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Title: road tyres or wheels
Post by: subs1 on December 11, 2011, 07:38:27 pm

I am  looking for a source of 100mm  dia x 30mm wide  ( 4"  x  1 1/4 " ) tyres for an amphibious vehicle , which is my next project ?
Can anyone point a finger in the right direction . I found one in germany  ( http://www.barnhausen.de/  ) which has the tyres and wheels but they dont want to reply to Emails ( two sent and no reply ) .
Rergards, Malcolm  NZ

Title: Re: road tyres or wheels
Post by: grasshopper on December 11, 2011, 09:11:10 pm

Have you thought of using  off road wheels and tyres from a 1/8th scale nitro buggy, 1/10th short course truck or a rock crawler ? I'm not sure what the exact sizes are but they're pretty close to your mentioned dimensions and available at English model shops...huge variety of wheels and tread tread patterns etc,

Title: Re: road tyres or wheels
Post by: hopeitfloats on December 15, 2011, 10:42:27 am

malcolm have you tried play concepts on colombo st. they are mainly into planes but have some cars etc and if they dont have it they do actually try to help. might be worth a call.  the warehouse might even be worth a look.

Title: Re: road tyres or wheels
Post by: subs1 on December 15, 2011, 10:35:42 pm

Quote from: hopeitfloats on December 15, 2011, 10:42:27 am

malcolm have you tried play concepts on colombo st. they are mainly into planes but have some cars etc and if they dont have it they do actually try to help. might be worth a call.  the warehouse might even be worth a look.
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Yes checked them oput and acorn , bunnings , placemakers and Mitre 10 who had some red ( yuck ) 95mm wheels with black non trrad tyres . So I have bought 6 to try out .
Guess thats the best I can do at the moment . Next is a small 29mm sprocket to fit mt small chain . Gonna annoy some of our Model engineer guys as I know some of the dissmantlerd a couple of OLD photo copiers yerars ago .
Thanks Malcolm   NZ

Title: Re: road tyres or wheels
Post by: MikeA on December 15, 2011, 10:51:23 pm

the size your looking for is 1/5 scale rc car parts
vid here to get an idea of the wheel size:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxdEHb6HFwc

you could try this place:

http://www.zon.com.tw/products/RC-racing-tire.html

Title: Re: road tyres or wheels
Post by: subs1 on December 16, 2011, 06:06:28 am

thanks Mike , but going off the pics , the tyres will be too wide ( need 1 1/4" " )
regards Malcolm  NZ

Title: Re: road tyres or wheels
Post by: HS93 (RIP) on December 16, 2011, 09:59:41 am

what wheels and tyres does the Deans DUKW kit use, I think they may be graupner from there truck range http://www.graupner.de/en/products/6b9cfbb8-6d3b-439d-8559-36562b035892/productcategory.aspx

Title: Re: road tyres or wheels
Post by: subs1 on December 16, 2011, 05:54:41 pm

Quote from: HS93 on December 16, 2011, 09:59:41 am

what wheels and tyres does the Deans DUKW kit use, I think they may be graupner from there truck range

Now isn't that dumb that I didn't even think to contact Deans Marine direct to sk about their wheels !!
Definitely a DUH moment !!
Malcolm  NZ

Title: Re: road tyres or wheels
Post by: subs1 on December 16, 2011, 08:25:21 pm

I have sent anm Email to Deans Marine asking about the wheels HOPEFULLY they will reply .
I also checked out Robbe and Graupner but haven't seen the size I need yet
Malcolm  NZX

Title: Re: road tyres or wheels
Post by: HS93 (RIP) on December 16, 2011, 11:15:20 pm

Just thought it may have been Robbe who they get them off

http://www.robbe.de/man-tga-xxl-8x4-4-schwerlast-szm.html#

Title: Re: road tyres or wheels
Post by: subs1 on December 17, 2011, 01:36:33 am

(http://s7.postimage.org/bv292s413/8070a.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/bv292s413/)
This is what I am looking for at 100mm dia and 35mm wide or there abouts .
Thanks for all the suggestions and I am checking them all out .
Regards , Malcolm  NZ