Agree with the others ..... Acetone is most effective ...... Tried boiling and heat gun and it either didn't remove the glue or warped the rims ......

mini oven 15 quid from aldi. cut most of tyre off. stick rims in for 10 mins at 150 and the tyre bead peels off easy.

Cardiff on using the oven unless you want to gas the house with cyanide

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21737219

Like others have said, I cut as much tyre from the rim, remove the inserts, and leave in acetone. I find a few hours is good enough to get the tyre off.

I then wait for the glue to re-harden then scrape with the edge of a scalpel, finish up with a toothbrush and a quick spray and wipe with motor cleaner.

I get my acetone from home bargains, they sell pure acetone in small bottles for £1 for 150ml of which I use about 75ml for a large batch of tyres.

Sealable bucket, acetone, fill bucket, leave for a week, peal off tyres, let inserts dry, clean wheels, job done.

I never bother cutting tyres and removing inserts, just throw them in and let the acetone do the work. Handy if you've got a few sets of wheels.

I've recently been using Handy foam gun cleaner, its basically acetone in a spray can and works really well stripping off tyres in 24hrs when used in a sealed box.

Thanks guys....been refurbishing my '92 RC10 stealth and, wanting to reuse the original wheels, needed to get the old Losi X patterns off. So, got some acetone put just a small amount in a sealable tub with a pair of wheels. Left for two days and the tyres come straight off, the rims cleaned with a little of the acetone on a cloth and rims as good as new.! :thumbsup: Yes I know the glue was 25 years old but the tyres were still well stuck..
Never removed old tyres before but will not hesitate again.