Kraken RC Releases Billet Aluminum 24mm Wheel Hexes for Proline Tires
High-confidence date (2025-01-16) places this release over a year before crawler first-seen date, making it stale news, not this week's story. Additionally, Kraken RC is an unknown brand never featured on the show, so per calibration guidance it should score toward the bottom and not exceed 55. It is a crawler component (wheel hexes for Proline tires), which is on-theme, but the combination of staleness and unproven brand caps it well below the crawler component range.
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Kraken RC has introduced billet aluminum 24mm wheel hexes (KRC201) machined from T6061 aluminum, designed to replace stock Proline hexes that strip or break under high power. Sold as a set of two, they fit Proline 1/6 scale Badlands MX57, Trenchers, Mashers, Menace, and Dumont tires, and are recommended for 12S setups on VEKTA.5E Ultras or big bore engine builds. Priced at $39.99.