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Marc – stay strong my friend and avoid the squeeze on your track. Squeeze oranges, limes, lemons and your partner but not your track.
Opel Chassis Issues
John, I have had those same issues with a couple of Group C chassis. I don’t know why its a problem on some and not others. I have an Open and there is not a lot of material on the front axle chassis loop. Good luck with it. Chassis are readily available. I even saw a guy on eBay selling a complete chassis less body for $27. Not a bad deal for the full set up. Could be a good test car chassis.
To help with proper set up for the proxy I have provided the Houston club with the popular set up’s we run with Slot It – F30’s, CH-07 wood guide, zero grip tires on the front, 9t pinions and 23t-25t crowns at the 12v the series will run at. I also provided they with a minimum chassis clearance measurement and the recess depth of the braid on our track.
They will be providing us with similar information. What I already know – their track is four lanes, routed wood with magnetic braid. The track layout is very different from ours in that it was based on a plastic Scalextric track they used to run on. They just copied the design and routed it. As a result their lane spacing is 3 1/16″ just like Scalextric. Ours is 4″, a little wider than Carrera.
Yes, that is a routing fence. I have two so you can put them together to make one long run. Let me know if you want to borrow them.
I would avoid any squeeze but that’s just my opinion.
Marty
I love that design. That looks like it will be a very fun track to run. Let me know if you need any slot car specific tools to help with the routing. I can’t wait to see it running.
Mark,
That is crazy. I have never heard of that before. Happy to hear it did not get any worse.
Marty
It looks like we will be running proxy races for at least the next six months and should figure out what cars we would like to run in the two series that would run during those six months.
This would mean a series that would run in Q4 this year from October through December and the other Q1 from January through March.
I would like to see us run Slot It Group C for Q1 in 2021 since that is a tradition for the club. We have already run Group C in 2020 and I would like to run something we have already proposed for 2020. The remaining series we voted on running in 2020 were BRM Group C, Targa Florio on the rally track or Slot It DTM cars. As nice as it would be to run one of those in Q4 I feel it would be difficult as many members have not had or will not have time to come to the track to properly prepare a car.
We might do better by looking back at previous series that we had run in 2019 or 2018. The two series I think would work from the previous two years is either the Slot It McLaren CanAm series as we had done in H1 of 2019 or the Racer Group 5 series we ran in 2018.
With all of this being said, I would vote for running Slot It McLaren CanAm or Racer Group 5 in Q4 of this year and Slot It Group C in Q1 of 2021.
I look forward to hearing the thoughts of all the other members.
Another update on the Thunderslot Rear tires
I have tried both Liquid Nails Silicone Adhesive and Super Glue’s Silicone Adhesive as per instructions from Thunderslot. They said to use a Silicone adhesive on the tires but I found both of these highly ineffective. The glue that seems to work the best is Shoe Goo. Once again the tried and true, pun intended, Shoe Goo works on keeping Thunderslot tires glued to the rims.
Update on how to prepare your Thunderslot rear tires. I had an issue with four pairs of Thunderslot tires cracking after I glued them to the rims. I emailed Thunderslot pictures of the tires along with a description of the different glues I used and they responded in less than 24 hours. That is some good customer service. They said that you cannot use any CA glues on their tires. You need to use a silicone glue and not CA on all Thunderslot tires. Now you know. I wish that I knew that before ruining four pairs of tires.
Frank – Thanks for the comments. We will have the situation updated and resolved for the next race on the 25th. Thanks for watching. We will do better next time.
Randy,
I don’t think we have a choice on the calendar. I don’t really see us going back to racing as a group until 2021 first quarter. I think we need to see how this proxy event goes and then see if this is something we want to continue with or have people come in at scheduled times to race and then collect the results and post a winner. Its all very confussing at the moment. Let’s see how this weekend goes.
Marty
The track that was talked about in the earlier posts is 99.9% complete. The work was finished this past week with the final landscaping and clean up being completed. The track was used this past weekend by my son and his friend and it worked great. I can’t wait to have the club over to try it out and have a few beverages. I have attached a couple of pics.
I agree with Russell that we should test this out first and that it is not a top priority at the moment when we are not even running. I also think this option adds another large variable to the car set up. I don’t think it would be too difficult to figure out but it does add another layer to the set up (complication) of any car you would run. It would mean that you would need to spend more time running each lane prior to a race to figure out exactly what voltage works best for your car on that lane on that day. The reason I say “that day” is because many have already experienced issues with setting up a car on Thursday night only to realize the car does not work the same way on Saturday when the races are held.
As much as I am intrigued about the concept I would also would like, as I stated on our Saturday call, a switch that puts the voltage at all drivers stations the same. This would allow us to quickly put everyone back on the same footing if we decided we needed to for a race or series.
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