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[oswald900]

Ill be looking at the cars this week only 1 car suffered damaged from round 3 and thats just a wing.

Ill give all the cars a run on Fri night 15th May and Qual will be 16th May.

Still waiting for work roster to come out and see when i can run the Round the following weekend but im hoping it will be on 23rd May Evening

Magoo and myself will be doing the finishing touches to the track tonight

[first corner crash]

Cheers.
Let us all know when you are running the round and if you need marshalls etc. It was nice to meet you guys last night and talk about the in depth world of toy cars.

[BMR]

That wing on Terrys car is a loose fitting thing , it pops out easy , at least it doesn't break out , it would be good with a bit of aqadhere glue as it dries clear but check with Terry on that , its his car . Its not snapped , it just popped out .

How about posting us a fresh picture of your track in this thread Oswald .

Edited by BMR, 09 May 2009 - 11:30 AM.

[lenny broke]

Good luck with your round Leigh, sorry I can't be there........ Damned inconvenient having my step daughters wedding around that time.

I've used that Microsol clear to hold wings in place before. Like PVA it dries clear but stays pliable.
Cheers Alan

Edited by lenny broke, 09 May 2009 - 11:47 AM.

[rick1776]

Can you make sure that your slot depth is 7.01mm deep as my guide is 7mm. Must have been the only car deslotting in a straight line on red lane. Must be only one spot on Steves track that is 6.99mm deep and my car found it every lap.

[BMR]

rick1776, on May 9 2009, 11:46 PM, said:

Can you make sure that your slot depth is 7.01mm deep as my guide is 7mm. Must have been the only car deslotting in a straight line on red lane. Must be only one spot on Steves track that is 6.99mm deep and my car found it every lap.

Gotcha

[rick1776]

I let you win every single T/A race except one and ya knobble me . Neil, Steve's not playing nice, Im gonna tell on ya.

[BMR]

rick1776, on May 10 2009, 10:58 PM, said:

I let you win every single T/A race except one and ya knobble me . Neil, Steve's not playing nice, Im gonna tell on ya.

You must be refering to the track join on the main straight , all the cars that are running at legal heights passed over it without a problem , only cars that are too low at the front hit and bump out of the slot. mmmmmmmmm is your Mosler under .75mm at the front ?
Im gonna tell on you now ha ha nobbled ya twice in a week

[oswald900]

BMR, on May 9 2009, 12:26 PM, said:

That wing on Terrys car is a loose fitting thing , it pops out easy , at least it doesn't break out , it would be good with a bit of aqadhere glue as it dries clear but check with Terry on that , its his car . Its not snapped , it just popped out .

How about posting us a fresh picture of your track in this thread Oswald .

Will be doing more work on the track during the week so ill pop some pics up later in the week

[oswald900]

BMR, on May 11 2009, 02:35 AM, said:

rick1776, on May 10 2009, 10:58 PM, said:

I let you win every single T/A race except one and ya knobble me . Neil, Steve's not playing nice, Im gonna tell on ya.

You must be refering to the track join on the main straight , all the cars that are running at legal heights passed over it without a problem , only cars that are too low at the front hit and bump out of the slot. mmmmmmmmm is your Mosler under .75mm at the front ?
Im gonna tell on you now ha ha nobbled ya twice in a week

Does this mean u need to check the height of the car

[BMR]

oswald900, on May 11 2009, 09:39 AM, said:

BMR, on May 11 2009, 02:35 AM, said:

rick1776, on May 10 2009, 10:58 PM, said:

I let you win every single T/A race except one and ya knobble me . Neil, Steve's not playing nice, Im gonna tell on ya.

You must be refering to the track join on the main straight , all the cars that are running at legal heights passed over it without a problem , only cars that are too low at the front hit and bump out of the slot. mmmmmmmmm is your Mosler under .75mm at the front ?
Im gonna tell on you now ha ha nobbled ya twice in a week

Does this mean u need to check the height of the car

Yes Yes definitely Check Rick's car for height and don,t believe him when he says "Its only low because the tyres are flat" Also remind him the wiper blades need replacing as its dangerous to the other cars around him if it rains on race day .
But seriously all the cars had plenty of room underneath and were nowhere near touching the track some were a bees whisker under 1.6 but thats ok they can be 1.2 or even less and still be ok to race.
As already stated by aastes "They all had to start the Proxy at 1.6 " From there its up to the track owners.
Bottom line if it does scrape the track it needs tyres - if it doesn't scrape the track it races

ps I must add I was dissapointed at one entrant that thought it was ok to install a metal pin as an ariel up through the car roof . It stuck up 10mm and would easily stab a marshals hand or worse short out or damage the track braid . You know who you are

Edited by BMR, 11 May 2009 - 10:21 AM.

[kalbfellp]

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1.2 or even less

Any car that is under 1.5mm at the FRONT must have been under at the start of the first round. If the rear tyres have worn then the front should now have more clearance at the front not less.

[oldslot]

ps I must add I was dissapointed at one entrant that thought it was ok to install a metal pin as an ariel up through the car roof . It stuck up 10mm and would easily stab a marshals hand or worse short out or damage the track braid . You know who you are

I did send a warning to be careful of the ariel I have the same set-up on all of my cars to protect them from roll-overs if any marshall slams his hand on the car hard enough to penetrate the skin then he is pretty heavy handed so for the next rounds please be aware of this

[oswald900]

Magoo has got a Date on Fri night now so Practice and Qual will be on Sat night now

Think i need to have a talk to him about that he should know slot cars are more important

[oswald900]

Out in the shed about to start Pactice and Qualify

Got to love wireless connection

[oswald900]

Well after having trouble with the track spent a few hours and ended up getting it going

Some real weird cars up there

This is the top 5 ill post the rest later on Sun as have to get up in 4 hours

1st TazRacer
2nd Chenglaw
3rd Slitlehales
4th DaveB
5th Ronan

Race will be run on 23rd May

[BMR]

oldslot, on May 11 2009, 07:12 PM, said:

ps I must add I was dissapointed at one entrant that thought it was ok to install a metal pin as an ariel up through the car roof . It stuck up 10mm and would easily stab a marshals hand or worse short out or damage the track braid . You know who you are

I did send a warning to be careful of the ariel I have the same set-up on all of my cars to protect them from roll-overs if any marshall slams his hand on the car hard enough to penetrate the skin then he is pretty heavy handed so for the next rounds please be aware of this

Sorry I wasn't out to offend you but I took your ariel out and threw it away , my track braid is far more expensive and time consuming to fix than a scratch in the roof of a slot car if it rolls over , worse still would be a dead short across the braid or someone breaking their cars flag out of the chassis from that steel pin falling out into the slot. A better idea would have been a bit of clear contact on the roof if you want to aviod scratches.

[rick1776]

I thought the rules clearly said no metal allowed apart from bracing behind the motor and also for repairing the guide holder?

hat coat Im outa here.

[Tazracer]

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Some real weird cars up there

This is the top 5 ill post the rest later on Sun as have to get up in 4 hours

1st TazRacer
2nd Chenglaw
3rd Slitlehales
4th DaveB
5th Ronan

" weird car "

Thought the entry from the Taz stable was quite normal , best ever qualifying result, in fact the best standing in any form of proxy results, be it qualifying, racing , anything!!

TAKE THAT DATTO!!!

[oswald900]

Ok here is the Times for all to see

Some cars are up the front i was very surprised with

NAME CAR QUALIFYING TIME QUALIFYING POSITION
Tazracer 6.327 1
Chenglaw 6.377 2
Slittlehales 6.471 3
DaveB 6.480 4
Ronan 6.501 5
Antony 6.536 6
Datto 6.579 7
Nimrod 6.589 8
Rick1776 6.597 9
Homer 6.601 10
Jas 6.611 11
Hoffy 6.628 12
Triggy 6.634 13
Haystack 6.639 14
The Stig 6.694 15
Mexico 6.699 16
Bmr 6.715 17
Oldslot 6.757 18
DaveG 6.773 19
Wizzardgm 6.833 20
Gah5 6.896 21
Imkouwl 6.905 22
Devious Dave 6.962 23
Sidecar Steve 7.100 24
Lenny Broke 7.129 25
Manimmal 7.412 26
TerryN 7.631 27

These are the comments on the cars from Qualifying

Comments

NAME COMMENTS
Terrry N A little to motor peaky, wheel spin
Sidecar Steve Good to drive out of corners, can not go in very fast as it gets taily
Manimmal Way to loose, seems to lack a little speed
Imkouwl Can get a little taily, nice little caar, can i have it
Lennybroke Nice little car, very drivable, a little taily
Triggy Seems very light but great little car to drive
Ronan Can not fault this car, it would be the one to beat
DaveG Nice car, should be up there, a bit taily
Oldslot Nice amount of power for this track, found a little taily
Rick 1776 Nice car, can not fault, should be in the top of the field
Nimrod Quick little car, can be taily around the corners, makes me want to get mine out, will be in the top of the pack.
BMR Very drivable lacks speed
Mexico2000 Would be better if it didn’t chatter
Hoffy Nice car have to watch around corners
Gah5 Car seems to lack speed no punch out of corners
Haystack Pretty hard to fault drives really well around this track lacks a little speed
The Stig Over powered for this track very taily
Wizardgm Twitchy little car
Homer Lack speed and punch out of corners would be better with more power
Chenglaw Can not fault this is another car that will be up the front
Slittlehales Very nice driveable car will be up there
Datto16 Doesnt seem quick but it is This one is a Dark Horse
Devious Dave Way under powered
Antony Quick car very surprised being big car on small track
Jaz Seems to be over powered very twitchy
DaveB Lacks low down puch and seems heavy to drive very surprising lap time
TazRacer One of the cars to beat if it wasn’t so taily would be the winner


Will upload some pics later of cars in Qualifying finishing order