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I trued the front stock tires on the stock plastic wheels like Marty suggested. Slow and light touch. They are round now but they have differing amounts of tread in patches around the tire. If I followed the regular club practice of truing tires until all of the tread is gone, I might have problems, but so far so good. The read slicks that came in the box are OK, but they lost a little chunk where the grub screw driver passes against the sidewall of the tire.
I’ll have the car long Saturday if you want to check it out.
I trued the front tires of the ThunderSlot carefully and discovered three things. The front axle is NOT knurled, so the plastic wheels side off without damage. The plastic wheels have inserts so I could put the tire truer axle through the wheels. I trued very carefully, test driving twice, still hopping after first true. Then discovered that the fronts were true but soft, very unlike our usual hard zero grips. I did not run laps after the last true, but expect real good times. This is also the car that lost a front axle height adjustment grub and I am still waiting for those parts.
I have changed the number on my blue and silver Revo Slot to 68 with red numbers. Now it also has blue wheels in front and silver in rear to match the body colors.
I do not like the idea of truing the front tires on stock plastic wheels and force fit axles. My roadster seems to bounce on the un-trued fronts. Marty tells me a very light touch on the truer will preserve the stock tire and wheel, but will it preserve the force fit on the axle?
I have had the #30 Gurney roadster for almost 4 months. I would change the number to 48 if I must to satisfy the “dibs” idea, but only reluctantly. It may be too late to really call dibs. (Letting Slot.it McLarens in the series would make more cars available;)
11 volts seems plenty on this light car.
Happy New Year 2018 Series!
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CAUTION ThunderSlot rear wheel on one side of my roadster had the correct coarse thread grub screw and the other wheel had the fine thread front suspension adjustment grub screw. After I trued the tires the wheel grub screws both came out. I did not get the fine screw back in its original wheel and stripped the wheel threads. Then I stripped the other hole in that wheel. Nice. I have looked at both screws and the screws on the wheels I just received in the mail and I never would have guessed they would use 2 different grub screws. The Professor lists two different spare grub screws, but I have not figured out which is the wheel and which is the suspension.
I’d like to bring bbq brisket from Rudy’s. I can pick it up on the way from work at the golf course. Roughly how many people do we expect? If not brisket, what else should it be to make a meal?
Not sour grapes about the 2018 classes, but I think we should reconsider the ThunderSlot class and add the slot.it McLaren. We could get together a couple of the McLarens already in the members hands and a couple of Thunderslots in a pre-season race with comparable skilled drivers and see if they are competitive with each other. The cars would need to be similarly prepared and geared with very limited changes of course.
The NSR GT3 997 Porsches are also all more expensive. Can the club tolerate running the Anglewinder setup for NSR or Revo Slot to keep the cost down? I can run anglewinder.
Attached is a sheet of info for a CanAm series derived from the 2014 specs with updated eligible car info about almost ready to run like Slot.it, others with 3D chassis, and last the ones that have a body but the running gear is not up to par for our racing.
CAN AM! I’m working on updating the 2014 series list of real cars from 1966-1973 and slot cars manufactured for this series. There are numerous new manufactures, cars and 3D chassis that could expand the stable of competitive cars. I’ll annotate the car chart to show which cars have Olifer, etc. available. I am going to recommend that Racer Silverline (1/30) and Vanquish (1/28) not be allowed because they are too large. If someone has a car from those companies that is measurably 1/32 that we can confirm we can add it.
I’ll draft series rules. We should also specify some chassis and wheel rules based on Russell’s wild highly modified Porsche 917/30. Resin bodies were allowed in 2014 so I propose we still allow them.
Since I expect to keep working on Saturdays at the golf course, I could only share Series Manager duties during non-daylight savings dates when I get off work at noon instead of 1:00 like now. So consider being a Manager or co-manager.
