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Gold fish end up being nothing more than chum in a pond visited by the dastardly demon blue heron!

The only good blue herons are the plastic ones!

Which rally cars? Maybe we can do some trading?

Hey Smooth, I checked the Lil' Slot Car Heaven site but your race dates are not on the calendar. Will you still be racing on the first Sundays of the month?

So what you're saying is the bird was "relatively" safe................

Put in a FULL day on the track. Got one of the elevation/transition sections tied into the infield, routed the short straight, and routed the infield sweeper (roughly a 30" radius turn for the outside lane). Worked on the overpass section, making it into a wicked "S" curve. Maybe a little too wicked?! I'm worried (on the inside lane) a car may jam if you go into it too fast. The inside lane through this "S" is similar to the chicane on the three lane 1/24 track I had years ago. It was a very difficult section, and you had to hit it just right.  There aren't any really difficult turns in this track so far. This one has very good visibility as it is close to the driver's stations. It will also be easy to turn marshal. I'll have to study it, and think about it a bit.

Here's that wickedly NASTE "S":

What a difference! It looks great now!!!

Is that an NSR or a Ninco?

That IS the plan!!!!

Thanks Mike. I'm getting better at the gallery stuff, so it doesn't take me nearly as long as it used to!

As far as the track construction I use a few different methods when it comes to routing the lanes. They all work and I can't say I really prefer one over the other. Mostly I just enjoy building tracks.

I've been side tracked on other projects for the last week or two, but hopefully I'll find time to get more done while I'm on vacation next week.   -----------------------Bill

I have edited the proposed race dates for the 2011 season. We will have a meeting in August to firm up the dates and other details.

I have also been collecting "STUFF" to build trophy's out of for next season. I would like to schedule a workshop to build trophy's, maybe next month?   ------------------Bill

Bryan,

CONGRATULATIONS on winning the 2010 NASTE Point Series Championship!!!!

David,

Another thing that may contribute to your problems is using the Scalextric controllers to control the speed of the cars. The controllers are nothing more than a wire wound resistor with a flat metal strip that slides across the wire which varies the drop in voltage seen by the car's motor. When set for a constant speed the controllers will get hot and probably burn the wire on the resistor.

I'm with you on the suitability of the Hornby wall wart! Like you stated they put out 800ma, but that's at the full 15.9 volts. Set at 30% using the Scalextric controllers you're probably getting just barely enough current to the cars to make them go. Like the controllers, the longer they run the warmer they get and I'm sure that power figure is dropping.

So I think a better power supply is an excellent idea. You might try a power supply for a computer. It should put out plenty to run two cars. If you need to vary the voltage to slow the cars down, I would try using a quality 110 volt dimmer switch on the 110 volt side of the power supply. Drop the input to the power supply and you should be able to more effectively drop the power supply's output.

The last thing I would mention  is to connect the wiring from the power supply to the track in more than one spot (i.e. if you track running length is 12 feet, have parallel power connections at 6 feet and another at 12 feet). This will more effectively distribute the power evenly.

Hope some of this helps! I'd like to come by and take a look at your project, but unfortunately I'll be tied up until Monday afternoon.

Keep us posted!!!    ---------------------------Bill