189 replies to this topic

[MSwiss]

While not nearly as good of a thermal conductor as aluminum, I'm pretty sure you'll find that brass plate getting warm when running more than a few laps.

You could also cut notches (to create "fins") in it for a little more surface area.

A little info on thermal grease.

[j-slot]

Here are my recent work.

I'm going to test them on this Saturday.









Akitani

[slotcarone]

Beautiful chassis designs and workmanship!!! They look like they will survive a wreck pretty well too!!

[usadar]

I have just received two complete Can-Am chassis from John Gorski.

The one is "Victory Bat Pan."





The other is "Tokyo Rose," a Hanada Can-Am Chassis, built by John with his famous flat rails as the main rails of the chassis.





Haruki

[usadar]

For the chassis posted in the above thread, I need new bodies and drivers.

Having had a wisdom tooth extractedlast Tuesday, I felt so tired that I came home earlier than usual these days.
To forget the pains in mouth, I painted 8 Can-Am interiors at a time.
Now, I will have to paint EIGHT bodies.

Good racing.......& painting,

Haruki

[Noose]

You sound like me working, LOL

[Bill from NH]

Very nice looking interiors, Haruki! I like how you were able to paint 8 at once, yet giving each a unique look.

[usadar]

You sound like me working, LOL

Hi, Noose,
That was my last wisdom tooth, meaning I will not "work" like this again.

Very nice looking interiors, Haruki! I like how you were able to paint 8 at once, yet giving each a unique look.

Hello Bill,

Thanks for your compliments.
Mostly I used Sharpies.
Its silver is very good, much better than Japanese markers in that color.
I also used Japanese markers(water-based) with sparkles.
To me, who is not a good painter,it is much easier than to use brushes.

Haruki

[yoshi]

Hi　Bryan　and　Haruki　san

Im　in　here　、Now　Im　Racing　prafit　car　at　Totsuka　Japan
with　DPM　2nd　winner　Mr　Kudo
Haruki　san
Where　is　your　Blue　king　？

Bryan

How　is　everybody　Doing　Well？
Mike/steube　boomker　Keith　and　your　best　friends　Subaru　owner？

IM　live　in　tokyo　kamakura！！　　　

Bryan,

I have asked D3 racers here about Yoshi but nobody knows him.
Maybe he is a Pla-Fit guy.
I am going to send a PM to Yoshi through this blog.

Haruki

[The Bugman]

Yoshi-san;
so wonderful to finally hear from you,
glad you are still racing slotcars,but you must connect with Haruki-san & the D3 racers in Tokyo,,it will bring back great memories from when you raced with us at Buena Park Raceway.
good luck and good racing

Oscar Morales

[usadar]

Hi　Bryan　and　Haruki　san

Im　in　here　、Now　Im　Racing　prafit　car　at　Totsuka　Japan
with　DPM　2nd　winner　Mr　Kudo
Haruki　san
Where　is　your　Blue　king　？

Bryan

How　is　everybody　Doing　Well？
Mike/steube　boomker　Keith　and　your　best　friends　Subaru　owner？

IM　live　in　tokyo　kamakura！！　　　

Akiyama-san,

BPR racers have been asking about you since I went to see the Checkpoint Cup last year(2010).
My Blue King is located in Nerima.
We have started Tokyo D3 Race since this February.
You can see our activities at Keith's site:http://socald3.phanfare.com/5251284
Please contact me through PM of this Slotblog.

Haruki

[j-slot]

I have just finished building a new Can-Am chassis.
It is the same concept one which I entrusted to Marc Franco at the Western States.





New bodies for the seventh Tokyo D3 which will be held on this Sunday.





Akitani

[JerseyJohn]

Works of art...

[usadar]

I have just finished building a Can-Am chassis with a Slick 7's chassis plate and a Hanada 1-inch-wide four rail motor bracket.
The motor bracket is a short version; a motor is placed closer to a rear axle by 1.5mm (.059 inch).
All the rails are .055" wires.
A bite bar restricts the movement of pans, rear parts of which are cut off for weight reduction.
The chassis weighs 55.7 grams.





If a car with this chassis works well today (Saturday), I will race it at our Tokyo D3 Can-Am race on Sunday.

Haruki

[Phil Smith]

I have just finished building a new Can-Am chassis.
It is the same concept one which I entrusted to Marc Franco at the Western States.

Nice work. The main rails are very interesting. How does the car handle?

[Phil Smith]

I have just finished building a Can-Am chassis with a Slick 7's chassis plate and a Hanada 1-inch-wide 4 rail motor bracket.
The motor bracket is a short version; a motor is placed closer to a rear axle by 1.5mm(.059inch).
All the rails are .055 wires.
A bite bar restricts the movement of pans, rear parts of which are cut off for weight reduction.
The chassis weighs 55.7g.

If a car with this chassis works well today(Saturday), I will race it at our Tokyo D3 Can-Am race on Sunday.

Haruki

Good looking chassis. Neat idea to use earring backs to brace the bite bar mounts.

[Bryan Warmack]

Haruki,

All great stuff coming out of Cheerio Speedway!!

Here is the Hanada kit which you gave me at the Western States. I used the rear motor plate also. 101 grams. Wish me luck as I will be running it tomorrow at BPR in the D3 Can Am!!

Say hello to Yoshi for myself and everyone at BP!!

[usadar]

Congrats on your third place finish at the BPR race on Sept 10!!

Here in Tokyo, all of us are impressed with your creativity and craftsmanship.

Good Racing,

Haruki

[usadar]

I have to put a couple of new bodies on the chassis made by John and myself and am going to build another F1 chassis with a Hanada kit.



So I have painted a couple of interiors.



I have got a plenty of nice painted bodies and interiors from Noose but I keep those in my closet because they are too nice to put on my chassis and race and crash.











Painting interiors is a kind of addiction to me.[ img]http://slotblog.net/public/style_emoticons/default/crazy.gif[/img]

Haruki

[j-slot]

Here are some pics of my latest build.

Can-Am







F1







I will test them this Saturday.
I hope they work well.

Akitani

[Tex]

I dig that Can-Am, Akitani-san... clean and square.

[j-slot]

I have built another new F1 chassis.





4.00" wheelbase.
5.00" guidelead.
Slick 7 retro guide tongue.
Hanada motor bracket 0.047 thick.
51 grams as shown.

It is for the Checkpoint race???

Akitani

[j-slot]

Completed.

Ready to race.





Akitani

[usadar]

A Happy New Year, D3 & Retro Racers,

Akitani-san is one of our master builders of Retro chassis, whose builds have been presented in this topic.

Another builder, Kamo-san has just sent me the photo of what he has done for building two chassis, one for himself and the other for me for the Checkpoint Cup.



I am so impressed with his way of building chassis, it is so organized!!

We have such excellent racers/builders as Akitani & Kamo-san at Tokyo D3, which makes me so happy to have started this racing program here in Tokyo after a long absence of real slot racing activities for 15-20 years.

Good racing,

Haruki

[usadar]

The next stage of Kamo-san: to build the main sections:



Stay tuned,

Haruki