**New** DLUX Wheels

[92LILREDYJ]

Nice im in! I like all of them... including the 5 star's.

[Chaotic Crawlers]

When I sat down to mount my D-lux wheels, I had to sit and stare at it for a bit because it was such a different way of mounting a tire. (my wife even commented on how different they were)


But it went together easy as pie!
You just have to stop thinking of it as a "normal" wheel.

[Robotboy]

These look incredible! Kudos Erik

I sure hope Santa is good to me

[EeePee]

Originally Posted by Duuuuuuuude

Now you've got me thinking about drilling big fat 1/2" vent holes in my current wheels.

Or four 1/8 inch holes in the wheel, and four more in the tires.

One could even cut down the posts that space the wheel apart and have custom widths, quiet easily.

[jacobflyin]

Originally Posted by JeremyH

Fugazi!

Now I have more respect for the RC crawler Community.

What other band did the lead signer sign for ?
Lead signers name ?

Sorry Erik for the tread jack.

[jacobflyin]

Originally Posted by JeremyH

Don't forget about Minor Threat!

Damn I should read farther down before posting.

[Highlucks]

Originally Posted by Erik D_lux

The white ones should be no different than dying any other delrin. If the clear ones hold up they could be even cooler since you could paint the backside.

Or have bolt in skins made to go behind the plate.

As far as strength of the clear goes if you have the time and material available to you. I think it would be worth trying some clear PVC it is a lot more forgiving than poly carbonate.

I am very keen to have a go at these wheels. From what I saw in Vegas. After the change to the solid face I was very impressed.

[Arct1k]

Don't get me wrong looks like a cool idea but credit i think goes to SVEN back in May on his super...

Originally Posted by SVEN

So, just getting around to making a 2nd wheel .

This time in the 6 inch flavor. And now I am wishing I would have stuck with my first instinct to go with 6.5. Oh well, I am going to stick with the 6" for now cause I am running low on tires to cut up and I can fit more than one wheel on a sheet of material (the 7" hurt the wallet).

This is how they compare...

Even has pics of a 2.2 / 1.9 version

[Hittman]

Those Dlux are such sick rims.... i love the adjustability. cant wait for these to go into production.

[Erik D_lux]

Here is the vid that goes along with 53Willys that he posted earlier. I think its better because I make it look so much harder that he does. LOL.

100 2459 - YouTube

[1beatjeep]

What is the ID of the inner beadlock ring

[Erik D_lux]

Originally Posted by highlucks

As far as strength of the clear goes if you have the time and material available to you. I think it would be worth trying some clear PVC it is a lot more forgiving than poly carbonate.

I am not finding a source for clear PVC??? Is the clear version metric or something

Originally Posted by 1beatjeep

What is the ID of the inner beadlock ring

1.75 between the screws/spacers

2.060 everywhere else.

[EeePee]

Nice rubber pile. I think you lost half your front tire sidewall tread on that.

[Highlucks]

I am not too sure. I just know it has been used at work for some clear piping in place of poly carb.

[josh6575]

I have been running rc4wd stock bully wheels that I cut the center out of the rim and used spacers to make up that area. This is a great Idea and it works great. An advantage to using 8 holes to hold them together is using 4 bolts in each side to hold the bead in the grove with the ring. This allows seating the bead without compressing the tire and adding 4 spacers after. Then the wheel width can be changed without taking the tire off of the bead. I have also changed foam without taking the tire off of the bead. I drilled the threads out of 2 holes on each rim half to bolt through to the other half. It is more hardware but it sure makes things easy.

[JeremyH]

Originally Posted by jacobflyin

Damn I should read farther down before posting.

And his name is Ian McKay.

[stubs179]

Originally Posted by 1beatjeep

What is the ID of the inner beadlock ring

I wouldn't worry about it. Your are not aloud to use anything but plastic HPI wheels. End of story.

[binaryterror]

Originally Posted by JeremyH

Don't forget about Minor Threat!

Or 7 Seconds

Originally Posted by highlucks

As far as strength of the clear goes if you have the time and material available to you. I think it would be worth trying some clear PVC it is a lot more forgiving than poly carbonate.

PVC in clear is much weaker when it comes to similar thicknesses than PolyCarb, Acyrlic and PETG. Acrylic though is too brittle and will snap..and massive fail when cold. PolyCarb/Lexan is bullet resistant in varieties and widths, should be perfectly fine.

PETG would be awesome, but its sadly a cold bending material (even in up to 1/4") and typically falls in between Acrylic and PolyCarb. The bending factor would cause the old wobbly wheel effect.

I think the only option is going to be PolyCarb, but its not cheap.

[jacobflyin]

Originally Posted by stubs179

I wouldn't worry about it. Your are not aloud to use anything but plastic HPI wheels. End of story.

Hahahaha that's right you can take the tire on and off not you kind of wheel Daniel.

[Highlucks]

Originally Posted by binaryterror

Or 7 Seconds



PVC in clear is much weaker when it comes to similar thicknesses than PolyCarb, Acyrlic and PETG. Acrylic though is too brittle and will snap..and massive fail when cold. PolyCarb/Lexan is bullet resistant in varieties and widths, should be perfectly fine.

PETG would be awesome, but its sadly a cold bending material (even in up to 1/4") and typically falls in between Acrylic and PolyCarb. The bending factor would cause the old wobbly wheel effect.

I think the only option is going to be PolyCarb, but its not cheap.

Cool, sounds like Poly Carb gets the win. Thanks for clearing that up BT. Now to sit back and wait for a price.