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Chipping Database - GregK - 30th-Oct-19

Scalextric Corvette L-88: C7005
 
Another superbly detailed car from long ago .....
 
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Quite simply a great looking car ... nice one Scalextric .... 

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Despite the narrowness of the body, there was plenty of room beside the
motor for everything to fit in ....


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Checking the leg room for Messrs Greenwood & Smothers ....


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I'm glad I changed the yellow lights for white ones ....


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Oh yeah ............

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RE: Chipping Database - GregK - 31st-Oct-19

Scalextric Jaguar - E-Type: modified C8515
 
Another Jaguar, this time from the latest tooling, the ubiquitous E-Type .............   
 
 
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This latest tooling has much more detail than of old which comes at the
expense of the amount of plastic used ....
 
 
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There was just enough space in front of the motor to fit a new-style C8515.
The chip is canted over slightly because of the curved floor space and to
ensure clearance from the propshaft. The arrows indicate the positions for
the lighting wires.
 
 
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The underside showing the infra-red LED beacon. The curve on the front of
the chassis can now bee seen.
 
 
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The view of the rear side lights. The car is shaking around a bit as the motor
has to run for the shot. Note biro holding it in place .....
 
 
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The view of the brake lights.
 
 
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The essential headlight shot ... there is no other light than what is coming
from the screen, no flash, nothing .....

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RE: Chipping Database - GregK - 31st-Oct-19

Scalextric Jaguar - D-Type: modified C8515
 
What better than another Jag?
 

Another superbly detailed model from Scalextric .....
 
 

The prop shaft and magnet were too big to allow the chip to be fitted as in the C-Type
of a couple of posts ago. So the only space was in the boot, the flatness of this Rev H
chip clears the crown gear quite easily.
 
 

There was exactly 3mm space between the guide base and the motor vents .......   
 
 

Just getting things lined up for the final shot ..............
 
 
 
 

 
 
I'm glad that this went well without any problems as I now have another two to do ...... 

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RE: Chipping Database - GregK - 31st-Oct-19

[b][b]Ninco - Jaguar XK120: modified C8515 Rev H[/b][/b]
 
A variant of the Jaguar theme, the Olde Worlde XK120 floptop ......
 

For this car, I stripped all of the wiring off and replaced the infrared LED with one that
reached down and through the chassis. The wiring was kept to a minimum.
 
 

These cars do not have any meat in the front to anchor LEDs into so plastic tubes were
attached and dowsed in black paint to reduce the light bleed. For clarity, the wires have
not been added just yet.
 
 

This shows the rear light detail. Miniature LEDs were carefully fixed to the tubes with some
GC-Hypo cement. A couple of dabs on the resistors held them in place to aid the positioning
and soldering of the joints. The negative wire was added later, this was quite a stiff wire that
needed no support once fixed in place.
 
 

The next stage was to attach the wires from the LEDs to the circuit board.
 
 

Lights ON.......
 
 

Lights OFF ..............  
 
 

Whilst I was at it, I added another two .........  
 
 
I lurve Jags, I do

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RE: Chipping Database - GregK - 31st-Oct-19

AUTOart Jaguar - C-Type: modified C8515
 
When I was asked to chip this car, my first reaction was to turn it over to check on the motor configuration. I was not excited to find that it was an in-line and front mounted. This was going to be tricky .........  :
 
 

What is there not to like about a well detailed Jaguar, not just any Jaguar but a C-Type ... ?
 
 

With the release of the latest C8515 chip by Scalextric, I felt that if I removed the DPR
socket I could fit the chip underneath the driveshaft. This would be even easier now
because the large capacitor has been replaced with minuscule equivalents. All I needed
to do was drill a suitable hole for the infra-red LED  ...
 
 

The LED was placed as far forwards as possible, about 33mm from the back of the guide ...
 
 

The chip was dry fitted and it seemed to fit perfectly into the chassis as though it had
been designed for the car. I was not 100% happy with the closeness of the driveshaft
to the wires, so a rethink was required .......
 
 

The solution was to fit new lengthened wires and feed them out from under the chip.
Black wires for the pickups and red for the motor. The other wires to the right are for
the lights ...
 
 

The driveshaft was coupled to the motor by a somewhat bent and gnarled spring. To
straighten things up and provide a bit more insulation, I replaced it with some biro ink
tube. It now runs as  smooth as a nut ...
 
 
That's all for now folks ....... later on, I will post an addendum to show how the lights were fitted.

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RE: Chipping Database - GregK - 31st-Oct-19

Scalextric Tyrell F1: modified C8516
 
Relax ....... no more Jags for a short while ......   
 

This car has taken a very long time to do because these flattened cars have very
limited space internally. Not only that the fixtures and fittings around the back axle
are quite complex and very well stuck down with mega-supa-dupa-glue .. thanks
 
 

Originally, I was going to fit the chip alongside the left of the cockpit, hence the removed
supporting post but the circuit board was just too tall. Eventually I found that if I removed
the corner of the motor support, the chip would fit in.
 
 

The LED had to fitted with the legs bent away to the side to keep the chip as flt as
possible. The wire used was 28awg for the power and 30awg for the LED.
 
 

Everything fits and most bits are re-attached. The motor was initially replaced with a
10k one but that seemed too sluggish, so I upped it to a 13k one; I suspect that the
huge rear wheels may be the cause.
 
 

There is no doubt that when Scalextric want to produce a stunning model they do so with
consummate ease .......... 
 
 

This was the toughest car to digitise that I have done so far. If I had to do it again .......
it would still take as long and be just as fiddly, but, I do feel a big sense of achievement
in having done it.

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RE: Chipping Database - GregK - 31st-Oct-19

AUTOart Jaguar - C-Type, continued .......
 
As things were getting a little busy, I had to call on the Dangerous Brothers to help do the final fix for the lights for the car in post #5 ...
 
 

The left sided light is fixed in place first and the adhesive is allowed to dry thoroughly
before any more work can start ....
 
 

The right sided light can now be fixed into place ...
 
 

The connection between them is now made ...
 
 

The dropping resistors are now created as one unit ...
 
 

The main elements of the circuit are now in place. It just remains to connect them
into the wiring loom ...
 
 
The rear lights were completed in the same manner .....

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RE: Chipping Database - JasonB - 31st-Oct-19

Great work Greg, particularly the little people welding. Love it.

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RE: Chipping Database - GregK - 1st-Nov-19

Thanks for the nod, Jason ....... 

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RE: Chipping Database - GregK - 1st-Nov-19

Scalextric - Cooper Climax T53: modified C7005
 
This car has been sitting in my to-do box for ages. I had made a start on it following the instructions found way back in this thread though. Sadly, the photos have long gone to digital heaven. After a good old hack about with some sharp implements I postponed working on it as I never really thought that it would work ........  
 
Fast forward a few years and here we have the mutilated chassis which has been resurrected and chipping has now finished .....  
 

The extent of the earlier hacking on the chassis side can now been seen. It was
completely unnecessary as it turned out; thankfully it is hidden by the body shell.
The floor of the chassis needed a lot of leveling out. There was quite a lump of
plastic around the LED mount that needed to go as did the driver's legs and gear
shift and the other nice bits that Scalextric used to lovingly lavish upon us ...
 
 

This shows the reinforcement of the LED hole in the earliest cars to allow for
digitising, hence the floor hacking ...
 
 

The front wheels are now replaced after a bit of a thinning down to allow for the
C7005 chip to sit in between the rather over-engineered fittings.
 
 

Everything now in place and after a quick track test to make sure that the car ran
forwards and the lane-changing worked, everything was put in place to accept
the body shell ...
 
 

Other modifications made included removing the magnet, a 13k RPM motor,
industrial strength MOSFETs and super efficient diodes to provide a bit more voltage
to the motor to compensate for not using the original turbo nutter-barstud FFS
motor. The sharp eyed amongst you might have noticed the big silver capacitor
has been replace by a smaller tantalum one ....... it was the key that made the
whole job possible ....  
 
After all of these years, the job is finally finished and it ended up as a very satisfying feeling. Oh, and the car runs really sweetly ..... 

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