Home made rubber tracks

[LarryW]

Those are some wicked looking tracks. I like the guides. Nice Job!

[Obsessed]

Great looking set of tracks smog...looking forward to more videos of you playing in the deep snow...wish we had a back yard like that to play in :-)

Thanks for sharing

[argoford]

Very nice great job.

[smog]

Do you have a contact number for the machine shop who made the guide?

you are way better have it cut and bent locally; the weight of the track guides will just kill any deal.

there are laser cutting machine everywhere; just ask around and make sure you ask at least 3 quotation as pricing will vary wildly.




I bent the guides myself using a self-made tool like this one :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vwacbaOXjU

it was easy

[smog]

Smog,

What size tires did you end up using? Did you use any bearing extensions?

I'm on the 50$ Maxxis 4snow tires 24" @ 5psi . (sold as 22x10x8) no bearing extension used but I MAY built a tie-bar like RI is doing

[micmac]

What is the width of the tires? At 24" you must have done some tub modifications? Thanks for the track guide template!

[smog]

10" for the tire width and yes I had to push back up the low part just behind the front seat. Easy to do and hard to spot for most people.

[sherman]

Thanks for the dimensions, and again a really great job

[highrollinmopars]

Any chance you have tried to swim with them yet? I wonder how they would compare to the adair tracks?

[smog]

the track profile got a lot of paddles but I'm not sure it will swim a lot. It's a winter track set optimized for ice and snow. Right now there's no open waters to test any swimming abilities; next time to test it in water will be in April/May.

So if your goal is to get a set of swimming tracks, better get the Adair system. (even more if you are in SC)

[sparkola]

What would you recommend is the best way to cut a rubber track?

[George]

That's really cool SMOG. Very nice.

[smog]

What would you recommend is the best way to cut a rubber track?

may not be the best but I used this :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reciprocating_Saw.JPG

[sparkola]

LOL The Sawsall!!!! Love it. I have been pondering just taking a snomobile track like yours and cutting a double paddle section and fastening to my Supertrackes like every other track segment. I think I could end up with similar traction results as you did. I think the Supertracks are a good base(mounting) to attach rubber track sections to. They don't weigh that much and I would reduce the weight of the rubber by only using half. A plastic track segment has to weigh half of what an even sized piece of rubber track does so the overall result would prolly weigh less than a fully rubber track, no?

[micmac]

Smog,

I noticed you offset the track so the extra non tire contact area is toward the inside of the tub rather than on the outside. Was there a practicle reason for doing it that way? I was thinking I would want it the other way to get more spacing between the track and tub. What am I missing?