[Fot] Slots

[Bill Babcock]

I built a twin motor car too. Sounded like a bowling ball on the track.
On Dec 19, 2006, at 1:33 PM, <jrhill at chorus.net> wrote:

> Bob Bownes writes:
>
>> So you are saying you'd favour Vintage Slot cars? :-)
>> . . .
>> my personal fav was, and still is (in a box in the
>> basement) my 1/24th scale M8B McLaren with the hand
>> built brass chassis. . . .
>> Now if I only had a place to race it.
>
> If you guys don't cut out the slotcar chatter, I'll be forced to  
> haul out my tube-frame, twin-motor Tipo 151 Maserati from the early  
> '60s. A real pig in the corners, of course, but we had a great  
> track to race on -- the replica of Riverside Raceway at the  
> Automech Foreign Car Shop on University Avenue in (where else)  
> Riverside CA.
>
> Jim Hill
>
>
>> Now if I only had a place to race it.
>>
>> iii
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Bill Babcock wrote:
>>
>>> Controllers were always the weak spot for hot cars. I tried to build
>>> a transistorized one, but didn't really know enough to do it right.
>>> Had the right idea though--use the controller variable resistor to
>>> control power transistors. Unfortunately my funky electronics  
>>> usually
>>> quietly expired just when I needed them most--when I was trying to
>>> crank it up to "eleven". Now you can buy controllers the size of a
>>> postage stamp that witll control 30 amp brushless motors. Thank god
>>> we didn't have those motors back then. We would have been killing
>>> people with runaway cars.
>>>
>>> On Dec 18, 2006, at 5:34 PM, jcjcarrera at comcast.net wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've tried all the usual sources for badge bars for the front of my
>>>> street TR4's, Moss, RF, Victoria Brit, etc. No luck, only TR3's.
>>>> Anyone on the list know of a source? Please contact me off list at
>>>> jcjcarrera at comcast.net
>>>>
>>>> Enjoyed hearing everyone's comments on slot cars. My GPA would have
>>>> been much higher in college except for this addiction. Still have
>>>> my two cars, Jim Hall's Chapparel and a custom job--"Guy Farley's"
>>>> stock car converted to road course setup. Had an electrical
>>>> engineering student re-wind the motor for me in exchange for
>>>> letting him use my TR3 for a date. One fast car, had to wire two
>>>> "D" cell batteries in line to beef up the braking. Burned through
>>>> my controller in a hurry, but did place in a 24 hour enduro at the
>>>> track in Williamsport, PA 1965!!
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, John James
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