RC Car Recommendation?
That's a sweet layout! My 5 year old son caught me playing with quick oval I set up to test the cars after 20+ yrs of storage when I brought the setup back last year. Most of mine are 440x2 but I have a couple of the aurora afx cars (the police car with lights was my favorite car back in the day even though it wasn't the fastest). Little cars racing around on a track blew his mind so I know he's going to be keen to play with it. It will be interesting to see what/any interest my 4 year old daughter has. I've purchased a couple of additional power supplies and will modify the power track terminal so each controller has it's own supply to prevent one speeding up when the other car flies off.
Thanks 4 the kudos on the layout, and on my restored rough rider buggy. About the track, Its a sectional layout i made with new Tomy AFX tracks. Lots more options trackwise now than i have ever seen. It took me roughly 2 years to build. I soldered all the track joints together and glued them with solvent adhesive, then countersunk the plastic screwed em down with small countersunk screws. I then moulded everything together and painted it with grey autobody laquer primer. Moulding the track together, and sanding the plastic so it appears as one piece was the hardest, especially since we were racing on it every week on friday nights. I would just work on a few sections at a time.
The tracks power is tapped via soldering wires from the underside. Just like your doing with the power supplies with power surge is why i run four 26V power supplies each for its own lane
if you look closely you can see that i widened the outer lanes in the turns approx 3/4" so you cant hug the guard rail on the outside lane. I used n scale model railbed cork where the "grass" meets the track so the grass bumps up to be level with the track. Its spray glued springtime green felt. The magnum 440x2 cars are now hotwheels brand, and virtually unchanged from the 80s. Tyco sold it all out to mattel.
I have bought .004" thick sheet brass at hobby lobby, and i make little rectangles out of it, and solder it to the pick up shoes when they wear thru. Kinda like relining them. Its best to remove them from the car, tin the shoe, and clamp the piece of brass to the shoe w an alligator clamp, then heat it up, and they flow together.
On the tamiya ESC yep its freakin tiny. I bought a futaba wheel n trigger magnum radio for my rough rider when i restored it. Glad this thread got ya thinking about getting out all the toys. Before you start playing with your slot cars you may want to check values on this stuff. I have a lot of old AFX from the 70s. They are no longer toys anymore. I dont play with them too valuable now. This is why i use the Tomy SRT chassis, and the good thing is that american line, johnny lightning, and round 2 make pretty good repops of all those classic bodies. These are only a couple dollars so you dont mind chopping em up with an xacto knife to make em more competitive.
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Www.budshocars.com for parts and cars
Check out
www.hoslotcarracing.com for other ideas including trakmate computer freeware for a lap timer.
Also i am a member of
www.HOSlotRacer.com. lots of guys all over the world building really awesome layouts on there