No axles, no cranks, no mess. Just drop in your tires and press a button!
No axles, no cranks, no mess. Just drop in your tires and press a button!
Off road and dirt oval R/C racers need clean tires for every race to be at the top of their game. Washing tires at the track can be hit or miss with each facility. At best, you will get a wash tub and a scrub brush, and at a big race, you may stand in line. The Drop In tire washer lets you quickly wash your tires without leaving your pit area and takes the drudgery out of tire washing!
My name is Bob Mellen. I am a former business owner who enjoys racing R/C cars since I retired from the working world in 2012. I have raced 1/10 and 1/8 off-road and switched to dirt oval racing a few years ago.
The idea of a better way to clean RC tires became obvious to me while standing in line at the wash station of my local RC track many years ago. I spent my career programming, repairing and building CNC machine tools and wondered why there wasn't a better way to do this!
My first tire washer was hacked together from a bunch of left over parts and sprayed water everywhere, but it worked and proved the concept of using a sprayer and rollers instead of brushes to clean a tire. It was bulky, and would have been expensive to reproduce, but it worked. Another model based on a 5 gallon pail floated around in my brain for a while, but again proved impractical.
While shopping in a sporting goods store a few years ago, I saw the orange dry box that I use today, and the Drop In R/C Tire Washer was born. It was portable, tidy, reproducible and a hit with my fellow racers. It continues to evolve and I hope you find it a welcome addition to your racing enjoyment.