When Do 3-Piece Wheels Need Their Tires Vented or Glued?

About this episode

This episode discusses when to vent or glue tires on Tamiya's three-piece wheels for high-speed R/C vehicles.

Generally speaking Tamiya's innovative three-piece R/C model vehicle kit wheels do not require gluing or venting of the tires. However, when you start putting ludicrously fast super powered motors and batteries in these vintage and rere (re-release) radio-controlled cars, trucks, buggies, vans, and jeeps these steps will need to be taken. In this episode of the RC Deep Dive podcast, we break down the laws of physics and give you the speed limits where you need to start venting and where you need to start gluing your RC tires to your classic three-piece wheels.

People in this episode

Host: RC Deep Dive

Topics covered

• R/C vehicles
• three-piece wheels
• tires venting
• tires gluing
• physics of speed
• model kits

Keywords

• R/C model
• Tamiya
• three-piece wheels
• venting tires
• gluing tires
• super powered motors
• vintage R/C cars

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Tamiya

Products: three-piece R/C model vehicle kit wheels, super powered motors, batteries, classic three-piece wheels

Places: vintage, re-release

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