Crawler Innovations inserts for Proline Hyrax

[WHITE-TRASH]

Originally Posted by JatoTheRipper

My dad turned a 1.9 plastic wheel into a jig for his drill press. This with very low speed plus the hot wire would make it easy.

I don't exactly understand how the angle cut works. Are you saying it leans the foam into the wheel which puts pressure on the opposite side and holds it in place kinda by squeezing the wheel?

Grab the tread of a tire and pull it sideways. The foam with a full shoulder will get pealed off the wheel slightly and the inner foam will spring back at first chance.

With the angled foam the inner foam will get pushed into the wheel instead of peeled off of it.

[mewalsh100]

Originally Posted by WHITE-TRASH

I did that with some mid grade scissors but I used to use some dull old scissors my wife gave me and they worked fine.

I used to make the cuts and then buff the foam back smooth with a 1" flat faced stone in my dremel but figured it didn't make that big of a difference in function and it made a mess so I stopped.

OK - I’m gonna give this a try again.