Decided to clear out some of my slot car collection.

I have these unused Sideways cars for sale £55 each (including UK postage)

The Ferrari 512BB/LM, FGT, and Porsche 935-78 Moby Dick still have plastic inserts in the box as supplied. But none of these cars have been run on the track.

                      

Interesting article on the Geekdetour webpage.

https://geekdetour.com/3d-printing/blobs...e-problem/

For those of us using SD cards in the printer to print from, then by default most printers will periodically dump information during printing back on to the SD card. Depending on a number of factors, i.e. the model complexity, printer processing power, SD card write times etc, the printer can actually pause in printing and allow a blob to form on the part. This was noticeable on complex bodyshells where a random blob would appear every few layers.

   

Adding the G code from the GeekDetour website, to the Start G code (for Cura, select printer then Machine settings and cut & paste the code in)

   
Added code in red box turns off the write cycle.

Here is another body after doing this and the blobs are gone.

   

Enjoy
John.

'Mr Hornby' Simon Kohler has announced his retirement at the end of May. LINK  He has been the public face of the company since God was a lad and I wonder who will replace him. I don't suppose the Scalextric side of things will be much affected though as he hasn't had much to do with that side of the business for many years.

1/24 Formula 1 slotcars? Yes, that's possible, with kit bodys. Chassis available, see here:



Nico

Link to listening options: Ep19 Talking Utter Slot

The Not-the-Coronation Special. This week we discuss, amongst many other things, is it possible to avoid Can-Am, what was in Scott's parcel last week and doing stoppies with a Carrera M1.

There's more Fassbender love/gushing from Pedro and Scott shares some red hot investment advice (Warning : the value of your slot cars can go down as well as up.)

Oh, and Eighties hip-hop stars Run-DMC's excellent decals get a mention. Walk this way.

So I thought I would have a play see how I get on with 3DP software, and was toying with a loco chassis idea.
I have some overhangs and the oval cut-outs, would these cause and print issues ?

   

Presumably car and loco chassis best printed using a PETG rather than PLA for better durability ?
No I haven't bought anything, just thought I would have a play 

We have a new and fairly substantial motor racing history section which we've added to the site. It could be encapsulated by just three letters, BRM, but in truth the full story would make a decent sized  book.

       

The inspiration for our new section came from a British Racing Motors team mechanic, Dennis 'Sheriff' Perkins who worked for the team for well over a decade from the mid 1950s onwards, and who took photos throughout his time with the team.

       


Of course Perkins wasn't a professional photographer, he was first and foremost a BRM  mechanic. In fact he was so good at his job that he was elected to membership of the BRDC, being proposed by Graham Hill and seconded by Jackie Stewart.

       

But he took photos of some important motor racing events, and he took his photos from a different angle to the press, or the spectators. He snapped his pics from behind the scenes, from the oil stained pit boxes, from the workshops, or even from the team transporter which he drove across the continent in his slippers.

       

Through his photos we will tell the story of British Racing Motors, from the disastrous and all too obvious failings in the early days, through to being world champions and one of the most consistently successful teams in Formula One at their peak, before they were brought back down to earth with a bump, as the team declined.

       

BRM had always set out to match and beat the best in Formula One. To do that, they absolutely insisted that they should build their own engines as well as the chassis. They wanted to take Ferrari's approach, and when it worked, it really worked, but when it didn't, it really didn't.

       

We have to thank our very own Brian Rogers for unearthing this priceless hoard of original photos. Many thanks also to John Perkins, son of Dennis, for his kind permission to use the photos. Most of all though we have to thank Dennis Perkins himself, not just for his sterling work for BRM, but also for recording his time with the team.

Nowadays of course, we can expect a netflix documentary for every F1 race, no matter how insignificant. But in those days there were a very limited cohort of press reporters and photographers. So this little treasure trove of photos from the pit lanes and paddocks of the 1950s and 1960s are important.

We've tried our best to tell the stories of not just BRM, but of the individual races for which we have photos, many of which have their own fascinating tales to tell.

       

We've also tried to tell the story of the BRM drivers and the BRM cars. We've used a wide variety of sources for all of the information, including contemporary reports.

       

We've also included slot track plans for every circuit, and a comprehensive list of BRM slot cars.

       

So there you go, that's a rough outline of what we've got for you, hope you enjoy having a look and a read.

BRM, the Inside Story

Can anyone suggest where I can get 3mm gear to fit Scalextric sport axle ?  Or does someone have one they would part with, 27t, ta