Pneumatic Tires

[Den72]

With the desire for many to run "scale", does anyone make a set of tires that are filled with air instead of foam?

 

[WHITE-TRASH]

Gmade makes them but they're hot garbage. The tires aren't belted so they just inflate like a balloon and bounce. Vented tires with correct foam is the best solution.

 

[themountain]

eeemh...thats a thing from the past.

 

[durok]

If you want to be scale accurate as far as how they look, make some replica valve stems and drill a tiny hole in your rim to thread them into - but tires with the proper foams for your vehicle weight will flex their sidewalls as if they were aired-down real tires for off-road crawling, helping with performance.

 

[QuesoDelDiablo]

The issue with trying to create an air filled tire at 1/10 scale is primarily driven by the fact that we've scaled down the size of the vehicles, but we have not scaled down the weight. Added to that is the fact that rc tires are just molded rubber with no internal structure. Air pressure in 1:1 is a function of the weight of the vehicle so the math just plain and simple doesn't work out..

Anyone who's experimented with it could tell you that there's two scenarios once you install pneumatic tires - #1) to get sidewall support the air pressure has to be high enough that tires become bouncy little rubber balloons with no tread compliance or, #2) if the tires are aired down enough to have good tread compliance and to be less bouncy you have so sidewall support and you just flop over on any off-camber surface..

Neat concept but just doesn't work in 1/10..

Comes up as topic on the site about once every 6 months or so..

 

[Den72]

Thought was cool, but clearly I didn't put much thought into the question prior to asking as all the points mentioned make sense. "thumbsup"

 

[ferp420]

if we could only scale down the internal bead lock system basicly a innertube with a gap between the tire and the fully inflated tube
i run a small tire inside the big tire to mimic the system it works good but they can get heavy
on a scaler thats ok though