Post by kevan on May 8, 2017 16:05:42 GMT -5
Hi,
I'm Kevan, raced r/c cars since '78 with a preference for 1/12th electric pan cars.
In September '15 I decided to pop down to the local slot car club as I knew one or two from the r/c club going back to the really early days. The guys were great and let me have a go of a few different cars and controllers. I loved it and over the next few weeks acquired a PWM II as I slowly sold my r/c cars and gear. One thing I learned from my decades of r/c car racing was you need a top controller to be able to get the best out of your cars so didn't faff about working my way up to what I really needed.
We race most things 1/32nd from RTR's to scratchbuilds. I quickly preferred certain classes and didn't like Slot Rally at all...that is until I got some old scaley track and made a dead simple test track which helped with tuning for rally, now this is the area I love most.
About 6 months ago I decided to try a scratch chassis using PCB and the first design worked of a sort. Much modifying, testing, hacking later and a new chassis got me started on making old scaley cars and Airfix kit cars work well as slot cars.
I'm now on chassis number 6 and love other scratchbuilders ideas. I've come to the conclusion you don't need a complicated sprung chassis to be competitive, in fact my centre pivot chassis seem to go best on flat wood tracks with the chassis taped up almost solid. Slot Rally setup however prefers soft chassis.
As with other builders I'm now getting behind on a list of project builds but have a W196 Streamliner resing body to convert. Why do resin body makers leave them so thick!
3DP chassis have been an eye opener too and work remarkably well but you just can't beat making something from bits of scrap that actually races well.
Kev.
I'm Kevan, raced r/c cars since '78 with a preference for 1/12th electric pan cars.
In September '15 I decided to pop down to the local slot car club as I knew one or two from the r/c club going back to the really early days. The guys were great and let me have a go of a few different cars and controllers. I loved it and over the next few weeks acquired a PWM II as I slowly sold my r/c cars and gear. One thing I learned from my decades of r/c car racing was you need a top controller to be able to get the best out of your cars so didn't faff about working my way up to what I really needed.
We race most things 1/32nd from RTR's to scratchbuilds. I quickly preferred certain classes and didn't like Slot Rally at all...that is until I got some old scaley track and made a dead simple test track which helped with tuning for rally, now this is the area I love most.
About 6 months ago I decided to try a scratch chassis using PCB and the first design worked of a sort. Much modifying, testing, hacking later and a new chassis got me started on making old scaley cars and Airfix kit cars work well as slot cars.
I'm now on chassis number 6 and love other scratchbuilders ideas. I've come to the conclusion you don't need a complicated sprung chassis to be competitive, in fact my centre pivot chassis seem to go best on flat wood tracks with the chassis taped up almost solid. Slot Rally setup however prefers soft chassis.
As with other builders I'm now getting behind on a list of project builds but have a W196 Streamliner resing body to convert. Why do resin body makers leave them so thick!
3DP chassis have been an eye opener too and work remarkably well but you just can't beat making something from bits of scrap that actually races well.
Kev.