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(220 replies, posted in Slot Talk)

Thanks Doc and I'd love to take you up on that offer, but right now I just have too much on my plate trying to get our new place put together. Still unpacking, painting, and making changes. I'm going over to Howie's today to bring our travel trailer home and touch base with the Rapid Raceway guys.

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(220 replies, posted in Slot Talk)

Or we could just locate a bunch of old pallets and give Jack a call!!

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(220 replies, posted in Slot Talk)

Thanks Rico.

Wish I had a place to put that track Chris!

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Thought I'd post a note just to check in. We're in the new place as most of you already know. We're still working on getting stuff in the house and getting organized as well as making all those repairs and changes involved with acquiring a new home. All of my crap currently resides at 3 separate locations, most of it out of reach and unrecognizable do to cardboard camouflage. Between unpacking, setting stuff up, and repair work there has been little time to get anything done in regards to the shop build. I have only had one contractor submit a bid, and that was only for the concrete foundation. Evidently most every contractor around is too busy to commit to building my shop.

I'm missing the slot car racing and my racing friends. It was tough to get rid of my last track at the old place and that pretty much killed a lot of my enthusiasm for slot cars, at least for now. Hopefully once things get more settled and I can get to more of my slot car stuff I can get back into the swing of things. At this juncture time will tell........

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(306 replies, posted in NASTE)

Here's my video clip of the finish:

https://youtu.be/clK3OtelqoE

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(306 replies, posted in NASTE)

Here's some great photos from the 2017 PDX Adult Soap Box Derby!

https://desomer.smugmug.com/Events/PDX- … /n-9KDD8L/

Classes for the Aug. 31st Odd Thursday Night Race will be Classic Sports Car and Can Am.

For the Sept. 7 race they will be GT and Le Mans.

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(306 replies, posted in NASTE)

For 2017 Dennis Hart created and administrated the Formula 8 division within the PDX Adult Soap Box Derby.

Here are the official results:

CHAMPIONS
Team : Scuderia Kuba
Driver : Jennie Burns
# 21
80.45 sec.

2nd Place
Driver : Arrow Foster
# 8
81.59 sec.

3rd Place
Team : NASTE
Drivers : Dennis Hart & Rico Locati
# 12
85.61  sec

4th Place
Driver : Crystal Potter
# 36
86.19 sec

AWESOME job Dennis!

Race results from 8/17/17

GT3
1 Daniel    68
2 Rico    67.2
3 Monte    65.9
4 Al    64.8
5 Mitch    64.2
6 Gary    61.6
7 David    57.4

F1
1 Daniel    67.1
2 Monte    66.1
3 Al    65.4
4 Rico    64
5 Gary    63.4
6 Mitch    59.9
7 David    52.2

BRM Group C
1 Rico    73.6
2 Al    72
3 Mitch    71.4
4 Daniel    70.4
5 Monte    69

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(306 replies, posted in NASTE)

HOLLY FREAKIN' COW!!!   WE FREAKIN' WON!!!!

This was a TEAM EFFORT all the way, but we could not have made the journey without Dennis Hart's vision, and the skills and hard work of Chris Kouba!!!

Thank you ALL that helped make this happen! We obviously had THE BEST TEAM on the hill!!!

======Bill

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Coming up with a time and date for a team meeting before the race has become quite a challenge. The best I can do is Friday August 18th evening after 6pm. I have determined a location yet, but I will do so after I receive confirmation from those that can attend.

Here's some points to think about before the meeting at which time we will assign some specific duties for our individual teams as well as all the teams collectively.

We need someone to be responsible for taking photos. This will be a duty covering all three teams.

We need someone to be in position at the speed bump located in the return tow route back up to the pit area. The speed bump is roughly 200 yards from the top of the hill or pit area. This person will responsible for unhooking our team cars from the tow vehicle, getting it safely over the speed bump, and then re-attaching it for the remainder of the two to the pit area. This person will not have to be at the speed bump through the entire race, only when one of our team cars is being towed back up.

If you would like to volunteer for either of those duties please let me know.

I would also like to get a contact number for each team member that will be on the hill. If you could email me the cell phone number you will have on you during the race that would be great. I will put together a list so everyone will have all the team member's contact numbers.

I would also like to make a list of all the team members planning to attend the after race party.

If you have any other concerns or questions please let me know.

Lastly, Dennis needs a small sized 12VDC "Boom Box" that will play single CD's REAL LOUD to install in the Flyer. He tried using one of those small round ones that kids plug headphones into and it  didn't work.  It has to be strong enough to drive real speakers. He will take it apart and set it up in the rear section to play appropriate crowd stimulating sounds as the Flyer flies by!  Cheap would be good.  Free would be better!  He has an old Sony that works bitchin, but Char likes it and won't let him dissect it to fit. The crowd would LOVE it!

Again, the pre-race meeting will be on Friday August 18th at 6:30pm, location yet to be determined. I hope this date and time will work for most everyone.

May the force of gravity be with you.

========Bill

Race results from August 8th race:

GT Class
1 Greg    71.3
2 Al    69
3 Mitch    68.1
4 Daniel    64.2
5 Jeff    59.7
6 Amy    57.1
7 David    54.6

Le Mans Class
1 Daniel    68.4
2 Greg    66
3 Al    65.6
4 Mitch    64.6
5 Jeff    63.5
6 Amy    56
7 David    54.9

Over 50 Class
1 Mitch    67.5
2 Al    63.4
3 David    58.9
4 Greg    56.1
5 Daniel    53.6

New home stuff is dragging. Still no floors installed so no progress on getting settled. This sucks!

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(306 replies, posted in NASTE)

Dennis Hart is looking for a small sized 12VDC "Boom Box" that will play single CD's REAL LOUD to be installed in the Hawksbill Flyer.  It has to be strong enough to drive real speakers. He will take it apart and set it up in the rear section of the car to play appropriate crowd stimulating sounds as the Flyer flies by!  Cheap would be good.  Free would be better!  He has an old Sony that works bitchin, but Char likes it and won't let him dissect it to fit. The crowd would LOVE it!

May the force of gravity be with you.

Dennis

Info I received from Al regarding the classes for the next two Odd Thursday Night races:

F1 and GT3 on 8/17 and Classic Sport Cars and CanAm on 8/31

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(220 replies, posted in Slot Talk)

DONE, thanks Doc!

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(220 replies, posted in Slot Talk)

We got our cable service installed today so I am back up and running.

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We're out, we're in, and what a freaking mess!

Thanks again to everyone that helped us with our move!!!

We won't have internet service at our new house until sometime next week, so I'll probably be out of touch for awhile.


=======Bill

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Unloaded a BUNCH of stuff today at the new place. We are having the floors and carpet redone so everything has to go in the garage for now. What a MESS!

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Three days left to be out of this place. TooBad Motorplex is just memories now. My HO track went into the U-Haul today. I have stuff scattered over three different locations.............it will never be the same!

Results from July 27th race at Al's Rippin' Ridin' Raceway -

Trans Am
1 Mitch    66
2 Rico    65.9
3 Greg    65.6
4 Daniel    63.7
5 Al    60.8
6 Fernando    60.8
7  Burns    59.6
8 David    58.8
9 Julie    53.2

Can Am
1 Daniel    72.1
2 Al    69.8
3 Mitch    67
4 Rico    66.7
5 Burns    62.4
6 Fernando    61
7 Greg    59.3
8 Julie    56.1
9 David    52.9

GT 3
1 Rico    68.5
2 Al    66.5
3 Greg    66.4
4 Mitch    66.3
5 Daniel    65.7
6 Fernando    64.8
7 Burns    61.4
8 Julie    59.5
9 David    52.1

BRM Group C
1 Rico    76.4
2 Al    72
3 Mitch    70.3
4 David    59
5 Burns    56.9

Looks like you guys had some close racing!

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(306 replies, posted in NASTE)

Thanks to Howie, the Scuderia Kouba gravity racers made it out to the Beaches Cruise In this evening.

http://www.naste.org/members/bill/img_5157a.jpg

http://www.naste.org/members/bill/img_5156a.jpg

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(28 replies, posted in Cars)

I think we need to do some experimenting with some of the ideas suggested and see where it takes us.

I know Al's track has the capability of adjusting the track voltage, and the lap time breakout could also be experimented with.

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(220 replies, posted in Slot Talk)

Now THAT could be a possibility!

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Just in case anyone was wondering, it is 3.3 miles farther to our new place in Vancouver than our current house in Fairview (as measured from the I-205 / I-84 interchange).

Time-wise that could be measured in HOURS depending on the day and time!

Probably no Odd Thursday Racing in the future at my place.............