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Great stuff Beau, thanks for sharing.

Long live the king!!

I could take it no more last night.  The brake rheostat for my controller was waiting for me when I got home and I brought it down to the shop and tripped on something (air mattress). At that point I decided that something had to be done.  I finally stopped at 10 pm and I'm still not completely done cleaning, chucking and rearranging.  I have filled a 55 gallon garbage sack and have a 12" high stack of flattened cardboard boxes along with a large pile for Salvation Army.  On the plus side, I found the missing wheel/tire for Ninco Megane and the exhaust pipes for the Lotus 49 that have been missing since the last time I decided to burn up my controller by hooking it up backwards.

Maybe I should run without them more often?  Truthfully, I did have some brakes thanks to what I call the magic little switch. Thank you Jim DiFalco.  For most cars it is simply too much brake and I seldom use it. 

BTW, I wish I had a 6.5 lap but in reality it was an 8.5 something.

I've done some playing around on the Lotus and I don't see any way to make use of a solid axle as the axle would be on the same plane as the chassis/guide holder.  It would just take too much modification and the car would end up either nose up or nose down.  However, all is not lost using the existing components and a judicious use of glue in the right spots.  We'll see if it works next Thursday at the Koub's.

Oh come on: Like it's the first time we have conversed about food instead of slot cars on this forum.  Besides slot cars, it's our 2nd favorite topic.

I might be persuaded

Local smart a$$ here. Even to the races at your house?

My 4WD decided to quit working this morning. I made it from my house to 39th (Chavez to some) and Glisan before it decided to work. A real Dukes of Hazzard affair in some instances. Of course, now that it's in the shop, it's working perfectly. I agree the roads are worse in some areas. The freshly packed snow was no trouble at all but now that it's compacted, partially melted and refrozen it's turned to ice.

As was pointed out to me a while back the Policar cars are out of spec too.  The motors are rated at 25k but at an unknown voltage so they could be fairly close if the 25k was at 14.8v but probably still over spec against 18k motors.

Rico

Merry Christmas everyone!

Good news, I was going to have to miss tomorrow's race due to the kids Christmas Concert which has now been postponed.  Bad news is the new date is Thursday Jan 5th.

Good advice, take it you should.

Certainly an entertaining evening of racing.  To borrow a line from Repo Man: "That was intense".  I think my favorite part of the night was watching Stan nerf cars from the grey lane.  Not something entirely uncommon in itself but he was hitting cars in the white lane while using a borrowed car.  Excellent stuff.  Thanks to Bill for hosting and to everyone else for making it so fun.

Rico