12mm to 17mm hex adaptors. Fitting large wheels to your RC car!

Hello you beautiful people.
My name's John.
Welcome to my channel! Today we have the wheel adapters that 
take it from a 12 millimeter hex to a 17 millimeter hex.   Effectively meaning that you can put these tires on any car like   this except there's one problem the reason that 
i bought these was because when i did my last   video i think about a couple of weeks ago testing 
out this theory it was suggested that i pick up   a set of these because these were better these 
were more user friendly so i bought them and i   had a quick test and i don't like them so save 
your money i will explain why let me just move   this up a little bit and get these out of the 
way for now stop stop stop stop and i move the   wheel extenders here okay this is effectively 
a 144001 but let's say it is the EACHINE EAT14 okay let me just take one of the wheels off there we go so that leaves the 12 millimeter 
hex you then put this on like so but this   actually locks it in you see because it's got 
thread on it so you put it on to locker oh as you see on this one and on most of the w toys 
most of the cars i own in fact the thread is far   too small as you can see so you 
can't use it on cars like that   good to know so we will go over to this 
one it is the what is it the EACHINE EAT04 There's been a lot of EACHINES lately! 🙂 I'll put 
it on the screen for you ( EAT04 ) so take this one off like so ta-da leaving a nice fresh 12 
millimeter hex so we put this one on like so   and we put that on and look it can now be 
tightened up fabulous which is great okay   now let me just move all of that out of the way so 
i'm now thinking this is brilliant excellent a lot   better system and because they actually tighten 
on to the actual shaft there's a lot less wiggle   so you put the wheel on all excited you 
didn't get it on of course come on like so you tighten everything up without a socket or spanner set because they all 
seem to be missing like so and obviously this one   has to be tight or else it'll all be 
loose and just fall apart as you know   so tighten that up and now as you can 
see the wheel just doesn't move very well and you've got the one that it was on oops right 
and it's just too tight what's actually happening   is when you're tightening this one 
up it's pushing the 12 millimeter hex   into uh the wheel um hub so i'll just take it 
off now and explain what's happening in detail   i was 99% convinced i had all my spanners 
and sockets here oops let's get that off   so what's effectively happening obviously 
that's in the way this one tightens up but once you tighten it it's pushing onto the hex 
which is then pushing onto the hub and it's just   not moving so absolutely useless because even if 
you were to use some thread lock on it you've got   to loosen it enough that it's then free here but 
then it's got the wiggle wobble on it so that all   four wheels are blur so again ladies and gents all 
i would suggest is do not bother save your money   and just buy slightly larger wheels 
so if you wanted like for example   larger wheels on any of your cars that have 
got 12 millimeter hex this has got a 12   millimeter hex so just buy a larger wheel let's 
be honest i think these were something like nine   nine uh no 10 USD i think when i bought 
them um and these is not not the specific wheel   but this sort of size you can pick up a set for 12-
13 us dollars so why go down that route when you   can just buy with a 12 millimeter hexa larger 
wheel that's my own opinion obviously there   are going to be some out there that uh have a 
different opinion but i just i can't see the logic   in going this way i i just can't i'm sorry so 
save your money buy something else hit that   like button subscribe to the channel and i'll 
catch you next time stay safe take care bye you

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