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Esci's M60 road wheels, how can I duble them?
carman
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Posted: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 - 08:38 PM UTC
hey, I have the pretty good esci's M60 model.
In this model the road wheels are single wide wheel and not duble wheels.
I saw that couple of guys did it here and there,
how can i change them to be double wheel?
I have little background in scratching and all that but didn't get the perfect way to do it.
thank you very much.

Daniel/
by the way- after market kits are not an option.

thanks.
Sabot
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Posted: Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 12:56 AM UTC
Here's a link to an article I did on the ex-Esci Abrams. It suffers from the same road wheel problem the M60 does. http://armorama.kitmaker.net//features/149

It is a fairly simple solution that looks adequate.
carman
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Posted: Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 02:34 AM UTC
Thank you very much!
well this is the thing I wanted to do, I thought maybe there is another one.
I have pretty good idea how to make it.

If anyone has another way I will be very happy to hear it.

thank you very much.
All the best.
sabredog
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Posted: Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 03:14 AM UTC
Another method would be to chuck the road wheel into a mounted hobby drill acting as a lathe. You can then make a groove in the wide wheels.

Cheers

Mike
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Posted: Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 04:12 AM UTC
ay aftermarket wheels instead? I like the easy way
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Posted: Friday, February 08, 2008 - 12:09 PM UTC
Daniel,

Here is a link that you may also find helpful in solving the double wheel problem with the ESCI wheels with a good tip on keeping the groove in the same location during the process of modification to achive the double wheel.

http://www.onthewayuk.com/articles/AMedeESCIWheelGrooves.htm

Hope this will help you and any one else faced with the same situation.

-Eddy
carman
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Posted: Friday, February 08, 2008 - 02:54 PM UTC
Thank you Eddy, this is the thing I wanted to do!
by the way, I was in California, very lovely place .
How is the weather now?
here in Israel it is like summer outside

thank you very much, Daniel.
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