wheel mod with my xt shaver

[majorhavoc]

I recently was wondering how I could shave some weight off a pair of stock matched wheels that had bought, after practicing with my new xt wheel shaver which is a awesome too, I decided to mod the extra blade that i bought with it to cut and make the wheel have a H pattern , so I grinded the blade with a dremal stone to .200 wide in the middle of the blade after doing the initial wheel prep with the shaver I went to town with my modified blade and shaved the wheels and they really look good but i didnt stop there I recently saw some wheels on a web site where they drilled 4 holes around the wheel hub so I made a pattern marked them with a T pin between the letters and the ring and started drilling I finished with a 5/16 bit I then balanced the wheels and wow they look really cool after the drilling and shaving the wheels weighed 2.3 grams Iam going to try them out on a open class car .

[derbydominator]

Sounds like some nice work Havoc! Pretty good weight reduction and that will certainly give you a faster start. Curious as to what a T pin is though. Welcome to the boards!

[majorhavoc]

I use t pins to hold down balsa wood when building r/c airplanes, I also use the iron covering instead of paint very light. ;D