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Thanks for having us out, it was a great turnout and a great time.

Uh oh. I thought I had all of the trans am cars I would ever need, but maybe not.  http://www.scalextric.com/uk-en/shop/ne … -1971.html

I imagine that there are quite a few Gems hidden in amongst the "junk". Some of that stuff just gets harder to find very year. You have enough 36D motors there to keep the "over 50" class running forever.

Okay Monte, I hope you don't change your mind. I spent an hour yesterday changing my 962 from an anglewinder back into an inline car. The toughest part was finding all of the original parts hidden away in unfinished/failed projects. But then what else did I have to do until Chris "clears" me to go back to work. It appears that I'm not supposed to lift anything heavier than a slot car or controller. However after yesterdays excursion into the garage I think I need to spend a couple of hours cleaning up the workbench so I can get it all out again later. Vicious circle it seems.

That should be fun.

I have that problem all the time. I think I must have a 2.5 minute attention span. In a 3 minute heat most of my de-slots are usually in the last 30 seconds.
At the speeds they run at Rapid Raceway I'm afraid to blink, and that's when I'm marshalling.

So, how did you guys do? More importantly, did you have a great time?

Results?

BTW, Al's track came out very nice, very smooth with a great flow thru the whole track. We didn't attempt to hook the up computer or timing system, we just wired up the lanes to make sure it all worked well. With no jumpers the cars ran fine all the way around. Al's KTM was the only car that seemed to lose power at the far end of the track.

It is/was a nice controller. Unfortunately today just after we got Al's new track all fired up I hooked it up wrong and fried the brake pot. I am unable to locate one for it online so I'll try Radio Shack first for a 30/35 ohm pot and if they don't have one Professor Motor makes one that will fit it and they have online instructions for installing it. I just wish my soldering skills were better.

Dom did pretty good. I had one heat where I wasn't last.

Well on my Slot it Porsche I had a little chatter in the high speed corners with the anglewinder, today I changed it to a sidewinder. It"s very smooth on my track. 13.5 volts is a little much for the cars we have set up, but if you don't squeeze the controller too hard you can get in some nice laps. It was fun to see the over fifty cars get out and run the way they were intended. Their club runs a lot of Flexy cars with Lexan bodies. The braids are recessed a little so unless we were to shim down our guides we can't run as hard as they would anyway. This track was purchased from a Springfield shop and before that it was in Eugene. The guys who raced on it in Eugene many years ago only remember it as being yellow. The guy who maintains it now said he found that it was purple under the yellow, so it has a history that is unknown before that. They had been wondering what happened to the Depoe Bay tracks. They were glad to hear that Bob bought them and that they didn't end up in a burn pile somewhere.