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    • April 24, 2006 at 6:24 am #9750
      mr.micro.2u
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      Hi, i am experimenting with concrete track surfaces, at the moment it is painted in a mat finish. Not great traction, can’t seem to get any tyres to hook up. Can you get foams to suit AWD and F1. HAs anyone ever tried PVA glue mixed with water lightly sprayed or even engine stopsmoke/slotcar track traction aid. Any help would be appreciated.
      Paul:D

    • April 25, 2006 at 4:37 pm #30371
      HACHI-RYOKU
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      ****EDIT****

      Sorry, editing this due to bad info I put out. I sat down with the MA-010 yesterday and fiddled with some gandini foams. It wouldn’t be too hard to incorperate, but they would end up sticking way out and they probably wouldn’t run smooth due to too much slop.

    • April 26, 2006 at 12:39 am #30356
      Avatar photoAaron
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      I have my doubts actually as the AWD wheels are keyed for drive and these foams definately are not.

      You would be looking for foam tyres, but not foam tyres pre-bonded to wheels which the Gandinis are.

      I doubt we’ll see any AWD specific pre-bonded foams as the cost to get a run made is huge. (USD5000 +)

      A.

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    • April 26, 2006 at 5:10 am #30351
      Kerosene
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      Looks like GPM make foam tires for the F1:
      http://www.the-border.com/product.php?productid=18408&cat=21&page=1

    • April 27, 2006 at 12:55 am #30309
      ph2t
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      what we need is an adapter for the ma-010 and the xmods EVO to allow gandini’s to fit on. that would be soooooo mad….

    • May 2, 2006 at 2:00 am #30244
      ph2t
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      Ok, I’ve gotten a bit futher with this….

      Found a place in the States that sell unmounted foam tyres, quite a selection too!!!

      http://www.competition-rc.com/products.php?cat=29

      I’ve put in a query to them about shipping to Aus…..

      Also, found a place that stocks the HUDY tyre truer…

      https://www.ssl-stormerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/seekpart.pl?src=ns&pn=HUD103200

      this may be what we’re looking for. I love my gandini’s but I also like my wider offset mr02 shells and the wide gandini’s only come in 0deg offset :(.
      Still props to Aaron for having the ONLY varied selection of foams….

      more info on the HUDY micro tyre truer here:

      http://www.hudy.net/xhudy/products/proddesc.php?prod_id=140&kategoria=62

      I hope they get back to me soon. So keen on this it’s not funny…..

      ph2t.

    • May 2, 2006 at 4:28 am #30243
      ph2t
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      Aaron, can you still source Gandini unmounted foams? Still got this box sitting here, lol….might actually use them PROPERLY soon….. 🙂

    • May 2, 2006 at 10:33 am #30240
      mr.micro.2u
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      Thanks heaps, i will try these and let you know. Do you think they will need to be ground, they look a bit thick.

    • May 2, 2006 at 11:19 am #30237
      Avatar photoAaron
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      ph2t wrote:
      Aaron, can you still source Gandini unmounted foams? Still got this box sitting here, lol….might actually use them PROPERLY soon….. 🙂

      To be honest I don’t know – probably could I guess… I’ll have an ask around

      A.

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    • May 2, 2006 at 2:14 pm #30230
      ph2t
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      Cool, please let us know! In the meantime, i’m going to see if I can get any more info aout the “GQ” product line as shown here:

      http://www.gqproduct.com/product/miniz.htm

    • May 11, 2006 at 12:48 pm #29975
      ph2t
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      Got my HUDY truer in now and finally did my first set of trued foams….

      Check the gallery here:

      http://www.ausmicro.com/forum/vbpicgallery.php?do=view&g=42

      Just waiting on some more foams from that site I linked earlier. At the moment I only have this set of gandini’s, nothing else 🙁

      The challange now is to make an adapter for AWD rims……

      ph2t.

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