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Searching for 6 inch Pneumatic tires and wheels

Does anyone know where to get 6 inch pneumatic wheels from. Common size is 8 but 6 seems hard to find. Found some in the states but they dont ship, they where only 7.99 US. Just like the wheels on trolleys and stuff 6 x 2 inch with a steel hub. Need to find a place that stocks them as they will get damaged from battle but better the wheels than the bot.
I think Acid test might have 6 inch wheels but not sure.
Hopfully somone might have a suggestion.
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Post Tue Jul 13, 2004 2:03 pm 
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Try bunnings or Mitre 10. Theres various sizes of nice large steel rimmed pnumatic tyres on 25 dollar trolley things. NOt sure exactly what there caled but there used for wheeling heavy things around and have large tyres with bearings etc in the. u get 2 and steel tube frame for 25 dollars.
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6" is a bit small for a pump-up tyre, can't recall ever seeing one. Is there no way to use a solid or foam wheel? the widest selection of useful wheels is at Robot combat and they defitely ship to Australia. You might also look at go-kart supply stores, I think they uses some very fat, small diameter wheels.
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Post Tue Jul 13, 2004 3:27 pm 
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They do exist but not in this Country. Unfortunate because they would be ideal, wanted them for a bit of suspension and for your spinning blade actually.
The robotcombat colson wheels are the second choice. Didnt really want a plastic centre. Will try os for another week before settling on something else. maybe should try to set urethane on a set of rims but need replaceable wheels as i want to run exposed wheels and be able to replace them easy.
I like exposed wheels, gives everyone a target and wheels look cool. Will run 4 on my lightweight so can afford to lose one in a battle hopefuly and still move,
Frustrating thing is have a web site with really cool wheels at 6 inch but they only ship in trhe US. Damm Yankees
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Post Tue Jul 13, 2004 4:03 pm 
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I know the type of wheels your talking about, I havn't seen them that small. I guess your talking about the type of wheels that are on Hellbringer 1 and 3. Hellbringer 3 had the smaller wheels which are 200mm dia. That the smallest pneumatic wheels we could find.
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I saw some at toyworld a few months back, they were for a scooter slightly larger than a razor scooter. I don't remember the exact size but they were close to 150mm. They are only narrow though, about 30mm wide with a tyre that looks more like its designed for leaning into corners, much like a "racer" style pushbike.
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Try http://www.robotcombat.com/marketplace_wheels.html
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Look here they have a good selection and their local.

www.fallshaw.com.au
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Thought I would finish this thread as my search is over.

Gave up for a while on these but it all worked out in the end, today actually.

Would have prefered to by local but they simply dont exist in this country and I was real keen to have this type of wheel. In the end it is costing me the same as if I went into a local shop that sells wheels and bought an 8 inch. Usually i try to keep costs down but trying to build something quite ultra cool and quite visualy striking so wheels really help.

The funny thing is that i had searched on the web for a while and found a site that had the ideal wheels from Northerntools which later I found is one of the suppliers of wheels to RobotCombat.

They start at 8 inchs on the site if you enter from robot combat but as i came into the site from a different search came accross them as a replacement item and thus ends my search for 6 inch pneumatic wheels.

THeres a pic of one in my builders report
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Hey George, we were having a good chat about these wheels at robowars II and we have now decided we deffently need some. My brother wants about 4 for Loki and I need one for a design I'm working on, plus a few spares. But before then I need a few numbers if possible.
1 - The diameter of the shaft.
2 - The width accross the bearings
3 - The P.C.D of the bolts holding it together.
4 - And of corse the weight.

US$7.99 on the web site, but AU$26 by the time they got here. Still very tempting.

Reread the post and I'm a bad speller.
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Shaft diameter 1/2 inch
Width 60mm
PCD??? \Forgot what that was, guessing stud pattern. 54mm from stud to stud running through centre.
weight 670gms complete. THink have mine down to 540.

Had link of page but not working atm. Noticed their web site down from RCM as well so might have to email JIm maybe and see whats happening with them.
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Sorry, habit.
P.C.D = Pitch Circle Diameter. You got it right.
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Source for small pneumatic wheels in Australia

I had to find 6inch to 8-inch wheels really quickly and I found some local sources.
4" 6" 8" wheels
http://www.coxengineering.com.au/category/2207/lemcol-wheels--castors

8" wheels
http://www.4theshed.com.au/Category/3717-trolleys.aspx

Cox Engineering seems the best bet so far.

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