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Re: Slot cars sure have come a long way!
« Reply #15 on: January 21, 2012, 08:34:07 AM »
Planned version:

Quote from: WFP on January 21, 2012, 08:33:35 AM
No Pics of the old layout....just the design tool renderings of old and planned new...

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Re: Slot cars sure have come a long way!
« Reply #16 on: January 21, 2012, 08:39:37 AM »
Kewl!!! :2vrolijk_21:

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Re: Slot cars sure have come a long way!
« Reply #17 on: January 22, 2012, 11:51:47 AM »
Can't see that being fun. just keeping up with a bluuuuuur :nixweiss:
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Re: Slot cars sure have come a long way!
« Reply #18 on: January 22, 2012, 12:21:26 PM »
Quote from: red ben59 on January 22, 2012, 11:51:47 AM
Can't see that being fun. just keeping up with a bluuuuuur :nixweiss:

I agree, the "driving" part of the equation seems to be just WOT until the tires lose traction or another car knocks you off the track.  In the old days we had to actually use the throttle to keep the cars on the track.  All the skill now would seem to be in building and modifying the car for speed and traction, not the actual driving.  Anyone around here actually race these things so they could enlighten us?


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Re: Slot cars sure have come a long way!
« Reply #19 on: January 22, 2012, 12:36:30 PM »
Man is that fast!
When I was a kid my father was one of the local champs for our neighborhood slot car track. He also worked part time in the store, building cars, re-winding motors etc. did the work to offset the cost of his habit.
I never got to do much of it as it slots started to fade away when I got old enough to do my own work.

But I still have his original "slot car race box" sitting in my basement  :2vrolijk_21:

Man that was fast!
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Re: Slot cars sure have come a long way!
« Reply #20 on: February 21, 2012, 12:53:09 PM »
Finally got around to take a few pics.  Someday I will add the track to make it fourlane.

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Re: Slot cars sure have come a long way!
« Reply #21 on: February 21, 2012, 12:54:02 PM »
One more.

Nowhere near as fas as the one in the video but still fun!
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Re: Slot cars sure have come a long way!
« Reply #22 on: February 21, 2012, 03:45:59 PM »
Quote from: WFP on February 21, 2012, 12:53:09 PM
Finally got around to take a few pics.  Someday I will add the track to make it fourlane.

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Sweeet!!! :2vrolijk_21: Reminds me of my younger days... only now I would be able to race and drink beer while doing it. ;D

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Re: Slot cars sure have come a long way!
« Reply #23 on: February 21, 2012, 07:27:09 PM »
Blindingly fast in the video!
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Re: Slot cars sure have come a long way!
« Reply #24 on: February 21, 2012, 08:23:54 PM »
HOLY CRAP is right! I had no idea they had gotten that fast. I couldn't even tell what color the winning car was.
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Re: Slot cars sure have come a long way!
« Reply #25 on: February 22, 2012, 12:49:45 PM »
Quote from: cvobiker on January 20, 2012, 08:18:53 AM
HOLY CHIT !!     Seriously, how would that be fun,  you can't even see the car in your control,,,those things would kick ass on Tony Stewart..... ;D

Hey now, don't hate on Tony...  :huepfenjump3:
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Re: Slot cars sure have come a long way!
« Reply #26 on: February 22, 2012, 10:04:39 PM »
Quote from: WFP on February 21, 2012, 12:54:02 PM
One more.

Nowhere near as fas as the one in the video but still fun!

turn 7 looks pretty intense
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Re: Slot cars sure have come a long way!
« Reply #27 on: March 13, 2012, 03:29:50 PM »
Decided not to bother with a 4-lane so I stuck with a 2-Lane setup...(nothing to do with my friend Don!) and lengthened the run and made both lanes nominally the same length.

Lane 1: 31.23 meters (outside lane at start/finish line)
Lane 2: 31.19 meters

This track runs counter clockwise as I didnt feel like resoldering the power supply track...there are two squeeze 180º hairpin turns, one 180ºx180º "ESS" set of hairpins, one 90º chrosover and two radius 2 crossover curves that help even out the track lengths

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Re: Slot cars sure have come a long way!
« Reply #28 on: March 13, 2012, 04:17:55 PM »
Nice, Bill.  This is what you can do instead of boating now....and the good thing is you can drink & drive with no fear.  :D har.  spyder
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Re: Slot cars sure have come a long way!
« Reply #29 on: March 13, 2012, 04:41:55 PM »
Really nice.
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