How to true tyres

This might be a silly question? how do you true tyres on the Mardave V12

same as other foam racers with a hudy truer or make your own

How do you make your own? Before I picked up my 'dave earlier this year the last time I trued a tyre I was fifteen, with a drill, a file and a right telling off by my mum for covering her kitchen in fine foam dust!

Is there a difference between the cheap(ish!) ones from Fastrax and the more expensive ones from,, say, Hudy?

There's a couple of tyre truers at ardent you can use.

I've seen some people using there Mardaves to true the tyres down, get someone to hold the throttle for you while you true them down!!

hence make your own . . . . there is a few ways to do it as per these posts

Just for the dave I wouldn't buy a one, but I am doing because I race 12th pan also. Getting them spot on is a bit more critical.

If you ever catch me around i will have my tyre turer with me

As it happens i trued my tires today, used a drill clamped to the kitchen surface.
took the axel out and but it in the drill and put a wheen on.
Used Emery paper, not ssand paper. i find emery paper better cus it dont smoke and the tires come out better.
No need to spend lots of money on gizmos, just use what you got at home

wicked . . . .

When i do another set i will make a video

Hi All

This is the truer I use, bought it off ebay a long time ago. I think this is the same unit that faxtrax sell.

Brilliant piece of equipment though, recommend to anyone. It takes the standard 8mm size arbour, so no problem buying or fitting different arbours to true different size or type wheels.

Although the cutter obviously only cuts along the flat, I use a foam pad with a course sheet of red abrasive taped to it too chamfer the edges.

One thing though, be careful with the dust, it is very messy, so wear a mask and best do outside.

Hope this helps Richie

ooooooooooooo found that body clip
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i just spent ages looking were you said the body clip now i can see it wicked thanks for the contribution Rich

Does the cutter need replacing regularly or is it quite hard wearing? I notice that the one I use at Ardent has a solid metal abrasive head rather than a blade like the Fastrax/Hudy ones. I'm guessing by your comment that this blade type doesn't produce any less dust..?

OK this has been a little awkward to take, but my blade is a little like a small piece of a course jigsaw blade, I had never needed to change the blade, still seems to cut fine although does labour more with the higher shaw rated tyres like 48-52 shore.

I don't see why I cannot use part of a jig saw blade as a replacement.

richie

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My blades look more like a hacksaw blade has been cut up!

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Yep same as I use just get the big hacksaw blade Put on saftey glass's place in a vice about 15 mm and then pull the rest towards your self and

SNAP

do a few and leave in ya box

I normally run 46-48 shore on the the front and pinks/pink soft on the rear.

Just square the rears off, take as little off as possible, basically the larger the rear tyre the better. I true the fronts to 48mm diameter which is reasonably small, if using softer fronts I would true to 49mm as these wear a little quicker.