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I vote for:

• The original car list
• Orange Endbell FC-130 Slot.IT Motors only 
• Inline Setup Only
• Any gears (They are basically all the same and SCX are cheaper)
• Yellow Dog or Slot.it tires

 

 

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• Porsche 962 
• Porsche 956 
• Mercedes Sauber C9 
• Jaguar XJR9 
• Jaguar XJR12 
• Lancia LC2 
• Mazda 787B 
• Toyota 88C

 

 

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There is also this guy: https://www.whiteysslotcarboxes.com/services.html, his boxes seem to be very nice, but I’m not confortable with the price 😕 .

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Quality wise I can’t judge since I have not seen any of the boxes close enough. The reason I like the NTC boxes is because you can carry 12 cars, you have drawers in the hole center section and the tilt-up lid; that’s the attention to detail I was referring to and those are the things I’m looking for on a box. Now I don’t know if we would piss-off JC by asking him to make a NTC box ❓
I will send a message to NTC asking if we could also get a discount when buying 4 boxes … let’s see what happens.

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The boxes above can be found here: https://www.northerntouchcarpentry.com/slot_car_boxes.cfm

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I don’t like the design of the JC boxes. The box on ebay for $86 is too small and does not hold enough cars, the second option is basically the same box on ebay with an added shelf in the bottom.
I like the boxes by NTC, the attention to detail seems to be higher. If you don’t consider a possible discount by JC, the racer box is $10 higher than the biggest box NTC makes – The Full Monte – Autumn Hills Edition. Knowing what I normally carry around, the extra drawers and the toll box lid will fit my needs a lot better.

I still want to talk to my wood guy this week and see how much he would charge to build me one. I will let you guys know.

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I have seen those before and decided against it.

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I agree that motors should be only one type (same RPM). I would allow yellow dogs for tires, but Kings would need to to carry them in stock. On the car model I think you should select a date range as previously posted. I’m not in favor of running a 70’s, 80’s cars against the current stuff.

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I still need to come up with the dimensions. Let me know the best size for the drawers, I guess you want to have the plato boxes inside them .. right?
Another thing, the dimensions I have for the car shelves are 6.7/8″ X 3.3/4″, let me know if they work with your 1/24 cars.

Here are the boxes I will be using as a model:
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I am leaning towards the blue box size. I think that the blue box will already be heavy when full … the green one full will probably have 20 pounds more ??

The boxes above can be found here: https://www.northerntouchcarpentry.com/slot_car_boxes.cfm
I have also found plans for a simpler box here: https://www.slotside.com/tt/box1.html

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Independent of which track I’m going to: small screwdrivers, pliers, micro files, sand paper, x-acto knifes, tweezers, pinion puller, pinion press, caliper, micro scale, iron brush, cotton swabs, lighter fluid. Spare everything; tires, gears, pinions, motors, pickup guides, axles, braid …..

Depending on the track I’m going: soldering iron, variable power supply, tire truer, comm lathe.

I normally have all the tools I use for slot separate from my other tools and I keep the slot ones on the pit box.

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Welcome to the club Robin, I’m glad you enjoyed the track.
Thanks for taking that tape down.

rcd wrote:

A big thank you to everyone for allowing me to participate this past Saturday. Great bunch of friendly people and a fantastic track.
This was my first time to run 1/32 on a routed track and it was very enjoyable. I will be back.

Robin

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That’s insane .. the last guy is absolutely crazy.

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turboman93 wrote:

Marty,

No, I just have a case that I keep all the tires in specific compartments with a piece of paper that tells me what tires are which. Low tech but it works. 😉

-Shawn

Shawn,

Do you know which type of tires comes in the bottom of each slot.it?
I have them all separated but I don’t know what they are.

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porsche917 wrote:

Ary,

I saw this post on Slot Car Illustrated and thought of you.

Marty

Tell me about it … well, you will see what I did to it this Saturday … but I still need tires for it. 😐

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Well,

We need a big fishnet around the whole track!! 😆

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• Tires may NOT be glued to the wheels.

Can you true a tire without gluing it ?

About the cars; can you use these?
Porsche 956K Schiesser Hockenheim 1985
Porsche 956C Obermaier Racing LeMans 1986
I’m guessing this class includes all LeMans cars from the 80’s?

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