4th-Jun-21, 04:28 PM
#59
"It's not rocket science..."
How do you make Eurosport cars go faster? Don't race them for a year or so and them give them a go..."Just WOW" said Chris about their speed after he tried them out again,which in everyonelses language means "Double WOW". Dennis showed us pictures of one of these cars. They are just one small shovel blade that moves a lump of air out of the way to keep them stuck down on the track. [You see, that's not rocket science]
JohnK showed us how his scratch brass chassis making techniques are developing. Learning in public is never fun, but then he showed us one with really nice soldering. Now THAT is how to do it. It wasn't done by him though, it was by his daughter [again, no rocket science involved]
How much is a Cox Chaparral worth? "Loads of Money" if it's the right model, with the right wheels, in the right box, with the right bubble packaging with the right cast manganese chassis. $1000 probably, but you only have to use your eyes to see all the detailing in them to understand why [not rocket science]
Ortmann urethane tyres, how hard is it to find those in the UK? Very, as Chris has all the remaining stock of original "stick like glue" examples in Canada. Give Greg access to Google Earth and he might be able to pin point the warehouse they are stored in for you [so some use of rocket science there]
Blueprinting of 1:24 brass racing chassis is an artform only matched by Formula 1 car designers with their interpretation of loopholes in regulations [rocket science would probably help here, if it was allowed within the rules]
The solving of why a newcomers Carrera cars cut out whilst racing one day, then worked fine the following was solved by some clever, logical, detective work [not rocket science]
Dennis is making smaller and smaller brass chassis. He showed one where he had to first make a set up plate in order to then make the chassis. All he used was some CAD and a milling machine [not rocket science]
It was suggested that some of the most recent advances in our hobby have been in the area of power supplies and electronic controllers [so yes, direct correlation with rocket science]
And then we finished off with some refreshing thoughts from Brian. He has a 45ohm resistor controller but it doesn't suit all his cars. The rocket scientists on the chat were screaming "electronic controller" into their headsets. But no, Brian didn't want to go down that route, he was looking for the purity that comes with a resistor and a spring. But talk about kicking a rocket scientist when they were down, he reminded them about his vintage drag strip where you have to change gear on the controller when your car reaches a certain trigger point along the strip. But rather than trying to refurbish what he had, he now just changes resistor controllers when the cars get to that part of the track...
"It's not rocket science..."
How do you make Eurosport cars go faster? Don't race them for a year or so and them give them a go..."Just WOW" said Chris about their speed after he tried them out again,which in everyonelses language means "Double WOW". Dennis showed us pictures of one of these cars. They are just one small shovel blade that moves a lump of air out of the way to keep them stuck down on the track. [You see, that's not rocket science]
JohnK showed us how his scratch brass chassis making techniques are developing. Learning in public is never fun, but then he showed us one with really nice soldering. Now THAT is how to do it. It wasn't done by him though, it was by his daughter [again, no rocket science involved]
How much is a Cox Chaparral worth? "Loads of Money" if it's the right model, with the right wheels, in the right box, with the right bubble packaging with the right cast manganese chassis. $1000 probably, but you only have to use your eyes to see all the detailing in them to understand why [not rocket science]
Ortmann urethane tyres, how hard is it to find those in the UK? Very, as Chris has all the remaining stock of original "stick like glue" examples in Canada. Give Greg access to Google Earth and he might be able to pin point the warehouse they are stored in for you [so some use of rocket science there]
Blueprinting of 1:24 brass racing chassis is an artform only matched by Formula 1 car designers with their interpretation of loopholes in regulations [rocket science would probably help here, if it was allowed within the rules]
The solving of why a newcomers Carrera cars cut out whilst racing one day, then worked fine the following was solved by some clever, logical, detective work [not rocket science]
Dennis is making smaller and smaller brass chassis. He showed one where he had to first make a set up plate in order to then make the chassis. All he used was some CAD and a milling machine [not rocket science]
It was suggested that some of the most recent advances in our hobby have been in the area of power supplies and electronic controllers [so yes, direct correlation with rocket science]
And then we finished off with some refreshing thoughts from Brian. He has a 45ohm resistor controller but it doesn't suit all his cars. The rocket scientists on the chat were screaming "electronic controller" into their headsets. But no, Brian didn't want to go down that route, he was looking for the purity that comes with a resistor and a spring. But talk about kicking a rocket scientist when they were down, he reminded them about his vintage drag strip where you have to change gear on the controller when your car reaches a certain trigger point along the strip. But rather than trying to refurbish what he had, he now just changes resistor controllers when the cars get to that part of the track...
I love puttering with gears
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