Tire Gluing issues

[Lessen]

Damnit, I hate gluing tires. I'm having trouble getting my Proline Mashers mounted on some RPM wheels. Has anybody else noticed that the Proline bead is not deep enough to fit all the way into the RPM channel (or the the RPM channel is too deep for the bead, depending on who you want to blame). Anybody else have issues with this? I put plenty of glue down there but the bead simpley doesn't reach no matter how much I press on it. What do I need to do?... put a ton of glue down in there and just wait for the glue to dry up and pull down as far it will?

 

[CharliesTheMan]

I'm no expert by any means, but it seems like if you are going to go with the above route, maybe you could build it up with something better than glue, and then use glue like normal. I don't know what substances react the best with CA, so I can't be much help, just thought that I would throw the idea out there. I REALLY appreciate you sharing that useful tidbit of info with us, when people post things like that it saves the rest of us A LOT of headaches in the future.

lmao, would that gap happen to be 1/64 of an inch??

 

[Lessen]

lmao, would that gap happen to be 1/64 of an inch??

Ha! probably a bit more than that

 

[NCNitro]

You could always get thin flat styrene and wrap it around the inside of the bead and glue it to the rim first. That would eat up a good bit of that depth, and the ca for the tires will bond to styrene no problem.

You can get the styrene at many hobby shops or on line at Tower.

 

[Lessen]

You know.. now that I think of it (actually thanks to the 1/64 comment) I think I had the exact same issue with the set I traded Dom. I just put a real heavy bead of CA down in there and just let it take up the space. Hopefully it will hold up but I think I got a decent bond now. The first time around it only bonded the inside edge of the bead and the outside edge in a couple spots. So I tore the outside edges away and peeled the tire back a bit at a time and put a heavy bead down in there. The outside edge doens't peel back now but I still can't be sure if the entire flat surface of the bead is bonded... I almost doubt it to be honest.

That's a good idea Joe. Unfortunately, I'm much too impatient for that At least it's not messy, if it tears away I'll definitly try the styrene route. :thumbup:

 

[abadk9420]

One thing I have tried is taking a couple of those thick rubber bands off of a bunch of brockly they are sort and strong and apply a lot of even pressure, put one on both sides of the tire where the bead is along with plenty of tire ca its always worked well for me, good luck...

 

[Lessen]

Unfortunately, no amount of pressure allows the horizontal surface of the tire bead to make contact with the surface of the rim. If I had glue covering the entire H surface of the rim channel and pinched the tire to it with my fingers I could lift the tire bead back and there would be absolutely no glue on the horizontal surface of the tire's bead probably 80% of the way around. It would make contact at the edges but not at the surface where you really want a strong bond. Like I said, I put a thick ass bead in there so hopefully it works out. If it pulls away I'l go the styrene route like NCN suggested.

 

[SMaxxin]

I tried using rubber bands to hold pressure, when that didn't work I glued the rubber bands into the wheel bead to take up some of the space...worked like a charm! These were short, thick rubbers.




Did I leave the door open are what LOL

 

[CharliesTheMan]

lmao WIDE open

 

[Rolex]

taking a couple of those thick rubber bands off of a bunch of brockly

Please don't tell me I'll need to buy broccoli just for a few rubber bands.

These were short, thick rubbers.

Doesn't surprise me at all to hear that you use really short ones.

 

[olds97_lss]

Guess you will never know that there's a serial number on ever one... poor fella.