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green-thumbs wrote:

Years ago I read an article in hobby magazine about making tires for model airplane. Not actual tire, but, more on order of an O ring to fit over a wheel. As I recall he made a mold and filled it with a rubber material and bakek it .
Apparently the right size O ring was not to be found. Making a square O ring would
be about same. Laugh as you may, some are making impellers, small items and
gas caps by similar low tech
high labor methods,
Louis

Louis, “baking rubber” reminds me of my
Creepy Crawler set I had back in the 1960’s.
My favorite thing was to make the huge spider
and scare my mom with it!
I went ahead and ordered 25-20812 o-ring from Ebay
for around $8, as that’s the replacement number M.E. gave.

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