-20-2008, 11:39 PM
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| In between. Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Moscow Mills MO
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| Ive had my foams longer than you...........so if your theory is correct, I havent had em longer than you.  Quote:
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04-20-2008, 11:50 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Shreveport, La
Posts: 530
| new weird finding........ i just squished them down the same way again, and the old foam is actually slowing down. its getting closer (still not near the same) to the new one What the Hell? i know the old one was even faster right when i pulled it out of the tire than the way it was in the video what do we gotta start letting them air out in between competitions??? |
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04-20-2008, 11:55 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Henderson/Las Vegas, NV
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| or just stay the hell away from water... lol. |
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04-21-2008, 12:09 AM
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| Dream...Think...Create.   Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Crawler Innovations, Tyler, TEXAS
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Like you need any more of an edge with your rig and driving skill  .Very nice video by the way. I have three sets of the ACES. I have done my best to never soak them in water, but you were at Children's Park and you saw all the water there. My son has soaked his set a couple of times. He took the ACES out of the bead locks to let them dry. He's had to do it twice. I wonder if water effects every brand the same. Maybe they should make inserts out of the gel stuff instead of using foams. | |
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04-21-2008, 07:43 AM
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| Gold Star Baby!   Join Date: May 2007 Location: Taylors Falls just hanging with the MNRCRC crew.
Posts: 6,821
| I'm not into getting my rig wet but I do wash my tires occasionally and the breather holes are subject to some water good to know good vid cspyy |
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04-21-2008, 10:49 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Jonesboro, Arkansas
Posts: 785
| Run em Airtight , You know how I roll |
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04-21-2008, 11:14 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Tacoma
Posts: 281
| nice to know that memory foams don't like water... and i live in the great northwest... |
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04-21-2008, 11:16 AM
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| TCS Team Manager  Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: on a Big Rock
Posts: 6,260
| I have noticed some variation fron batch to batch. |
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04-21-2008, 12:58 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Bedias, Texas
Posts: 1,081
| cspyy, I'm just trying to run down the problem here. Do you know exactly when the foams started turning yellow. In the vid it looks like the older foams are very yellow in color. Also not knowing the process used by Rizzo in manufacturing the Aces, is it possible the new foams have some sort of lubricant in them that could have been washed out when they got wet? Maybe this could have also changed the rebound characteristics. I'm just grasping at straws here but trying to figure it out. It seems the airtight method would greatly undermine the purpose of the memory foams IMHO. David |
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04-21-2008, 01:08 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: nampa
Posts: 155
| my brother had the same effect with the water and so when we took the tires apart last time we soaked the memory foam in acetone and it removed the yellow and made them look like new and the perform just as good at the first time |
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