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[Duffy]

Way off topic but when I saw the reference to the "Dolphin in the sea" this immediately came to mind.

Ohh Gawd, that just tears it. I am SOO starting an "Understanding Fred Neil 101" thread. Now.

[tonyp]

Don/Rick Yeah I forget the exact principle why a narrow rear track gets more bite in a straight line but it does. Just look at a dragster. Now a narrow rear track while cornering lets the chassis roll more which transfers more weight to the outside rear tire for more bite.

[dc-65x]

I built up the drop arm and down stop. The simple use of some aluminum rods to line the down stop up was really handy. I slipped a piece of 3/32” aluminum tube over the end of the stop to set just a tiny bit of travel:



That’s all wonderful but notice the stupid thing I did ? I’ve got the down stop hanging over not one but TWO of the frame rails . The drop arm shes-a no move .

Here’s the finished drop arm with the down stop in the Korrect place :



The finished (I hope) chassis:







Time to put the pieces together.......

[Jairus]

You very funny!

(I rarely show those mistakes... but that was classic, thanks)






P.S. Beautiful brass rod chassis!

[dc-65x]

Hey Jairus,

Yup I be a funny guy. This stuff is really fun for me. In fact it's what I "want to do all day".

Check out this video and substitute slotcars for drums :

I don't want to work...

Here's what I "banged" out tonight. Independ-a-ment front wheels with K&B vinyl front tires on our repop Russkit wheels:



A washer soldered to the axle and a pocket for it cut into the wheel....or the wheel insert would work too.

I narrowed up the rear track by cutting .025" off of the wheel and gear hubs. That narrowed the rear track by .100":



The finished roller:





It's a 1966 R&C sidewinder day at Eddie's soon:

[don.siegel]

A thing of beauty Rick!

Are you going to have a shootout between the seasoned gunfighter (AKA "Tyco Duke") and the young hotshot ("Can Dean")?

Don

[tonyp]

Ruskit Porsche body?

[Prof. Fate]

Hi

i had neither the tools or skills to do that when I was a teen in '66!

Fate

[endbelldrive]

I'm getting as large of a charge out of these "new" projects as I did back in 1966. Those 1966 R&C races got me a bending and a soldering way back when.

[Horsepower]

I tried to R&C morph it into what it might have looked like at the end of the 1966 season with the heavier cars. Or I might just be "searching for the dolphin in the sea"......... .

It's good that it's a dolphin and not a fish. You can tune a dolphin but you can't tuna fish. Love the brass work! There's something verrryyy familiar about that rear axle..........

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[dc-65x]

Ruskit Porsche body?

Truescale Russkit Porsche on the Mabuchi and Truescale Russkit Lotus 40 on the Tyco-Pittman. Both are in .020" PETG, rough trimmed and ready to test the cars with.

i had neither the tools or skills to do that when I was a teen in '66!

Me either Rocky. I think of myself as the person and age I am today but building these cars in 1966. Mr. Peabody, ready the "Wayback Machine"!

[dc-65x]

Hey Jairus, I painted another one . I don't know why but I just got "in the mood".

I used favorite paint for Butyrate and PETG.....



....got the inside of the body roughed up and masked........



....and blew the paint on. It's a dark metallic green with gold flakes along with a gold stripe:



I didn't back up the gold with the flat aluminum, but I should have:



Any who, here's the finished car....finally!







Here's the man hard at work with the "handful" that was the Lotus 40:





What? You don't recognize this livery ?

Ah....the livery is a little known one. Yeah, that's it, little known. It seems that Jack Brabham tried to qualify this car in the 1965 Australian Tourist Trophy held at Lakeside International Raceway located at Pine Rivers 18.6 miles north of Brisbane. It had mechanical troubles and failed to make the race .

And, I like metallic green and gold .

Onward and Happy New Year!

[Duffy]

Ohh My Gawd. That is the second-sexiest thing I have seen today. I swear if I wasn't married, I would DO that car.

Sorry if the above was kinda upsetting, Rikky. I treat Candor as a Virtue. Maybe more so than you lot would like, in moments like these. But there it is.

I'd still DO it, y'know.

Just sayin'.

Duffy

[Tex]

BEEYOOTEEFUL!

If I read correctly, Sir Jack bought what he thought was the latest/greatest Lotus GP car of the time, a monocoque Lotus 25, but was delivered an updated version of the non-monocoque Lotus 23. He was... "perturbed". So he went out and started building his own GP cars, winning the World Championship as a constructor, owner AND driver in 1966 in the Brabham BT-20.

Ah yes, Lakeside. I may still hold the lap record there, for '65 GP cars(Honda RA272 at least) in the racing simulation game "Grand Prix Legends"(GPL).

[spudboy]

Loverly indeed! Sir Jack needs a 5 o'clock shadow though.

[dc-65x]

That is the second-sexiest thing I have seen today.

Thanks guys. I agree the Lotus 40 is one of the swoopiest cars ever made. I know it was a dog but man, it sure looked the business! The Russkit TrueScale Body I used really captures "the look" with all the curvaceousness and chrome "bits".

Sir Jack needs a 5 o'clock shadow though.

I know he needs it but, man, it's all I can do to get some paint on his mug! You should see me trying to paint the goggles . I've got a jewelers magnifying hood on with the extra jewelers loop swung down over one eye....ity bitty paint brush with about 3 bristles shaking away.......YIKES!

Enough painting, where's the soldering iron!

[Pete L.]

Rick,

Super !

[Duffy]

...with all the curvaceousness and...

Thank God for Slotblog, where some of us can spell (and use correctly) words like these. I love the literacy of my slotty brethren. I effervesce, no, I positively coruscate with gratitude. My cup runneth over, and off at the donut.

Duffy, also pining for a New Years Party

[dc-65x]

I love the literacy of my slotty brethren. I effervesce, no, I positively coruscate with gratitude.

Oh my ....I've got "effervesce".....Gives off bubbles ......but "coruscate"

–verb (used without object),
to emit vivid flashes of light; sparkle; scintillate; gleam.

I be a gleam'n now too

Thanks Duffy!

[Pablo]

Holy Mackeral, Sapphire
That's what my old man used to say
It blows my mind

[One27ray]

Mighty fine frame and body Rick !!
I could stare at it all day

i-ray

[Alchemist]

Hi Rick,

Gorgeous gem of a car - You're a "magician"!!!!!

May I ask what type of masking tape that is please?

Thank you.

Ernie

[dc-65x]

I'm looking at the pictures and I'm thinking, the curves on that Russkit TrueScale body and that fantastic metallic green and gold color really are magical. I really like it too.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!

[endbelldrive]

Happy New Year to you too, Rick!

[miko]

Rick,

WOW!! Beautiful!!

Happy New Year!


Miko