Dead Rubber

Some pics taken during the painstaking task of trying to salvage some rims from dead rubber. Read a bunch of threads online on how to try and bake, boil or “chemically melt” the rubber off the rims but ended up doing none of these, simply pulled them out and then tried our best to cut the residual rubber off the with a hobby knife…

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and after some cleaning and sorting, here is the current stock of tyres for the M03 and 1/10 touring cars (TL01 and Afrika’s Kyosho Petrol Car)

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