[BAracer]

#63

A Mid-Summer's Night Dream

CGW got us off to a strong start with a walk & talk through his Porsche 997 Proxy chassis. Shiny tyres, smooth lead, minimalist detailing, but is it all show and no go? Not according to Chris, he thinks it's a goodun...which probably means it's a real goodun! Anyway all that talk was lost in one stroke by Wayne's admission, he watches slot car proxy race videos in the shower. He was looking forward to spotting Chris's Trans-Am entry in about 3 showers time, but he probably won't see much from Denis on those. He is taking a breather from Proxies seeing how they have become more of a 'tuners' game than a scratch builders. Perhaps the appearance of 3DP proxies will get Dennis back on the pitch.

The Chat then welcomed Travis to the stage. Close neighbour to Big Den (well, about 3500+ miles), he was pushing an open door in this company with his YouTube channel of slot car unboxing (John take note) and 'showing and telling' about the products. Petruchi was on hand with a few tips and offered to help him out if he gets stuck trying to source new products for his shows. 

Travis's unboxing of a SRC Motor Magnet Measuring Thingy led us neatly into the middle 'dream' section of the Chat. I say that being someone who struggles with a lot of things electronic. I was wide awake for Alan's S-can/L-can adaptor S+T where he cut the filler piece he showed us last week in half (I think I need some of those). But then Alan showed us a relay he has bought for his SCP controller. I think I managed to pick up that he is unhappy with his controller as it doesn't have a wiper and works perfectly all the time. Now he wants to invalidate any Slot.it warranty and get it to make an annoying click all the time, or maybe I misheard him...

Courtney raised a topic that I didn't know I didn't know about, but now I do know about it and what I don't know now disturbs me. When building a proxy car, whilst it is pretty clear what type of track you are designing it for, what kind of driver/controller combination are you aiming at? Do you need to worry about the brakes on the car, or will the drivers dial in the correct amount on their controllers? Should he send a car that slides or one that chatters...which one will be most correctable by the proxy drivers? It turns out what he may need, or possibly not need, are brake pots on the drivers station to supplement the brake pot on the controllers. Everyone on the chat then took turns to try and describe how to best make brake pots on the track work with brake pots on controllers, all way beyond my electronic understanding envelope. Turn one up, and turn one down, or the other way round. Courtney looked on. 

Dwaine brought everyone back into the room with some photos of some very nice cars he had bought off Dennis. No one was interested, they were all looking at the Revell track they were sitting on. No-one had seen any of that track for years, but we then learnt that is because Dwaine has bought up all the available stock on the planet. 

The only thing nicer than nice track, is nice track with nice borders, and Brian showed off his minimalist black track borders on his home track and the catch fencing he will have to put up before he next runs his cars in opposing directions in each slot...which button on my SCP does that???