Links to listening and, for the brave, viewing options : Talking Utter Slot Podcast

Episode 29 - Melting: Topical Tales of Tyres & Ice Cream.

The postman has knocked twice and delivered stuff to both Scott and Pedro: find out who got what. Also, unresearched corrections, opinions and Pedro explains the slot car justification for his ice cream habit. Meantime, Scott talks (and talks...) tyres, trucks and offers free advice to the manufacturers. Again.

A while back our slot car group wondered if 1/25 scales cars would work on one of our larger club tracks. We ran into a dozen 1/25 static bodies at $5 a piece. Our club bought the lot.

I found a badly pre-painted and assembled kit for $5. It would make for a quick test-car. No need to wait for the paint to dry. But the paint was quite bad.

   

The slot car passed the test. But the paint was wearing me down. Off with the paint. The rebuild begins.

   

I found a Chevrolet poster from 1965 that showed all 15 colours being offered that year, and picked one.

   
   
   

We raced again today. The other three cars belong to other club members. Only the yellow Impala is mine. These big cars are a hoot!

   
   
   
   

Thank you very kindly for looking.
Ken

   

We were back at the Barn last night for our traditional WHO digital end-of-the-school-year Wednesday night bash. The evening was taken up with a third GT championship endurance race of the season - this time another 500 lap / two hour event. Seventeen racers took part - plus Ed helping out with marshalling - giving us five teams of three and a trial run of a Silver-Silver pairing for Jeremy and Matthew, deputing for Simon's Ardingly Aces.

Simon was off celebrating son Tyler's university graduation - Tyler was the junior medal winner at our first official HO club night in March 2010...

   

Here's the official line-up for our July GT Championship race - three Mercs, two Bentleys and a lone Aston...

   

We used a tweaked and lengthened version of Mike's February 2019 track, stretching the parallel straight sections from this original diagram at the top left and to the right...

   

After a solid 30 minutes of practice, it was time for the quick-fire two-minute Superpole Shoot-out. This would determine the grid positions and an extra championship point for the fastest lap...

   

Yet again, Ryan's Smooth Operators would start from the front, Ryan taking the first stint... as would all those who qualified their cars...

   

And we were ready to go...

New three lane 45 ft.  track in Westchester NY, needing racers….
   

Ron

New three lane track in Westchester NY, needing racers….
   

Ron

Raced once and now missing two mirrors ! Otherwise nice, rear tyres trued/glued, photos on request via pm with your email address,  £35 includes postage in uk

I'm sure everyone at one time has either bought a badly painted car, or had a bad paint day.

I usually use Super Clean degreaser as my regular "go to" for paint removal.

I bought a pre-painted 1/25 static body at a flea market for $5 as a quick slot car test. Once it passed the test, the paint wore me down to the point that I had to change it.

   

I sometimes soak the body in Super Clean for up to 3-days. This Impala was soaking for over 2-weeks and it barely made a dent in the paint.

   

The clean hood pictured above was the first test with Easy-Off over cleaner. So I sprayed the entire body with Easy-Off and set it in a dollar store tupperware container over night. I was nicely surpised at how well it worked. The only small areas that didn't come off were hiding under spots of glue. It even cleaned off the overspray inside the body.

   

I would not recommend using it on windows or chrome parts.

It's now ready for prep and re-paint.

Thanks,
Ken

I think I follow how it goes together, and that the body is attached by the side pieces rather than the original body post sockets.

   

But...

I don't think there are enough nuts and bolts in the pack to fit the side rails. Normal?

Why are there 2 thin nuts and 2 thick nuts in the pack?  The thick ones seem too thick to fully engage with the nuts.

And what are those two members for that stick out from each side of the chassis adjacent to the motor pod? I need to cut them off as they interfere with the fit of the body.

Hello from Somers, NY. I’m an expat Canuck, who has built a 3 lane wood track in the garage. Looking for interest in the Westchester NY area.

Hello, I'm new here and figured I'd introduce myself. My name is CJ and I live in the US in the state of Wisconsin. Got back into slot cars the beginning of this year, first time since I was a child that I have raced them and have dove in head first into this hobby. Have built a decent size track in my basement and continue to build and grow it :-) Looking to learn more about this hobby as I go along