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#86

Tip after Tip after Tip after Tip...

New Face Steve gave us a brief into to his slot car history. He comes from a model making background/career, and the tour of his house gave us glimpses of a number of Hollywood special effects creatures and spacecrafts!!! But he reckons slot car modelling is more fun than Hollywood. And it looked like Martin has had loads of fun creating the buildings, and more particularly, the interiors to those buildings, at his 'Willowbrook' track. So there is a classic car museum, cafes and press rooms galore, together with many littles stories being told outdoors trackside. Phil showed off a video of the Red Barns Raceway where he races. Again, lots of scenery ideas to get you thinking.

BigDen's got some new cars, including an NSR F white kit, and regardless of all the suggestions given on the Chat, he's going to have another crack at a psychedelic Damon Hill livery he attempted many years ago. Frank showed off his GG tyre truer recipticator. Was that a little tear in Greg's eyes as he saw yet another of his little babies out there in the big wide world doing the job it was designed for? Lots of discussion about the various options to deal with all the subtly different variations to the sliding tray type of truer available. 

Steve came back with the story of his scratch built Lotus 51 which got John excited about the molds, and Dewann cheering about the Revell track he was running them on. In another effort to confuse the opposition at the forthcoming Enduro event at Electric Dreams, he showed us 'body off' pictures of two cars he alleges he will be bringing to the event...or is he. I don't think Frank or Dennis fell for his 'smoke and mirrors' this time round...

Club Corner brought up the topic of Greg's Pioneer tyre performance dropping off over the duration of a race meet. His investigations has discovered that some of his opponents had been pushing the boundaries with regards to the level of tyre treatment undertaken, but Greg had followed his previous treatment methodology, but this time in the interests of evidence gathering. And the cleaning of the tyres at the end of the evening seems to have finally established the reason behind the grip loss. 

Mike had been wanting to race with re-fuelling at a recent race meet, but struggled to get any fuel out of the rig and into the cars at pit stops. Greg thinks he knows why, and his forensic analysis of the situation had Mike not so sure of what he had done to the extent that he invited Greg round for Christmas lunch and a session on the track after to sort it all out. This will be recipticating a recent visit by Mike to Greg's track, where Mike got so close to Greg's in the races that Greg even resorted to offering to treat Mike's tyres as a favour...

BigDen has been racing as usual and has been loitering around the bottom podium step. Perhaps he should adopt the local vernacular and put brass chassis under his cars as the winner does. A bit of chat ensued regarding the pros and cons of this. Martin was wondering about the pros and cons of the Proser 'tyre rubber'. Lots of really useful views on the product, and lots of tips on how to maximise the benefit it can offer. But the love-in for the Proser was bought to an abrupt end by possibly the most controversial statements on tyre truing from JohnU that the tyre truing accessory industry will not want spread any further...but it could save you plenty of dosh! 

Greg finished off with his Christmas Tip of the Week...3DP holders for your controller. He showed us what he had done for a client on his wonderful track, and the holders really added a neat, personalised, final touch to the race hardware. And with Christmas just round the corner, Phil gave a little shout out to TV/movie cars, and how they can bring people into the hobby who might not get so excited (to start with at least) about pure race cars.