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Honest comment: with all the issues I've seen with ABS and layer adhesion, I wasn't sure it would happen. Your construction, however, mitigates a lot of those issues and I'm impressed. So... curious to see how it holds up to lateral forces on hard steering. I'd like to see it driven hard on a test course, if possible. (All four wheels printed, if possible.)

Hahaha this is such a wild project and love that you’re not given up on it!

Good work getting this far with the project. I suspect that point loads (like hitting pothole or a curb) or side loads are going to break it - the weakest spot is where the bolts are holding the rim to a hub. It's probably going to get ripped from the bolts. If that holds the next issue is the heat from the brakes. If that rim survives I'm going to be seriously impressed and if not I'm hoping that's not the last iteration. Keep pushing boundaries.

Just a tip! If you put 2 nuts next to each other on to the thread (counter nut) you can use them with a wrench or other tool to screw in the bars. This way you won't strip the hole surface with the hammer.

I would print one more rather than three. Put one on each side (front or rear) and drive it somewhere that would see a variety of conditions. I' wondering how it would hold up when turning. Congratulations on this success!

you know things are getting serious when he breaks out the Zwitsal

This is amazing, Jon. I'm happy for you. This has been a long project. Next tests: 1: Full tire pressure (2.4 bars?) 2: Burnout on a paved surface. (I'm still a little concerned about the heat generation on pavement, though this is encouraging.)

Quite impressive results. I think the problem may when riding quite long downhill - brakes may get quite hot and this heat can soften the plastic.

I have been watching for a few videos, but this pushed me over the edge to becoming a subscriber! Your humor, engineering, stick-to-itiveness make these videos very entertaining. Awesome video and awesome result! We are all rooting for you!

Great video. Not quite as challenging as creating a rim, but I have just lost my 2nd wheel cover on my Peugeot Boxer van - so was thinking I might try and print some replacements - your video has inspired me to get on and do it.

Well, your biggest issue has always been the rim splitting along that seam... When you went from your first to your second iteration you beefed the hell of every aspect of that rim when you did that despite that being the only spot that failed. That being said however, I think your new beefy design could actually be slimmed down some (if you are printing the thing solid... which I have no idea if you are or not) but will need testing. A lot of people are bringing up hitting the brakes for extended periods or hitting curbs or whatever, but honestly, I think the highest loading factor will be cornering. If you put the rim back on the front of the car, and then subject it to large cornering forces... the spot where the lugs attach it to the car may end up being the weak point because of the immense leverage that is created on a rim. One "could" solve that with a metal plate on the outer surface of the rim acting as almost a clamp that some bolts would go through to sandwich the rim to the car and spread out the load... but honestly that really wouldn't be in the spirit of the challenge. Something you "may" be able to do to increase the strength is to potentially figure out a way of printing the rim with some form of non plainer surface throughout the layers. So as the printer is making the rim, it is vertically sweeping the surface up and down as if its following a ruffled potato chip. In doing this you end up somewhat breaking up that fundamental layer shearing issue and gaining a bit of strength... but naturally no one has done this yet, you are limited (not you in particular but 3D printers in general) in how steep an angle you can run up and down along with how much change in Z can be done, and lastly, It would need an entirely new way of slicing to get something like this to work. But you seem to be a pretty talented programmer you might be able to pull it off! One final thing I would also like to point out... if you had done this on a smaller car, honestly your first iteration would probably have worked and worked well. It wouldn't have been the strongest thing, but you could have at least driven around on it gently before it broke. Like I have a Honda Beat and I believe you have a Mini Cooper... either of those this challenge would have been a piece of cake... but, again... then it really wouldn't have been much of a challenge. So I commend you for getting this to work on a car such as this! This will open many peoples minds to the possibility's of what 3D printers are capable of! I honestly was thinking about printing full blown fenders with something like a Hangbot 3D printer... never got around to it yet though so it has all just been a thought and concept.

I had a 100% confidence you'd make it this far mate. I've seen you bend the unbendable and figure out the unfigurable, so why not this too 🙂 Loved this 🙂

That is freakin amazing, I did not expect it to survive a burn out. cannot wait to see you replace all 4 wheels with it!

Love your videos man, they are crazy interesting and very fun to watch. Your face while you were filling up the tire was so funny :). Regards from Brazil!

Haha his reaction when trying to set the tires bead what priceless. Same reaction I had the first time setting a bead from the valve stem.

That's pretty impressive work. The only issue I can see with it is that when slowing down fast, a brake disc usually uses it's wheel a bit like a heatsink. Without this thermal mass to dump heat into, the brake disc will take a lot longer to cool down. So repeated stops one after another will accumulatively raise the temperature of the disc much higher than usual. I'm not sure what temperature it would take for the wheels mating face to turn back into molten plastic (and all the wheel bolts clamping force disappeared), but I'm pretty sure, whatever that temperature is, the brake disc could be pushed well beyond it.

first video i saw of you guys. liked it really. greetings from the northcoast of germany

You could fuse the layers by heating the complete rim packed in fine crushed salt. Also when driving the rods in, use an angle grinder to cut a long slot into the all thread. The edge of the slot will cut the thread into the plastic while screwing it in. It will also hold glue to make the distribution in the hole better. To bend the rod at exactly the right place, saw into the all thread 1/5th at that place. The rod is weaken there but its plenty strong enough for the surrounding plastic.

All in all you unexpectedly had a longer video than you thought you were going to make. Great deal, I was going to recommend some kind of nut with a flange on it to keep from pulling through. It seems the new print with threaded rod held up great.

Its been a year. Im eager for more rim content. 😂😂😂 Seriously Dr Zeus. Lets see it!!!

You guys are absolute MADLADS and I love it. The lack of PPE is concerning, but I mean, you uploaded it, so you are still here lol. Amazing to see this come to life!

I think another really cool application would be on off road recreational vehicles: 4 wheeler, dirt bike, side by side. It should come with it own unique challenges. A smaller vehicle might give you some wiggle room with the design considering your 3D printer bed's dimension limit. You can get a cheap 4 wheeler and 3D print a whole set for it and see if it can take the hostile environment of off roading! Also great work and awesome videos! Thanks for sharing this.

I was certain you'd need some sort of ABS blend with extra PC for stiffness to pull this off. Impressive project.

Honest opinion: yes I thought you would make it, the threaded rods solved your main issue. Baking/reheating prints (whilst covered in powdered salt/plaster) seems to really bond layers together (CNC Kitchen has some videos on this). Getting the rims to fit would probably mean needing to build your own kiln style oven (with firebrick and NiCr wire).

I must say I'm truly impressed! You had a goal and you didn't give up. I believed in you and the project and it's so nice to see it succeed 😀

Wow!!!! This is an amazing experiment! I wasn't expecting the wheel to hold during the burnout high rpm. Mind blown!

I gotta be honest, when you started I thought there was no way that would ever work. But boy am I so happy to be wrong.

The nuts on rods are the weakest link in this right now. Any cornering forces could result in them working their way through. One though I would suggest is making that area conical on the rim plate then make the lug ‘washer’ that fits it out of a much more exotic 3D printable material. It would function like a lug nut, or if you wanted you could potentially go make some metal ones which thread on and are one piece. If the spirit of the challenge is 3D printing methods for the finished part then literally using lost-pla casting could give you some aluminum or other alloy parts. Or if you take a look at same of the data of CNC kitchens results on threads. I bet if you reached out to him he’d be happy to test what the material load is on threads. Maybe you might be able to print some lug nuts that would hold up and spread the surface forces easier. Edit… first time on the channel you’ve already talked to him already. Well I guess that would make this suggestion easier. Lol

Sick Jon! Looking forward to the next video!

wow! I thought for sure it would break, but you made it work.

Been watching these for so long now, lol. Seeing you get this far is both excellent and funny as hell 🤣

i kinda want to see a gopro angle from underneath showing if the rim is deforming into the rotor or the caliper? very cool video tho really like the idea of using the abs glue personally ... i think i wouldve tried doing this with a smaller car less heavy and such very very cool though!!

This is why I've decided you are MY FAVORITE KZfaqR! You Crack me up my ribs are hurting from laughing!

Badass dude! I knew you would get it to work. Really glad so be along for this journey.

Another well made video. Looking forward to the road test.

Awesome - your persistence paid off!

That's cool, man! Hope you get all 4!

It's the steel reinforcement that made the difference. Awesome!

I'm so impressed with how far you have gotten this project, and the beard too... I remember when there wasn't much.

Working on a good rim has never been this exciting

Congrats man! That's some proper printing right there!

Wow man this is so much fun to see. Very impressed. Just insane how strong it is. 🙌

Congratulations your hard work paid off.

Outstanding results !

cam throw shot got you a follow that was funny perfect

@2:43 ROTFLMAO. I'm glad I understand Dutch. Nicely done in the end.

haha really great to see! nice progress! I would have a stain in my paints from the first part, but the second one it took like a champ!

Never doubted that you could do it. What an impressive journey to get to this point. Thanks for all the laughs.

Dude I love every bit of this video. Such emotion!

This is amazing the bolted approach was defo a good solution

congratulations! so impressed! well done!

MAking your own wheels is the sketchiest feeling automotive adventure. I made some steel ones once. The first few trips I drove clenched up, but they lasted until I got alloys. Waiting for the highway testing ;-)

Very Cool. BigRep has 3D printed not only wheels but also tires. Automotive Design & Prototyping Studios have started doing this for show cars and motorcycles.

What I like about this channel is that your not just printing silly little plastic crap, your actually experimenting with the tech

This was an awesome project! Congrats on your success!!

Have you tried longer bolts that would go through the rims? clamping pressure and maybe with thicker bolts. also smooth the rim out with acetone.

You originally started with the one piece rim, than you splitted it because the caliper, with other configurations (cars model) could you avoid to subdivide the rim? I'm wondering if the experiment can works also without rods and nuts...

Bad-ass! Gotta see how 4 3D printed wheels would hold up!

I wonder how light those are compared to the regular rims. Also I wonder if there is tougher plastic to use for this.

Zijwaartse druk bij een scherpe bocht of een rotonde is een i terressant testje! Ik had her eerlijk gezegd niet verwacht! Nice!

Having metal inside your tries sounds like a great idea 😄

Congrats man!!

I kept cringing waiting for it to explode lol Epic to see the car finally moving on it, very cool !

Soo cool. If only you had the space to try to drift it. Keep up the awesome work.

this is a really cool project and great channel

The only surprise to me was that you hadn't succeed sooner, made my day to see it in action!

Your channel is awesome! Great job!

The problem is that 3D printed stuff is weak on the layer boundaries. You have tried to solve this by holding it together with threaded rods, but that introduced some of its own failure points. My solution would be laser/CNC cut two large steel rings (going around the wheel), which can spread the force of the nuts on the two sides. This would be a mix of CNC and 3D print, but this way you can REALLY pre-tension the layers. The plastic can take massive amount of force in compression.

0:43 “fuck yeah” cracks me up every time!!! Bring on the montage… (time of writing 1:20)

"How are you feeling about ehh ?" "Meh ..." 🤣🤣🤣 This is one of the videos on which I can't stop laughing

14:12 i am smiling with you! Great Job and well done! Greetings!!!

Your projects are so proper but I'm just wondering about your tire blowing out losing control of the car and driving into your house or using a longer hose to fill it up for the initial pressure test. Maybe its a hindsight type of observation, good job!

Honest comment: this is one of those times where backyard ingenuity and experimenting may have actually unearthed an entirely new industry completely unrealised by anyone else. Abso-freaking-lutely fantastic.

Congrats you did it! very cool.

What a fantastic achievement! Great video!

I almost thought you weren't gonna make it but then BAM, here it is. Also I love how you had to translate all the weird slurs we use here :P

Alright then, time to make some rims for some big wide drag racing slicks!!!

could work though id feel safer using at least aluminium on the rim and an aluminium center with the printed center over it (basicly a gloryfied hubcap) allso next time youre going to pressuretest it lock the tire inflator open and put youreself and the compressor far away from it using a long hose , then set the pressure in bars with the pressure regulator on the compressor also because there brakes installed on the hubs theres going to be quite a bit of heat on the inside of the rim expanding the air in the tire and soften the plastic of the rim the treaded rod might hold better if you tap treads in the abs and glue them in (drive them in fast using a electric ratchet ) think you stand a better chance of succes and getting youre incestment back by printing replacement interior panels for older cars that are currently hard to find and print them on demand (save the files they take a lot less room )

Your videos are always such fun to watch. I haven't enjoyed learning this much since Mythbusters was on the air.

SUCCESS this is a milestone in FDM end uses congratulations

Should do them on a textured build plate so you could get cool designs on them rims. Like ornamental or carbon fiber mesh look

Glad i could help 🙏

2:39: Instant stance rim :'D

Should make a 100% infill tirel/rim combo with no air for drifting purposes

A pressure of 2 bars creates a separating force to the rim of roughly 1000kg, if my calculations are correct. Assuming it's not very close to breaking from just being pressurized, it's possible the rim can handle all driving conditions that normal tires can create with their limited friction.

I am sooo impressed! so much work - you should be proud! Russ from Ocala, Florida, USA

hahaha heel cool. Was blij dat die maat van je nog een echte burn-out er mee deed. haha sorry, dacht bij die van jou dat de koppeling eraan zou gaan hihi

Gaaf man, fantastische prestatie

I think you should use a smaller rod for it that dont contact with hub with break disc.

Is there an obvious reason I am missing to not have the threaded rod go through both halves with nuts holding them rather than glue?

Should have the wheel balanced at a shop an see if it needs it or just inherently balanced 🤔 also how much did it weight compared to the stock rim? 😁 such a cool project 😎 👌

Man, I love this channel.

This would be insane in drifting

Love the attitude

Great work 👍 Still, this rim will melt at high speed breaking or while driving in the summer. Be aware 😉

yes i had faith that you woukd be ablento figurebit out and get it to work.

This is really interesting can you try the carbon fiber composite filament it is a lit stronger and should be able to take higher temperatures...... How much does it weigh? I can't actually believe you was able to do a burnout on it.... Can you show the x-section structure of the wheel....

Well done sir !

Ha Jon, mooi project man. Gaaf om te zien dat t gelukt is! Alleen je burnout nog ff oefenen ;)