Results from the July 31st race:
26 August 1, 2025 1:15 pm
Re: NASTE Odd Thursday Night Racing Rules & Current Thread (2,164 replies, posted in NASTE)
27 August 1, 2025 1:14 pm
Re: NASTE Odd Thursday Night Racing Rules & Current Thread (2,164 replies, posted in NASTE)
Results from the July 17th race:
28 July 27, 2025 9:22 pm
Re: PASER RULES (24 replies, posted in PASER)
July 27, 2025
Sports Car Rules modified to allow lowering of the bodies within specific parameters.
29 July 25, 2025 9:03 am
Re: PASER RULES (24 replies, posted in PASER)
July 25, 2025
Can Am Rules Updated.
30 July 23, 2025 9:03 pm
Re: Open Track Tuesday Evening July 22nd (3 replies, posted in InSlot's Checkered Flag Raceway)
I remember you telling me you had to get your race car ready. That's OK, we will see you next time!
31 July 23, 2025 9:18 am
Re: Hanna Chassis STR 001 - Where Is It Now? (1 replies, posted in Wanted)
Chassis STR 001 has been located! Early conversations regarding a possible trade have commenced! I am hopeful!
32 July 23, 2025 8:00 am
Re: Open Track Tuesday Evening July 22nd (3 replies, posted in InSlot's Checkered Flag Raceway)
Another non-scheduled open track last night here in Vancouver, again with 8 racers! I consider that a really good turnout for a Tuesday night, especially in the middle of summer! Some attendees were repeats from last Tuesday, some were racers that did not make the last Tuesday track time. Thanks guys for coming out, your attendance makes it worth while!
33 July 21, 2025 12:27 pm
Re: Pro track indy car (1 replies, posted in For Sale or Trade)
If nobody steps up to buy it from you Steven, I will buy it. ====Bill
35 July 19, 2025 8:05 am
Topic: Hanna Chassis STR 001 - Where Is It Now? (1 replies, posted in Wanted)
Sometime back, somewhere I read a post about Bob Hanna's STR 001 chassis. Someone was talking about selling it. Does anybody know who currently has it, and do they want to sell it? I'd love to add that one to my collection!
36 July 18, 2025 1:42 pm
Re: Bill's Junk (240 replies, posted in Slot Talk)
I consider my tumbler one of my best tools for slot car work. It does an awesome job of cleaning up newly constructed chassis, as well as crusty old used chassis! Repairing or rebuilding old chassis is much easier if they are all cleaned up before starting to work on them! Especially when it comes to soldering work!
This is my tumbler and parts broken down for cleaning. It had been running pretty much non-stop for the last week or so.
These are the small stainless steel pins used as media for the tumbler. There are other types of media you can use but these little pieces of rod work really well! Plus they can be used over and over!
This is the motorized part/base of the tumbler. It has a built in timer that can be set for up to three hours. I typically just reset the timer over and over to keep it running almost non-stop.
37 July 18, 2025 1:23 pm
Re: Bill's Junk (240 replies, posted in Slot Talk)
This joint where the cross bar solders to the side pan hinge seems to be a weak point. It's a small piece of square tubing to solder the wire to.
Two chassis had the joint break and the side pans fall off from the tumbling process. The small piece of square tubing was missing when the chassis was pulled out of the tumbler.
This is what it looked like after the piece of square tubing was re-installed and re-soldered. This small piece of square tubing not only serves as part of the side pan hinge, it also provides a place to secure the cross bar that is part of the up stop for both side pans, and front to rear movement stop for both side pans. It also keeps the side pan from coming off. Bottom line is, it is an important part!
38 July 18, 2025 1:17 pm
Re: Bill's Junk (240 replies, posted in Slot Talk)
I completed the repairs to STR 103 this morning. This chassis looks a little rough but it functions fine with very good, smooth movement of the parts that are meant to move!
39 July 18, 2025 9:21 am
Topic: Scratchbuilt Slot Car Definition (0 replies, posted in Slot Talk)
I guess I just want to vent a bit here....I surf Ebay daily looking for bargains and just plain cool slot car stuff. One of my pet peeves is people calling their cars "scratchbuilt" when in fact they are assembled from chassis kits, or just production slot cars with a body swap. In my opinion, a "scratchbuilt" slot car is one where the majority of the chassis has been built out of pieces of material that did not start out as slot car parts (i.e. brass tubing, steel rod, brass strip). The one exception to acceptable production car parts would be a motor mount, although there was a time when even motor mounts were "scratchbuilt". If you have a slot car you "built" using a production chassis (i.e. Slot.it, NSR) or chassis kit (i.e. 2NASTE), in my mind what you have at best is a modified production car, or a custom built slot car............OK, I feel somewhat better now..........
40 July 18, 2025 6:19 am
Topic: Open Track Tuesday Evening July 22nd (3 replies, posted in InSlot's Checkered Flag Raceway)
Inslot's Checkered Flag raceway will again be open on this coming Tuesday evening (July 22nd).
I have received another request for "track time".
Doors will open at 5:00 PM and stay open until the last person leaves.
42 July 16, 2025 9:15 am
Re: Bill's Junk (240 replies, posted in Slot Talk)
STR 233 came out of the tumbler this morning. This one is really nice! It cleaned up well and all the joints move freely. Absolutely no repairs needed.
Chassis STR158 which is a Sports Car chassis took STR233's place in the tumbler. Power on, tumble away!
43 July 15, 2025 10:26 am
Re: Bill's Junk (240 replies, posted in Slot Talk)
STR 103 came out of the tumbler this morning. One plus of putting a chassis through the tumbling process is; the process will reveal any weak solder joints or poor construction. Looks like I will be making a repair to this NASCAR chassis.
The previous owner made some small modifications to the front of the side pans, probably to make the chassis fit a specific body. The pans were also drilled for body mounting. It looks as though this chassis was raced a lot (must have been a good one!). There is evidence of quite a few repairs completed in the past!
44 July 13, 2025 6:28 pm
Re: Bill's Junk (240 replies, posted in Slot Talk)
STR 129 and STR 258 have been sold.
45 July 13, 2025 12:56 pm
Re: Bill's Junk (240 replies, posted in Slot Talk)
After its second trip through, chassis STR 258 came out of the tumbler today. It looks much better, and the chassis side pans and center section move freely! It was time to assemble it for testing. The test motor was an old Parma 16D, a little bit of a soft motor but, enough good for the initial testing.
The chassis performed well, even without any tuning or lead ballast added. The complete chassis with motor weighs in at 6.9 oz/196 grams. The front tires/wheels are .875" dia. X .500" wide (for those that don't like "O" rings). It is currently set up for 1/8" rear axle with bushings. The wheelbase is 4.55" and the chassis width is 2.65". This will be a good chassis for NASCAR (narrower bodies i.e. Thunderbird) or for an OSCAR legal Super Stock body. This one will be sold without a motor or rear tires (the new owner will probably want fresh parts anyway).
46 July 13, 2025 8:54 am
Topic: Open Track Tuesday Evening July 15th (0 replies, posted in InSlot's Checkered Flag Raceway)
Inslot's Checkered Flag Raceway will be open Tuesday evening July 15th. For anyone interested in practice, tuning, or testing, the doors will open at 5:00pm.
47 July 12, 2025 11:11 am
Re: Bill's Junk (240 replies, posted in Slot Talk)
The Hanna Econo/Sportsman chassis (STR 129) came out of the tumbler this morning and STR 258 went back in for a final polishing up. I have to say STR 129 came out looking pretty dang good in a Frankenstein kind of way! The bare chassis weighs in at 4.8 oz/138 grams.
I assembled the chassis with a stock 16D motor, threw on a body, and made a few test laps. Even without any chassis tuning or adding lead ballast it ran good! The complete car (with the '56 Chev body) weighs 8.5 oz/242 grams.
I wish I knew the history on this chassis. The side pans were widened with narrow strips of .092" brass, butt soldered to the pans. From the looks of it I'd say it was done when the chassis was originally built. It looks like the center joint that connects the two side pans was changed from rectangular tubing to round, limiting up and down movement of the side pans. Holes were drilled in the pans for body mounting with recessed screws. A rectangular hole was cut in the center section for lead ballast. Lead placement for ballast and tuning will be up to the next owner........
I have to say the tumbler sure makes chassis look good! They say; "you can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit" but, after you pull it out of the tumbler it may not be chicken salad, but it looks like really shiney chicken shit!
48 July 11, 2025 9:16 pm
Re: Bill's Junk (240 replies, posted in Slot Talk)
While I was working on chassis 258, I threw a Hanna Econo style chassis (STR 129) into the tumbler. Once I set up the tumbler for use I like to keep it going and get as much done with it as I can. The clean up after using it takes me awhile to complete! I spent some time disassembling chassis and getting them ready to tumble. Left to right: this is the nicest, cleanest, original Hanna NASCAR chassis I have seen in a long time! Never modified or repaired, hasn't even had weight ballast attached! The middle one looks rough but functionally it seems good. Everything works as it should. I did put the Dremel to it to try and clean it up a little. We'll see how it looks after 18 or so hours in the tumbler. The one on the far right is pretty good. The side pan noses were trimmed, probably to fit a specific body.
These two will be the next up. The left chassis is a Hanna Sports Car chassis that looks pretty good. The one on the right is a really small .092" rattle chassis for the Clubman Class. It ran kind of OK when I tested it. I'm going to try a complete rebuild of this one. It looks like it has been unloved and neglected for a number of years!
And there you have it, that's what has been going on around here for the last few weeks. I will post some updated photos as I complete these chassis......
49 July 11, 2025 9:13 pm
Re: Bill's Junk (240 replies, posted in Slot Talk)
Well, we'll see Doc. At least I'll have something that goes around the track! You know me, I don't like borrowing cars!
50 July 11, 2025 4:09 pm
Re: Bill's Junk (240 replies, posted in Slot Talk)
After completing the track work I shifted my attention to my ongoing projects....While I was in Georgia I got a call from Mike Naber about some used slot cars for sale. A friend of his that used to race at Pelican Park wanted to sell all his cars and stuff. Mike set up and brokered the deal. After I was back home Mike shipped the cars up to me.
The intent of this purchase was to make some cars available to newer racers. A few days ago I started taking a closer look at my purchase. I picked out the chassis that looked the worst. This one has been run hard, and repaired more than once. After doing some extensive Dremel grinding to remove excess solder and what looks like bird poop, I gave it a closer inspection. One of the hinged side pans was totally locked up. Hoping it was just corrosion or crud, I fired up my tumbler and threw the chassis in. After a good 18 hours of tumbling the chassis was all nice and shiney but, the side pan was still locked up. So over to the work bench it went....
I don't sell anything to racers I don't feel good about. This Hanna NASCAR chassis (STR 258) is rough. Multiple repairs with poor soldering. I am not great when it comes to soldering, but these were worse than mine! I used a cut off wheel in a Dremel to cut open one side of the square tubing that makes up the hinge for the side pan. Then I used a small hammer and screw driver to open up the tubing so I could slide the pan off the steel rod of the hinge. Turns out solder had wicked up into the tubing (probably during a repair) which had locked up the pan. After I got it apart, I cut off the old square tubing (which I had totally mangled getting the thing apart). The edge of the pan was then filed flat and smooth again. I cut new pieces of square tubing, reassembled everything using light oil on the steel rod inside the square tubing. The light oil is to keep the solder from wicking into the hinge joint again. After all the parts were assembled and squared up on my jig, I soldered up the side pan. After soldering I cleaned everything up with soap and water. Success, both hinges now move freely! Tomorrow STR 258 will go back into the tumbler for the final cleaning.
