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#67

"SlotRacer.Online Worldwide Slot Car Chat Reviews  5.0*****(1)"

Frank was introduced to the Chat as a newcomer to the hobby. But he is setting the bar high if being a newcomer means you have to own at least 350 cars...and have them neatly displayed in cabinets...in a garage with a nice landscaped track...which has a name! Dwainn set him straight however, you are a newcomer until you have watched all the previous Chats, and he has just got that monkey off his shoulder and passed it onto Frank. Now if anyone wants to catch up on all the Chats before next week's get together, I have calculated you need to watch them for 18.8hrs a day. However, to save time, you could follow Greg's glowing endorsement and read the excellent reviews of each episode here on Slotracer.Online instead.

John K gave us an update on Greg's Christmas present. After a bit of persuasion, G bought into the story that it was going fine, and that all those different coloured shaped pieces will all blend together into a little gem.

Greg mentioned again about the dream he had had of a Sunoco liveried Pioneer legend car, which got everyone hurrying to their second screens to try and prove they did actually exist. Travis won the game by pretending to find one and promising to get one for him 'shortly'. Greg was left dangling for another week...

And then we had the story from Greg as to where he was last week. He had gone over to 'the far side', but had returned, a bit like a Hobbit. He had been to a Magic Kingdom full of big little HO tracks with lots of HO cars, 22 quarrelling drivers, and as many takeaway meals as you can eat. The cars were fast, but not as fast as some other HO cars, but they had crazy wide wheels and rotating gears on show, it was all very Mad Max in miniature. Or as he put it, he was in a strange land, meeting a house full of strange people, racing strange cars on strange tracks. But he had great fun and made lots of new friends, and, I think I heard him right, managed to sell three cars to these HO experts. Not sure what kind they were, but he bought three allsorted crackers to replace them, one fast one, one slow one, and one without a body. Perhaps he should have done the deal before they went to the Mexican restaurant to celebrate the end of the meet. But what this story also highlighted, and which was repeated by the other HO enthusiasts on the Chat, was that HO racing sharpens your reactions and your trigger finger/eye co-ordination. And as a consequence, a lot of the top racers in 1:32 clubs turn out to be HO racers on the side.

And to finish off this Slot car meal, the final course was dished up by Wayne who had discovered that his Tyre Razor truer could be truer...it was not producing the same size diameter goods on the left hand end of the axle to the right hand end. And others on the Chat had experienced the same problem. And someone on the Chat possibly knew how to solve it. You had better watch to find out how.

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