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Topic: Scratchbuilt Slot Car Definition

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..........

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  • From: Powell Butte
  • Registered: June 12, 2024
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Re: Scratchbuilt Slot Car Definition

Hello slot car racers,

  I build slot car chassis from scratch.    Also known as scratch built.
They are not from a chassis kit that is assembled, a chassis striped down and reassembled, or something cut from many chassis and soldered together as a Frankenstein chassis. 
  In order to build a good chassis, you will need a good quality jig, wire bender, wheel diameter blocks, 90-degree square, 80-watt solder iron, good clean metal your choice, Dremel and some common hand tools (needle nose pliers, skewer - stick, ruler & pen or pencell).
  Sign in and click on the attachment below.
 
  I am not saying I am smarter than the next guy, because I am definitely not. It is that some people just do not know the difference. i.e. (If I put together a Revell model kit - I did not scratch build it).

Jim Mitchell

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

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