[BAracer]

#38

All was calm at the start of this worldwide chat as events unfolded elsewhere. It was especially calm after ChrisW showed a beautiful recent Lola T70 build with funky paintwork and the world's biggest motor...no-one wanted to follow that! Top tip for others from him was some paint that makes your car look tatty. The things he will do to win a concours.

There was some 'banter' regarding magnet racing, and the fact that if you take the magnets out of your car, you can improve the braking on your car simply by tensing up a particular set of muscles that men of a certain slot car age should do as a matter of course to maintain their wellbeing.

There were some handy tips regarding adding lights to digital cars, with details of a claimline for those who have l had their LEDs 'lost' by a certain person...

Someone had a problem with a 3D print with holes in it...I know, who'd have thought! Greg tried to help, but openly admitted he is only good for knobs, Steve was the person to go to. He wasn't on the call, so the best way forward was to glue a bit of plastic in the hole. Scratch built 3D printing, you heard it here first.

Someone had a problem with a 3D print at the wrong scale. Anyone for a new race series for 1:32 cars with 1:24 scale engines in them?

Someone had a problem with 3D printed guides, or did they...? There then followed a strangely surreal discussion on which part of a slot car should break first in a crash situation. Strangely all the 3D printers on the chat said guide first and promptly offered to sell anyone a pack of 100 breakable guides at a very reasonable price. 

And to finish the chat, following a prompt from our leader regarding lane lengths, the discussion soon deteriorated into a series of tales on how to take opponents out of races, non-violently or otherwise, without being caught (unless Greg has it on his CCTV).