[quote=“Litppunk, post:1750, topic:5570”]i am not saying these things should be implemented in this way. They were listing parts of a tire so I “helped” Having to build all these things DF style is not really the goal of CDDA…necessarily. I was given the impression this was more for deconstruction anyways. For player built tires the build should probably go a different route. Perhaps “early” game player build able wheels should actually be more like wagon wheels, and some later versions be modeled more like rover type wheels with bowed sheet metal type spokes that go out to overlapping pieces of metal that act like a wheel with built in shocks. <-crap idea not really relevant to anything (this is the color I shall use in the future when I post things like this)
In a post apoc world its just more realistic to scavenge for tires than to build your own for most anything you plan to do. Best a survivor could likely do without finding and figuring out how to operate a tire factory, would be to construct some sort of special heated rig to melt rubber and then spin it using the motor from a washing machine or something while it cooled to keep it in the appropriate tire shape. The washing machine would need to have the clothes bin replace by a donut shaped metal ring with a flat outside. This would result in a Very low quality “tire” (probably firestone equivalent or maybe even worse) that I have no idea how you would seat or do anything productive with, especially air up. Bolt it on or something maybe? Or maybe make specialized rim with a larger lip around the outside of the rim than a normal rim would have
In any case it is just impractical to make tires in the apocalypse when there are so many factory made ones that are better than anything one could make laying around waiting for a working car to use them. Therefore any tire crafting recipes would just be for people wanting to make a post apoc death machine from nothing but scrap material just to say they did, and would not affect actual gameplay in any REAL way.[/quote]
I wasn’t really saying that tires should be craftable either, Just that they ARE a significant source of materials in SHTF. rubber to match pitch, seal holes or cracks, make noxious smoke, etc. all the misc wire or spokes, etc. bearings, hubcaps to make noise traps with,blah blah blah…the best a survivor would likely ever need to craft is already in the game as a banded wooden wheel.
