Winter spike tires - test & build video

[RCscale101]

Hello,

I've always wanted to have a set of spike tires for my 1/18 scale crawlers (RC4WD). I came up with a fairly easy method that exceeded my expectations! I made this video to show the test drive on an icy river and my build details.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA4R3Td4T80

I hope this may be useful to some of you living in a cold part of the world! I still have to test those tires on other environments though...

Cheers!

 

[GorillaDad]

This is awesome! Well done.

 

[Daycrawler]

Great idea Thanks! It's something that has me thinking, should I?

 

[RCscale101]

Thanks for your answers guys!

I've been testing the spike tires for the past 10 days and they work amazingly well. One thing I would probably changed in my tutorial would be to cut alternatively the screws at 0° and 90° so it keeps traction forwards AND sideways (the cutting plier inprint a certain teeth shape to the screw ends).

Here is a recent video with the Bronco and its new spike tires on costal sea ice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg21YodI4Rk

Cheers!

 

[ferp420]

thats some amazing ice you got there

 

[RCscale101]

Sure is. I got lucky by discovering this place the day there was low temperature and low tide and sun!

 

[RCscale101]

... and here is a last video of my trip to Iceland, still with the 1/18 Bronco with spike tires (sequel of the previous link):
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Have a good one!