Desser and Aircraft Spruce are marketing a kitfox tire (20/700-8 Nanco). It is a two ply and only rated fore 192#. Seems lightweight to me. Anyone have experience with these tires?
Desser and Aircraft Spruce are marketing a kitfox tire (20/700-8 Nanco). It is a two ply and only rated fore 192#. Seems lightweight to me. Anyone have experience with these tires?
People have been running the smooth, 20x12x8" Nanco/Nanking tires for years on the early, lighter Kitfoxes. They work well and are very economical. Usually can be found for $50 or less on line if you look around. Desser's price of $110 each is quite high.
I haven't found any other tires for 8" wheel that aren't really large, like 27's. Don't want to go that large. Replacing 16.6/6.5-8 on IV-1200 with 912UL. Any leads?
thanks,
Wallmart.com (USA only) has them for cheap. $44.15
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Nanco-N800-21-12-8/55346860
For you Canadians (like me) I had them sent to the nearest Walmart to me in the USA (Niagara Falls) and crossed the boarder to pick them up.
I have run the Nanco tires you linked.
They work just fine. I have no complaints.
Being a 2 ply they wear a little quicker then others if your hard on breaking or trying to hard turn it.
But with how cheap they are, can't complain. I got about 100 hrs out of mine before I needed to replace and prior to that I have no idea how long they were run. And most of that wear was a lot of high speed taxing when I was learning the plane.
I know that my cherished friends are running these NANCO'S; and I also built my Model IV-1200 with them installed. But that load rating worked on my head during the build. Putting a 1,200 pound aircraft on those light weight Nancos was too much after I finished my Weight and Balance. I went looking.
There are very few options. I settled on the Trac Gard Straight Rib 18x9.50-8 /4pr. The load rating is 1,040 pounds. I was able to buy two, for a wee less than $100, including tax and shipping. (Ebay, "gigatires") Super fast shipping. That is one less thing to think about during Phase 1.
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Grover Wright
Flying a KF IV-1200
ROTAX 912UL
Mine are wiggly. But then I think all of the fatter tires are from the sounds of it. JImChuk