How to: Boil? off older tires

[Cake Eater]

I have a set of clod rims that i want to get thew old hacked up tires on them. i would like to try to keep the current rims, i don't feel like purchasing new ones if i don't have to right now...
I've heard that tires can be boiled :?: off? Or something like that...

Is there anything more to know than to just get a big pot and boil some water then put in the wheels for a bit and they should peel off? Is it that simple?

Has anyone done this before?


If i'm incorrect in the way to do this, please let me know the correct or better way.

Thanks!!!

 

[triaxmaster]

i tried this about a month ago maybe longer and ruined 3 rims. seams boiling water is hot enough to warp the heck out of the rims... i ended up putting them in the oven and melting the rims till they were really soft then peeling the tires off.... now i need to get rims . i was just trying to unglue mine to narrow them

 

[radishkid]

You can get CA debonder from Tower Hobbies, this works. As an alternate, maybe try nail polish remover?

 

[WRMorrison]

I also tried the boiling technique to no avail. I just soake mine in a five gallon bucket of acetone overnight. Didn't hurt the wheels, and the glue (and tires :lol: )turned to mush, and came off easily.

I know that a large quantity of acetone isn't cheap, but maybe you know of a friend who paints or something? Soak 'em in his gun-cleaning bucket.

Just an idea

 

[Tha Dawg Catcher]

oven method is usually the best, just heat oven to 400* then TURN OVEN OFF let tires and rims sit in there for 45 min and peel em off

 

[Xtreme RC]

I have tried this and it works. Several of my friends have done this as well and it worked for them. And it didn't hurt the rims at all.

1. PRE-HEAT your oven to 350 degress. Once it has preheated then turn it off.
2. When the oven is pre-heated and you have turned it off then put your rims and tires in it for 10 minutes. Place them on a cookie sheet or aluminum foil. And if the rims are chrome then put the outside of the rim facing down so the chrome won't bubble up.
3. After 10 minutes take them out and let them cool down for about 5 minutes. This crystalizes the glue and makes the tires pop off fairly easily. Hope that helps.

 

[triaxmaster]

I have tried this and it works. Several of my friends have done this as well and it worked for them. And it didn't hurt the rims at all.

1. PRE-HEAT your oven to 350 degress. Once it has preheated then turn it off.
2. When the oven is pre-heated and you have turned it off then put your rims and tires in it for 10 minutes. Place them on a cookie sheet or aluminum foil. And if the rims are chrome then put the outside of the rim facing down so the chrome won't bubble up.
3. After 10 minutes take them out and let them cool down for about 5 minutes. This crystalizes the glue and makes the tires pop off fairly easily. Hope that helps.

i must have had bad clod rims . mine melted in the oven and in boiling water. could it be that some of them were made with different plastic? I did boil some t-maxx rims with no problems never tried the oven trick with them

 

[mike]

does putting them in the oven hurt the tire?

 

[ExtremeOffRoad]

i have also heard of soaking them in grafity remover. it is somespecial stuff my boss has. he uses it on his stadium truck tires and i used it on my jumbos and it worked awesome. it even softened the swamp dawgs.

 

[utbeamer]

I just removed a set of masher 2ks off of stock stampede rims today. I put the wheels in boiling water for about 1.25-1.50 hours. To keep this from being an all-day affair, I used a huge pot made for sealing canning jars. For the most part, the tires came right off. There were a couple of spots where I had to use a razorblade, but nothing major.

 

[Tha Dawg Catcher]

i must have had bad clod rims . mine melted in the oven and in boiling water. could it be that some of them were made with different plastic? I did boil some t-maxx rims with no problems never tried the oven trick with them

same method but i found that leaving them in longer works better i have never had a problem with chrome bubbling even face up

 

[chafey]

last time i used debonder on clod rims they melted to the tire

 

[Cake Eater]

It Worked...

I tried the "recipe" for the 350* oven method, and it worked perfectly. Thanks a lot for all the help!!!

 

[badhoopty]

I tried the "recipe" for the 350* oven method, and it worked perfectly. Thanks a lot for all the help!!!

i did this as well over the weekend. i was amazed how well it worked...

i preheated to 350, turned the oven off. put in my tires for about 12 minutes, flopping them about 3 times. again, this is THE way to remove tires without borking them.

 

[utbeamer]

Does putting them in the oven do anything to the tires?

 

[badhoopty]

Does putting them in the oven do anything to the tires?

they didnt have any noticable difference to me.

 

[Cake Eater]

The only thing i noticed about the tires after the bake was a very strong burning rubber smell, but without the burning rubber... Other wise the tires and rims were just fine.

 

[Natedog]

oven method is usually the best, just heat oven to 400* then TURN OVEN OFF let tires and rims sit in there for 45 min and peel em off

YAHOOOO....did the oven at 400'F, let em sit on foil for 20 minutes, and they came off like buttah!!!!!! This was with Stampede white wheels and ProLine Moab 2.2s.

 

[RcBro]

I've boiled about 6 sets off now. Never warped a rim. Just need to let them soak for awhile.

I have a pictures how-to if your interested.

 

[highhpcummins]

I boiled the wheels off my LST 2 tires, I had no problems. you just have to pay close attention to it. make sure the pot doesn't get less than half full. it took about a half hour per wheel. just take it out and check it every 10-15 min. you have to push the bead away from the wheel. you'll see it break away, you might have to put it back in the boiling water a few times.