The Slotcar Outhouse

I had in mind to say something on the order of, "I'll be the only one who thinks so, but..." but someone already said it. My vote surprisingly, is the Fly Sunred. I was amazed by the quality, detail, and out of the box performance. I have always enjoyed the Fly cars, but accepted that ther...

Does the Senna car have the same drive unit? Looks slick.

Seriously, Cyph is right. You can drive a lot longer than you can marshall a curve. As soon as you come off a driving shift, get away from the track and rest, then go back to marshall for half your "off" time. It makes a difference. And pay more attention to spectators than usual. We had s...

I've been working my way through a sort of challenge in 1/24. Its a lot of work. But I really like the dirt track modified.

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I have heard of a few 24, and 12 hour Enduros, and the delicate nature of slot cars become rather obvious in these things. They have spares for motors, crowns, pinions, etc, as part of the rules for each team. They have rules for how long the driving shifts are, all kinds of stuff. As a veteran of a...

WOW! I recently posted my latest on another forum, talking about how hard the decalling was. I'm ashamed to say how much easier it was that that! Good job!

Yep, that's the first thing I did. It looked naked, but it was a lot more important to me that silly censoring twits don't get to tell me what my slot car looks like.

Do you folks have a kitchen countertop material called "Corian"? I believe the manufacturer is DuPont. It is perfectly flat, and tools like wood. I use it for set-up blocks and for power run-in as well as for sanding tires. I simply cut the slot with my table saw, run copper tape down the ...

You know, if you keep talking with your tongue that far into your cheek, you'll bite your tongue off...

None taken, believe me. A lot of us have been to places where "Yank" means American, however mystifying it is to Americans who don't come from the industrial Northeast of the USA, where the Yankees live. When I lived in London, Ontario Canada, I was known as "The Yank", among my ...

Did I miss something? Did the 3XL T-shirts come in?

Yep. I quit Ninco forever when they produced the "pre-broken" Moslers and refused to stand behind the product or even admit their design was faulty. Later, they reinforced the weak chassis, but never offered even an admonition that they made the first ones stupidly. Then they raised their ...

That's exactly what I thought, but they overcame that somehow. They were running classes on a snowy hillclimb. I never could see if they had a brush on the front of the guide, but that's what I surmised they were doing. I looked for it, but could not find the pictures online that I remember. I'll ke...

I've seen some pretty great looking snow races that people did outdoors using flour. I've wondered about it. It shouldn't be that hard to seal up the works against debris getting into the gears or bushings, but maintaining traction and keeping electrical contact seem to me to be the big problems to ...

Now that's just weird. I have four of these things and never saw that before. On the other hand, I never saw the rear tires on the front before either!