The oven method worked perfect!! 350 for ten minutes. Took me less than 5 minutes to remove all 4 tires!! Thank you!!!

Heatgun method; Use a heat gun in the lowest setting and start to apply heat where the rim and the tire meet until you hear the glue making a cracking sound and start dismounting the tire with caution ⚠️ (safe for plastic rims).

baked 4 traxxas canyon tires @ 350 for 10 mins. while i worked on one, i left the other in the still warm oven. too 10 mins to get all 4 tires off rims. Great video thank you!

Thanks for that. the method I settled on was. 20 minutes to the hobby shop, bang new tires.

What is good about this video is the Traxxas tire that comes with the cars is a very good tire. I used a heat gun and I rotate it until the rim starts to smoke. Then I get something to poke at the edge and it comes right off. 👌🏽

Boiling tires works pretty good, my method is almost as you did with your blow dryer. Let one side of the bead boil. Don’t squeeze the tire, which will cause water to be sucked into the foam. Let the water do the work, boiling from the outside. Another thing is, my wife let me use the big lobster boiling pot, that way you can boil all tires at one time . Once you get one bead unseated, flip them and throw them back in. For a set of four tires it took us about 30 minutes . No tears to the tire, no hot water scalding your face 🤣 but I’m not a “do it my way is the best way guy” whatever way you get them off to save some 💵 that’s great 😁 sharing ideas is what it’s all about . Thank you for sharing ! 👍👍

Method timestamps: Hair Dryer 0:30 Baking 2:03 Boiling 5:10 Acetone 6:12

I had no idea a hair dryer could do the job! Ill have to give it a shot !

Boiling will discolor your wheels if they are chrome and has a tendency to ruin the foams. The way I do it I wrap the wheel/tire assembly in foil like a baked potato. Preheat your oven to 300 then turn off. Place your wrapped tires in the oven for 15 minutes. Remove from oven and pop the tires off the wheels. Doesn't damage the wheels, tires or foams. Wrapping in foil helps hold the heat in as compared to just laying an open wheel/tire on a sheet of foil.

Use a heat gun instead of a hair dryer. Better temperatures for heating up tire and my wife does not kill me for using the oven.

When i do boil my tires I normally put them in cold water immediately and let them cool the tires come off without a problem

Amazing, just did the heatgun and worked very well! Thanks!

Great presentation. Thanks for sharing and saving me some heartache. Like the hairdryer method.

I put a promoto-x tire and wheel in my hot air fryer for 10 min @ 330 F. The tire all but fell off the rim, and was not distorted! The wheel also was perfect! Just make sure to remove your bacon first!

I've done the baking process a couple of times and it has worked pretty good for me, on stock tires, I've never tried it on tires that I glue my self because I only glue short course truck tires and when it's time to replace them, the wheels are also pretty beat up.

The best Acetone method is to use a 5 gallon pail with a lid. Put the tires in the pail and in the center of the pail, put in a glass of Acetone (don't soak the tires in it). The fumes from the Acetone do a much better job than actually putting the tires in the Acetone. Leave it overnight and the next day, they come off much easier and with the least amount of damage. Though, there is glue residue on both the wheel and tire. Just need to bend the bead around and flick the glue off (if you want).

As a new RC ..dude? this really helps. Thanks

Thanks for the comparision of the 4 methods it seems the heat gun or oven do the best job will try both .Have a few to work on now hahaha

those BF's are my dream rc crawler tires lol, I used to have those on my jeep. great tires!

Excellent video!

I've used a bowl of water and microwave. Use about 1 quart of water. Place rim with tire and let float DO NOT SINK! Set microwave to 7 minutes let sit after it stops for 3 minutes peel off flip and repeat Did this on a set of brand new Duratrax worked perfect

This gone be good

Good tips👍have not yet had to Remove Glued tires yet but I will definitely use that baking method😀

My favorite way, and probably the most fun, is to just put them old tires on your fastest rig, take it to the track, and drive it like you stole it. Those tires come unglued super quick. The even more reliable way to make sure the tires come unglued is to do this in the pre-qualifier on race day.

Bead locks are the easiest way, only 3 hours per wheel to pull all the screws, change tires and put the screws back in

Last time I tried the baking method the rims melted

Nice vid. To avoid the hustle...I buy new ones,and the “unwanted”,I will use them from time to time on my CROWLER,depending on what surface I run.

Baking worked a treat👍

Pretty good video:)

Got to have this video in the arsenal..! Killer.! Well done.! Had no idea that you can just use heat..! Sure it's a pain in the ass, but it works.! BTW, I was screaming at the TV as u were pulling the wheel out of the boiling water.. LOL.!

I have 6 or 7 cars right now and usually 2 or 3 sets of wheels and tires for each car so the acetone method works for me because I've got plenty of time to let a set of tires soak in a container that is sealed. I don't like the way the heating methods stretch the bead of the tire anyway. But a lot of people are in way too much of a rush to wait for anything....... You know what they say about instant gratification... ,.....it takes to long!!!!🙃

I Put them in a steamer for half hour or acetone method but using fumes to break down the glue, not the liquid itself

Great tips man!! Appreciate your time, and research!!

Subscribed! Thanks for the help!

I took mine to discount tire shop. Free repair lmao

Thanks for the awesome tips! I'll personally be boiling mine. It actually seems to be the safest, most clean, and natural way for the wheels, themselves. As for personal danger, I'll just use the ole 2% rule.

Great work dude just subbed✌

I love the boiling method I give each side 30 minutes. Once done I dunk it in my sink already full with water, finally work it loose.

I just put mine under my 2000w halogen lamps for ten mintes.works a treat

I did all four of my Revo tires using the acetone method in a bucket in a few hours. Mind you I wasn't in any huge rush. The one thing I didn't like was how much the foam inside the tires soaked up. This was my 1st time ever taking tires off the rim. From a newbie beginner point of view I thought it worked great if you're not in a rush.

Sweet video bro, maybe you could get Frank to combine the methods by boiling them in acetone in the oven, and using the blow dryer to dry out the acetone when it is squirting out of the wheel during removal........I'll be waiting to watch with a nice bag of popcorn 🤣

Oven method worked perfect for me, although I highly recommend that you do not use you home oven, lots of smoke and fumes. I used a portable toaster/ bake oven. I’ve also tried acetone, it was only slightly helpful.

Great video...

I knew people that used the boiling method years ago. Although I don't know how precisely they did it, obviously you want to keep the wheel's breather hole facing down/away from you. I have some Losi Super Rock Rey tires I need to remove, thinking I'll try the heat gun method.

Thank You friend

Cool video 👍I use a heat gun and a pair of welding gloves

Awesome thank you

NC MOUNTAINS ❤. Really nice video.. . 👌!!👍👍......

The factory Nitto tires on my SCX10 were pretty rigid but after I boiled them they softened up real nice. Feel similar to my proline mud terrains

Great work man.... Yeah oven at 350 I think works the best. 👌🏻👍🏻

I've tried all but acetone. Boiling, i agree is too dangerous. Baking just makes the house stink. But I just realized... I moved and still have a week at the old place... I'm baking tires there tonight 🤣🤣👊🏿

Thanks for the great video!! Best video I have seen on this topic. I have done the Acetone version, and if your are not in a rush it will work. Gonna give this a few shares :-)

Interested to see what the next episode is on.

The tire looked a little deformed after the baking method. Did you try re-installing it on to the rim to check if it’s ID is still the same?

I used a heat gun in the past. Faster than a hair dryer. Can cause damage to chrome finishes. I'll put thought to the oven next time. Acetone will remove chrome and from what I understand kills the foam. I'm also considering getting some acetone to do a bulk batch of tire removals where I actually cut the tire off the rim leaving behind a small ring, in order to save the foam. Those tires weren't worth saving.

Thanks I hope this will wrk for the little scx24 tires

One of my tires had a silicone based glue and boiling it it peeled right away the other ones are done with a super glue so I'm hoping the baking works for me

The acetone worked good for me but it didn't take days. I left the tires soaking in a bucket and every so often I would go out and work them loose. Had them all done in a matter of an hour, maybe. I didn't time it and was doing other RC stuff while they were soaking.

So trying acetone got one to come apart quick but having trouble with number 2 I was holding up out of acetone I had heard that that worked but now I have idea I will update later

Thanks for the vid, however, I'm surprised the oven method didn't harm the foam. The OEM foam in my TRX-4 tires was ruined apparently from just running my RC on the hot desert sun-baked rocks in mid-summer. I've been wanting to try aftermarket tires and duel stage foam on the aforementioned set I replaced.

Good testing! I was surprised by the hair dryer. Baking is cool cause you can throw some cookies in with in! I just put the tires on a tray in the bbq so I don’t stink up my house. Same concept though as baking.

This is the best video I’ve seen on this topic! Thanks for getting boiling water and acetone in your eyes in the name of science! I wonder if anyone has tried Super Glue Remover?

I did 15 min at 400 and it seemed to work well with traxxas tires

Thats one hell of a hair dryer

Velineon brushless and 3s lipos,takes about 10-15 minutes,is relatively not dangerous and fun until it keeps happening unintentionally.

I melted my exceed rc rims when trying the 350 for 7min. Deformed them pretty bad. Luckily I was removing the tires to use on my new rims.

Im try this one some old Tmaxx pro .15 tires.

Awesome! Thanks for doing all that research and sharing it. I'm new to RC, so I hope you don't mind a question. What is the best way to re-glue the tires to the rim? That is, if you glue them. If so, what type of glue? Thanks!

So question on that, if you have white lettering on the tire, does it remove or mess that up? It didn’t look like it was readable after any of the methods.

thx

steam from an iron worked great

I tried acethone + knife and force. 1 tire is nearly unusable, but 3 tires are nearly undammaged.

New to the hobby, tried the baking method on some 1" tires only went 7min at 350° ..... melted my rims......🤦🏻‍♂️

It never took me days with acetone. Like an hour per tire they basically fell off. But I use the baking method just because I got a toaster oven in the garage that I use for sculpey

Just realized the back round is rc scale lmao 😂

what about steaming with lid closed above water .

I want to reuse my plastic rims and they have a colored bead printed on it, if i use the baking method does the paint come off in any way or it'll stay?

4 wheels fit perfect in an air fryer. 350 for 8 minutes. They popped right off

I am currently baking my tires. It took me two years to figure out reusing rims is.. a thing. Let's see if the rubber comes off

My house is so crappy I cannot run a hairdryer without popping the main.... Even with everything else shutdown.....

I've heard that icoprpoalchol works but haven't had a chance to try it

Good video. I run all my tires with no vents so that h2o doesn't get inside of my tires. Can you tell if the methods you liked the best can lock out the h2o from touching the foams?

Good show ...needs your helper frank

After that can we use the tyre again? I want to change the foam not the tyre

Here’s a thought. What about a candle warmer/hot plate?! One you can crank the temperature up or down on. That may work and be mess free.

If it's a plastic chrome wheel, will any of these methods ruin the chrome finish?

Put your tires in closed container of acetone 48 hrs later pull off the tire from the rim

I used the acetone method work well imo... soaked the one side @ a time, let it sit 30 min. Each side. They peeled right off... flipped, repeat. No damage. The wife won't let me use her oven lol

Soaked my Tamiya rims in acetone for 3 days, the tyres were fine bit the rims had distorted and were unusable.

I just tried the oven method and it jacked up my rims.. 350 degrees at 7 mins I heard a pop noise

Isnt Aceton melting plastic and rubber too?

Very informative, but myvi used tire glue to hold down a speed controller now I need to remove it. In my situation what do think which one one would work best for me thanks

I tried using Acetone to remove my Clodbuster tires from the original white plastic wheels. The wheels completely melted. This method will not work on Clod wheels.

for oven method do you have to do 1 at a time or put all 4?

thanks for sharing bro. the boiling method isnt just dangerous, it doesnt work most of the time! boiled dboots katars for 30mins - does NOT come unglued! just buy new wheels!!

What if its on chrome wheels? These methods will ruin the tire?

how does those methods work w/ plastic rims?

What would u use for gluing them back

Great video, thanks for posting. I’ve heard about another method and that is by using a steamer (rice/vegetable steamer). It looks like a cheap and kitchen friendly method... Did you ever try it?

The oved method made some bad fumes, felt lightheaded for a bit 😬