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12-25-2008, 07:57 PM
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| Picky Fab'r/Acetal Junky   Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Arizona Desert/AJ
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|  Homemade Foam Crawling Tire....say what?
Stumbled across this tonight on the Tube...thought it was pretty cleaver. Looks to grip pretty well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdVZ6...el_page&fmt=18 |
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12-25-2008, 08:07 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Cincinnati
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Looks pretty cool. I wonder how long it takes to build a set and how long it holds up.
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12-25-2008, 09:43 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: banff,AB
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hmm, i wonder if they will be "sticky" on the rocks and such, when the get a layer of sand/dust on them. Would like to see them on the rocks. Pretty kool build. but i think ill just stick with buying tires. lol
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12-26-2008, 04:03 PM
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| Picky Fab'r/Acetal Junky Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Arizona Desert/AJ
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Yeah, looks like alot of time drawing up the templates, and cutting them out....then making the tires from them. Tires are still cheap enough to just buy them, but I thought it was cool to see someone build their own tires from scratch...and actually look like they'd do well.
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12-26-2008, 05:50 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2007 Location: Taylors Falls just hanging with the MNRCRC crew.
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Crazy skills but that's a ton of work. I think I'm going to stick with commercial available tires for my rigs I'm way to lazy.
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12-26-2008, 05:59 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Japan
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Crazy Japanese, plenty of time gone into those. Would be interested to see how they perform over time ;)
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12-27-2008, 01:53 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: santa monica
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check out his other vids. he's got some innovative (or at least interesting and unusual) things going on in his crawler besides the tires...
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12-27-2008, 08:16 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2007 Location: Taylors Falls just hanging with the MNRCRC crew.
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