Shonen's brushless projects

[Shonen]

Kind of stagnant, brushless project wise...but I keep shredding my Gorilla Taped tires on the ERBE.


at first I just thought it was a bad finishing job, ie. where the tape overlaps


but then I realized that it happens on two sides of the tire


I will overlap this one more next time...

also, my new 1717 ceramic bearings came in. we shall see if they are indeed the right size.



How do you guys tape tires? Is two strips usually okay or do you guys double up?

ps. an interesting find by my friend while we went drifting this weekend:

the O-rings on my friend's Cyclone TC spool disintegrated (as you can probably tell by the existing O-ring) and he lost the locking pin. I gave him one of my TC5R's body clips, and strangely/luckily enough, it works. It doesn't fly out and it seems to be holding up fine.

pps. also, I'm wondering which method you guys use to remove tires from rims...I've been using CA debonder for the past several times, and this past weekend I tried the freezer method...which didn't work :s I left the tire in there for several days too.