1/10th Scale Drift Tires

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For our local Maker Expo we have a large area where we can have the visitors drive around a RC drift car. This is our second year doing it and the second revision of our 3d printed drift wheels and tires and like to demonstrate to those in attendance that you don't always have to purchase items commercially available. These wheels and tires held up to 5 hours of constant abuse and crashing into the drift barriers. Main picture shown on a Traxxas 4tec 2.0, and should work very well for any 1/10th scale car with 12mm hexes where the tire is wider in the rear. We used PLA for the wheel and TPU for the tire. There is a line on line fit so the tire can be pressed on the wheel and not need to be glued. There is also a groove and ridge for the tire and wheel to mate. When printed on the same printer the fit should be tight enough that no glue is necessary. If they are loose, shrink the tire with a heat gun or hair drier constantly rotating the tire for a few minutes. Snugging them up this way worked very well for us. Supports for the wheel, but not for the tire. For right and left simply mirror the file in your favorite slicer, we were using Slic3r PE.