So I took my kids to a park today after tuning up the Typhon to get ready for the spring season. Punch set to 9, 6s lipo, wheelie bar, and a brand new set of duratrax bandito C3s to go ahead and rip it up.
I live in Manhattan, so it didn't take long for the crowd of people together and watch me turn my front wheels into Pizza cutters. After a few end to end wheelies I noticed what seemed to be a slight wobble in the left front tire. I went ahead and did one more wheelie and pizza cutter demonstration and then my tire pretty much decided it no longer wanted married to the wheel. I read in here before that the bandidos sometimes aren't glued that well coming straight the factory.
I was only about 10 minutes into the bash session, and didn't have a replacement tire of course. I did however have this Bob Smith industries tire glue that I bought from Amazon, but didn't really know anything about the brand.
Looking at the tire, it wasn't a clean tear away from the rim. Anyhow I packed it all back on the rim and applied a very generous portion of the glue. I thought I might get a few minutes out of it at most, but to my surprise after letting it set only about 30 minutes I was able to run it full tilt until the battery died and the glue held flawlessly. I was even beating on it towards the end in exactly the same way that got me in trouble in the first place.
For about a dollars worth of glue, which is really based on the quantity that I used on the tire I'll probably get a few more bash sessions. If you're looking for a good tire glue, I'd recommend Bob Smith industries.
I live in Manhattan, so it didn't take long for the crowd of people together and watch me turn my front wheels into Pizza cutters. After a few end to end wheelies I noticed what seemed to be a slight wobble in the left front tire. I went ahead and did one more wheelie and pizza cutter demonstration and then my tire pretty much decided it no longer wanted married to the wheel. I read in here before that the bandidos sometimes aren't glued that well coming straight the factory.
I was only about 10 minutes into the bash session, and didn't have a replacement tire of course. I did however have this Bob Smith industries tire glue that I bought from Amazon, but didn't really know anything about the brand.
Looking at the tire, it wasn't a clean tear away from the rim. Anyhow I packed it all back on the rim and applied a very generous portion of the glue. I thought I might get a few minutes out of it at most, but to my surprise after letting it set only about 30 minutes I was able to run it full tilt until the battery died and the glue held flawlessly. I was even beating on it towards the end in exactly the same way that got me in trouble in the first place.
For about a dollars worth of glue, which is really based on the quantity that I used on the tire I'll probably get a few more bash sessions. If you're looking for a good tire glue, I'd recommend Bob Smith industries.