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[dc-65x]

My aluminum wheel adaptor gizmos are held onto the axle with some period Mini-Auto axle spacers:

 

 

The polished chassis with the permanently installed wheel gizmos:

 

 

For wheel inserts I want to go for this look:

 

 

I'm used Monogram Chaparral 2D model kit wheels. To turn them down to size I used my hobby lathe and held the wheel with a "pot chuck":

 

 

 

A little gold paint and a "black wash" to finish them off:

 

 

I looked into using an 0-80 stainless steel hex nut to mimic a center lock but I wasn't happy with it.

[dc-65x]

Final assembly time starting with installing the motor and some vintage Riggen lead wires..........

 

 

.........attaching the wires to the buss bars...........

 

 

.........adding some heat shrink tube wire retainers and attaching the wires to a good old JET flag:

 

 

The finished roller ready for testing:

 

 

The motor draws just under 1 amp at 3 volts:

 

 

 

The effort I spent on prepping the can for solid attachment with two screws means I can add the motor brace after testing and confirming my gear ratio:

 

[Mark Onofri]

I cannot believe it! I've been trying since 1975 to figure out what/how the "crossed hinges" on one of the four (4) cars work!!! ( The only page you don't have posted)I've tried photographing it and enlarging it, looking at it with rose colored glasses and, I won't mention some of the other stuff that I have tried to make it clearer?
Please, please tell me that you have/know WTF it is or, have a clearer picture!!!!!
😛 Over that car for
💧 Almost fifty years
PS: Martin, what are the odds on this being the article I was trying to find to share with you?

[Mark Onofri]

Damnit! Now I have to go to the Markives and find it. If I haven't been seen or, posted anything in 24 hours, send a rescue teen with Guinness (draft)

[Mark Onofri]

One last thing before I go, I have a friend who aquired the remaining stock from the New Jersey Champion factory. In regards to the magnets,
1) I used red dots all through the 80's and also white dots. Difference between them? Red dots are longer.
2)As far as the green dots, my friend had told me that All the magnets (that he aquired) were blank and, bottles of Patrica green and white paint were in with them.
3)I didn't know about blue dots until I started reading Slot Blog.
4)The yellow dots weren't available (at my local track)in 85-86 , I tried to get a set and it was a no go.
Hopefully, I'll be back soon.

[Mark Onofri]

Al Briganti's crossed hinged chassis.
PS: it a prior post,it was supposed to read "team", damn autocorrect changed it to teen. Not happening.

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[Mark Onofri]

DUH, I knew I had forgotten something.

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[Martin]

Hi Mark, one of my slot cars from 1969 has "crossed hinged" pans like you are referring to. P.M. me and I will send pics of the right pan hinging from the left side and via versa. Makes for a much larger arc   Not sure its an advantage, if it had of been I would think it would have been more widely adopted. 

[Mark Onofri]

Dave, Martin,
As far as Porsche philosophy Gos , in the beginning,Dr. Porsche designed the 356 under the pretense that it really was the Volkswagen. Not to be confused with the panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus.
I found out the hard way at Watkins Glen why the have kept the basic 356 design. They had just come out with (I can't remember the numerical designation) what appeared to be a AWD 911. They had what looked like the entire racing and engineering departments there. Being half def(and probably half in the bag) evidently I was talking waaaaaaay too loud. The comment I had made was:
What the F**F is the point of putting that much time and money in a F"**"N 911.
Having played Zappa's "Joe's Garage" for years, I was able to understand that they were very, very, pissed off at the comment. At the end of the race, I went down to where they were and, asked: "Well, what the F**K is the point?"
Lineage.

[JimR]

Zappa's "Joe's Garage". A fave.

[Mr. M]

Martin, Please post the pics you mentioned. I find this very interesting. It may be the first incarnation of a “lifter” chassis that was used on wing cars in the early 1980s. It was very effective.

[Mark Onofri]

It's the centre section that has me baffled. I've made the cross hinges several times over the past few years. The up stops ????
It almost seems like the centre is doupel hinged front and back. The front pan hinges are also "Out of Focus"(Blue Cheer didn't even make it clearer)
Hard to believe it's been almost fifty years.
This will make one more ting that I can cross* off my list of:
Tings Dat Keep Me Up at Night
😴🤤😵

[Martin]

P.M. sent Chris so as not to take away from Ricks build here.

 

Great looking chassis Rick, now the paint job? At least the weather is hot and perfect for paint, right?  at least down here anyway.

[Mark Onofri]

Earth to Martin
Earth calling Martin
Come in Martin
POST THE PICTURES
I'll take full responsibility if ANYONE gets po'd!
Please?

[Martin]

Martin to Mark P.M. sent,  over 

[Mark Onofri]

Thanks Martin
The photos were very helpful.
I do however, hope that someone/anyone has a better picture of the car I posted.

[Mark Onofri]

I hope I didn't kill the thread.
As always, another work of art.

[dc-65x]

I've been staring at this picture for a LONG time trying to decide how the body is cut and the rear wing installed:

 

 

This is the one and only real MESAC body and rear wing I have. I can't go to the local raceway and buy another one if I screw up:

 

 

I finally figured out a mounting method that doesn't risk me screwing up the body making "mystery cuts" and hoping I did the right thing to stuff the rear wing in. Plus the mounting will be good and sturdy.

 

Two small holes drilled in the body, a 1/4" wide plastic strip is drilled and tapped for 0-80 machine screws and attached to the body. The wing can be double backed taped to the plastic strip. If I painted the wing on the outside I could even permanently glue the wing to the removable plastic strip:

 

 

Here the wing mocked up with a little of that double sided tape:

 

 

The wing is sitting a tiny bit higher than with the MESAC mounting but it looks cool to me.......and I won't tell if you don't.   

 

[Larry Horner]

To my eyes (which to be honest are not great), that looks perfect!

[Mark Onofri]

The only thing that could make it over the top (as if it isn't already)is Martini & Rossi livery. I know, I know,it wouldn't be period correct.

[dc-65x]

More things to do before the body goes into paint.  

 

I often add exhaust pipes off the rear of the chassis but in the RSR's case the arms are SOOOO long:

 

 

I decided to attach them to the body inside the rear bumper. I used a couple of pieces of Evergreen plastic and some aluminum tubes:

 

 

Painted and ready to go:

 

[dc-65x]

I know I've been moving this project along slowly in an on-again, off again-fashion. My wife has just had hip replacement surgery and it has obviously been my number 1 priority. Thankfully she is recovering well and I am finding time to for some slot car business.   

 

Here is where I left off with the cool little MESAC RSR Porsche before her surgery:

 

I'm amazed I never noticed this before........the side windows are cut out so the little driver doesn't suffocate!  

 

 

After some white knuckle Xacto knife action that's done and the body has been scuffed with 0000 steel wool for paint:

 

 

Here's my little driver head checking out the surroundings before his detail painting:

 

 

I painted the interior with Tamiya dark red. It's the color interior I'd want a full size 911 to have to go with my favorite Porsche exterior color:

 

[Martin]

Good health to you both Rick, everything else comes second 

[Larry Horner]

I second Martin and wish her a speedy recovery! But that really is a lovely shade or red.

[Bill from NH]

The open side windows will allow the body to flex more. Those dash clusters could use some of Martin's gage faces & a glass-headed or plastic-headed pin for the gear shift. Nice job!