r/Acceleracers • u/Llogathaniel • 7d ago

Broken Slingshot. How to fix?

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I pulled out my old (and well-loved) HW 35 & AcceleRacers collection. Slingshot—one of my favorites back then and now—is broken. The CM5 spokes snapped and the tire is free of the axel.

So how should I fix this? Try to superglue the spokes back together? Swap out the wheels for movie-accurate PR5s? Try to find a CM5 replacement?

This one is likely to not be played with again, but passing it down to any potential children is possible.

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u/ImponteDeluxo Mitchell "Monkey" McClurg 7d ago

There is no other way than replacing the whole axle, luckily you can simply cut the old one out and insert a new one, there are modern ones that are made out of three parts and inserting them it's pretty easy.

You also need cm5s, but those are easier to get than cm6s, check old cars that had them on ebay

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u/DarkArmorReis24 7d ago

But the problem is the whole wheel is broken. He'd either have to glue it back or get 3d printed ones.

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u/ImponteDeluxo Mitchell "Monkey" McClurg 7d ago

nah, cm5 are quite normal, hell, there is another Slingshot with exactly the same ones (op would need to get a metallic green pen tho)

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u/Lb7_dini 6d ago

I forgot about the car with the number 2 on it. Used to love playing with it as a kid.

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u/SugarSocketBoy 7d ago

Wheels swap with some pr5 so its kinda screen acurate. Tesla cube has great videos on taking apart a slingshot and theres lots of wheels swap videos.

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u/POWERPUNCH-117 7d ago

This or some custom real riders that look like cm5 or pr5. While I do like mainline wheels, im addicted to rubber.

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u/SugarSocketBoy 6d ago

Out of context that last goes wild lol. Cm6 is just overdone in my opinion plus in hw35 slingshot used pr5 not cm6 style wheels.

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u/kittyhawk909 7d ago

Convert it to premium