What's up? (Page 3 of 4)

Definitely fits better under Bill's Junk Doc!!!!

You built my Indy car and it is still here .... minus gears and tires.  What was the recommended 48 pitch gears ... 8 - 34 for the Hawk motor?   Also will you have front and rear tires available?

I think my Indy fronts are on my BW Nascar? I now have built about 9 or 10 cars for Oregon style racing over the years ... and it gets confusing what's on what.  I even have a Modena car built for an enduro at Bob's a few years ago.

Here it is y'all, a chance to get a chassis to use in the many different classes open to Bob Hanna's original Econo Car design! We race this type of chassis a lot at Howie's Rapid Raceway. They are a simple chassis and extremely fun to race! I am planning to attend the building session so I can build another one!

Will there be a purchase option for non-attendees?

Possible Monte. I already have an Econo car chassis so my build would be an extra.

HEY, you're holdin' out!

Dennis;   You take the plans of the Sportsman chassis and copy them to fit the Early Modified body of your choice. Yes they are going to be narrower and probably shorter to fit said body, but it is a copy.

Your Sportsman chassis is a home built chassis made by you. It is not a copy of the Bob Hanna chassis that we are using for the Sportsman class. I can see why you are questioning my remarks as "a copy of the Sportsman chassis" because yours is way off the mark, it is legal, but not what I had in mind when I made my statement.

The chassis class will copy the Bob Hanna chassis.

Thanks,  but I also have a nice chassis sitting here built by Beau .... apparently for a 34 Ford.  I'm getting good ideas from looking at it. It won't fit my 37 Chevy body so I have to start another one from scratch and give this one back to Ted who has been trying to help me get involved in these classes.

Fellow racers; due to the fact that my weather forecast for Sat. the 9th. of Feb. shows nothing but snow, snow and more snow, I have decided that it is better to be safe than sorry so I have decided to cancel the race for that day. We will see whether that forecast comes true or not!

I will try to make up the race before the season runs out.

My Weller 80 watt soldering iron has been acting up lately. The tip usually fits fairly snugly in the ceramic holder but when I heated it up the last time,  it was stuck in the holder and would not come out. Apparently a corrosion buildup. So while hot I shot WD40 in there to hopefully break up the corrosion then took pliers to the heating element and twisted gently at first .... then aggressively to get some results. Instead of coming loose, I managed to twist the ceramic holder out of the coiled wire holder.  I tapped lightly on it a hundred times and the round ceramic insulator cracked into 2 parts but I finally got the iron free!  After things cooled off I wire brushed the coiled wire and attempted to insert the ceramic pieces back in the coil. It worked and held together fine.

Then I heated up the iron again and ran the jaws of the pliers gently around the base of the iron tip to remove slag that has built up.  Sometimes a wire brush will do the job ... but not this time. Time now to recondition the tip by bathing it with new solder and squeezing several drops from a small syringe of soldering acid to activate the re-coating procedure.  The tip is looking good again and getting very hot ... but some joints require a heat gun blast first to get brass plate and wire hot before attempting to solder.

Note to self .... don't leave the iron on for long periods ... and recondition the tip often with solder and acid bathing!

Okay, I added weight to my chassis and re-soldered the wires, I am ready for a rematch.