Re: tracks from tires

[Mike Butts <buttsakauf-at-earthlink.net>]

Joe,
  I would like to do so but, I am a working student (19yrs old) and have precious 
little free time. I already do 144th scale R/C Big Gun Warship Combat and 1/6th 
scale tanks just have a great coolness factor. There is a whole world of various 
epoxies and glues out there. I have no tank or means to test bike tire tracks. I 
also cannot make any guide horns due to a lack of tools. I bought my ship already 
made and I just do maintenance to keep it running. I have had good success with 
gorilla glue holding polycarbonate (lexan) together. My ships ribs and keel are made 
of the polycarbonate and when it was dropped (not by me) it broke several ribs. The 
gorilla glue fixed the ribs good as new. I can just see if some various woods I have 
laying around will stick to bike tire rubber. That is about all the help I can 
offer. And by beads you mean side walls or what? How wide of a track is normal... 
4in?
Mike Butts


-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Sommer <anvilus9-at-adelphia.net>
Sent: Sep 23, 2004 12:01 AM
To: tanks-at-rctankcombat.com
Subject: Re: tracks from tires


Mike,

At 10:48 PM 9/22/2004 -0500, Mike Butts <buttsakauf-at-earthlink.net> wrote:
>   I reference to mounting guide horns on the inside of a mountain bike 
> tire. I say that an in-depth study of glues would be in order. There are 
> some incredible ones out there. Blue RTV silicon is very nice though 
> probably a bit too flexible. CA glue is too brittle. I would check on 
> stuff like Gorilla Glue I have used it on various things and found it to 
> be incredibly strong. It is activated by a tiny amount of moisture and 
> expand 3 times its initial size to fill small gaps. It must be clamped 
> though to attain full strength.
>Mike Butts
>(interested guy from texas)

You know more about adhesives than I do.  I hate
sticky stuff.

I hereby commission you to visit your local bike
shop, obtain some discarded tires, slit the beads
off (while retaining all ten digits), and conduct an
"an in-depth study of glues".

Give it a try.  Our current resident expert on sticky
stuff, Steve Tyng, recommends GOOP for almost
every application (including salving paint ball wounds
incurred in battle.)

Bike tires for tracks would provide awesome traction
and would be very cheap.

Keep us posted on:
a)  number of fingers
b)  how much skin has been stuck and torn off
c)  if this can work or not

Best wishes,
Joe


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