[Tibbs]

Hello Tibbs,.....you may want to consider soldering the guide tongue on a horizontal plane with the chassis main rails, this will result on the guide being on a level plane (much better than nose down),  and this will also eliminate the need for you to bend the guide tongue (finnicky). As well soldering the guide tongue to the chassis main rails will lower the gg. of the chassis (never a bad thing).

You should also consider buying some guide spacers (Pendle has a wide variety).....these spacers will allow you to alter the front end ride height (for different tracks....raised rails or recessed braid), without having to reposition your guide tongue or front axle tube. They also are used to take the verticlal "slop" out of the guide.

Lastly, screw in guides in conjunction with guide spacers allow for a more precise fitting guide, one without slop in any direction...........you can either buy screw in guides or,.......cut the "fingers" off of you existing guide, drill a small hole in the guide post, and use a small screw and a washer to secure the guide.

I am attaching a few chassis shots that may give you a few ideas.

Cheers
Chris Walker

The guide tongue is soldered to a cross piece (on top) at the front of the chassis,..the guide tongue is "flat" with the chassis. Note the guide spacers between the guide and the guide tongue, and the screw in guide.













Gday Chris, this is wonderful help mate. I'm printing this advice off and keeping it in my slot car note book I use. Looking at your pics I completely see what both you and Kev are saying.
As you know this is my very first crack at a scratch build and this information is gold dust to me. 
Do you mind if I save these photo's for reference on my laptop?
I've got two 50's 60's midget shells I will be scratch building the chassis' and I will use your information re the tongues on those.
I can't bring myself to remove this tongue as it's my first and I think will be a great learning curve to keep it and use your experienced method on the next ones.
I can see that how it won't be as finnicky like you say.

I'd love to take this on to a big wooden track at a club but I don't know if the local one to me allows it, saying that I'm not sure if my local is back up and running yet as they had a roof leak when I was hoping to go for the first time last year.

I can only aspire to this level of building, these chassis are beautiful.

Question re the guide with the screw and washer, how does it swivel with it screwed like that? is it only screwed lightly?

Cheers
Tony