Wait that defeats the purpose 
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well, I was thinking for something where you want the low pressure softness combined with the grip of rubber treads… I think it really does have enough traction unless on snow and then I think I should have some cable chains basically. Heavy offroad is what I was thinking I guess with rough trails.
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I like the idea of the bike tires if you use them as “chains” then it gives you added grip amd is still bendy
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No, we use Thermosets, not Thermoplastics
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There is no such thing as tire slime for PU wheels is there?
Those wheels do look like a lot of fun.
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Such a fun Project, I would love to build a Beach Buggy Esk8. I have the perfect deck
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I’d love everyone to throw a prediction for what they think it will do for that.
might be like 50Wh/km?
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We actually use these wheels on paramotors…
right now I’m actually working on a project that uses very similar tires. Give me a week and I’ll have it up and running.
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Awesome! I was a little disappointed with how many engineers I see using these but no CAD models being available anywhere of any of the wheel models.
Those kind you have look a bit harder, have you used the same type of wheeleez wheels exactly?
I am excited to get a model of the hub printed to test fit asap.
Wondering what bearings I should try to use. 608 is tempting because I bet I could get away with 4 of them on a 8mm shaft.
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I personally don’t use wheeleze tires, they are pretty heavy and leak air bigtime! Also having a grooved tire helps with steering. Wheeleze tires like to slide instead of steer. They sell hubs for the wheeleze tire, but I think they are 1" fixed axle with bearings in the hub.
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Yeah it would have helped me model my own hub for this wheel, and I could have designed a kind of gearbox/pulley mount adapter that fit into the hub, but I ultimately would not have a use for the hub so I skipped it.
Might grab it later and I think I want to get the hub when I order the 12" version because making an AT gearbox adapter to that one should work good.
lots of space.
really not sure why I did not get the hub… thinking about it I could have even just printed spacers that let me use whatever size bearing I wanted.
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are you sure it wan not the knockoff balloon tires you are thinking about because they mentioned that being a problem.
will be good to see how this one does.
This is the only large pulley I have on hand.
smallest motor pulley is a 14T
look at the way those bolt holes fit with a little clearance
printed part in the middle, prob don’t need that big lip there because of the hub spline doing the locking.
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