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[boxerdog]

Could I reserve 5 please??

[Gator Bob]

Five Studebakers? ^{Yeah gimmi tree days.}
That would be a Lark of a request.

[Gator Bob]

Can I have 69 please for "Studebaker"?

Um...Steve, you have to .. like..at least put up a picture for That price.

[slotbaker]

Um...Steve, you have to .. like..at least put up a picture for That price.

Workin on it..

[havlicek]

...headed across the pond to Al "Blacklight" Bond and destined for his Balls Out Proxy car. A 16D can drilled for can mounting and with ball bearing installed, a Mura "B" motor end bell (courtesy Jairus Watson) and a #27awg "hemi" wind on a Bugenis stack and com with a drill blank shaft installed. A very strong runner:



-john

[Jairus]

Looks solid John!

[havlicek]

Thanks Jairus. The B end bell you sent was in excellent condition in all the places where it counts. That made for a real solid runner here, as the end bell is so critical in these old motors. You did Al a real solid there!

-john

[chief32s]

Ooooo! Now I'm excited. And the colour is perfect for the paint job I have in mind...How about that. EDIT: As is the Jet flag.

Thanks John, thanks Jairus.

I may have my wheels sorted also.

Lets build, build, build.

ATB
Al.

PS, This may be a daft question, but in the back of John's photo (top left) is a Rehco (I think) U-bracket. When this bracket is soldered on top of .062 piano wire what is the approximate wheel/tyre diameter needed to comply with the .062 clearance rule...Anybody?

[Jairus]

13/16"

[chief32s]

Thanks Jairus, I'd worked it out about that. Trouble is I do some calcs in imperial and some calcs in metric. I belong to the switchover generation...our school rulers had imperial on one side and metric on the other. I now work mostly in metric, but for slots its easier to work in imperial as everything is supplied in imperial sizes...and it gets me all confused hehe.

Cheers again.
Al.

[endbelldrive]

Could I reserve #42 for the "Love Machine"........

[Jairus]

Nope, that's my number Bob. Sorry.

(But GREAT name for an entry!)

[endbelldrive]

Oooops...maybe I should have read the entry list on the first page! OK...how about #99?

[Jairus]

You got it! Agent 99 it is.

Did some work on my car Friday. Ready for track testing again on Tuesday.

Brass gussets added to the front axle to strengthen it from wall hits and lower the nose weight. Going to try some laps with and with-out the removable weight. Also cut the can to get some airflow going, swapped the arm for a #26 single and dropped the gear ratio to 4:1.
No name for this machine yet.

[MSwiss]

I have some chassis parts available for sale here:
http://slotblog.net/...-chassis-parts/

[Pablo]

Tom Scott
Car # 19
Name: Choterrari

[One27ray]

A revised version of the Choti no.# 8, (3 1/8 width) I used the new Kylon hobby paint- red, not bad Not to be confused with the Choti No.# 9 version soon to be released that was painted in this color scheme.

[Jairus]

Very nice Ray! Do I see some wire tying on that chassis? Way to go.

[Gator Bob]

That body is perfectly scary Ray

[Foamy]

OK, some of you kooks were looking for motor brackets.
Well, HERE is a place that has them.
I was looking for F1 stuff and ran into the bracket. njoy. . .

[HarV Wallbanger III]

Yes REHCO brackets .... Mike Swiss sold me mine... He may have more...?

[Bill from NH]

PCH Parts Express in Oxnard, CA also carries the REHCO bracket & others too.

[JohnnySlotcar]

#72 the "Wankkat" for me! I do have several pair of the thin front wheels available.

[chief32s]

Guys,

I could have done this by PM to John, but thought it'd be nice to announce publicly that my motor arrived today, and what a tidy little thing it is too. I can't seem to put it down, and keep having to give the arm a little turn just to feel it resisting. Nice.

Thanks so much John H.

Al



PS, its a bit redder in the flesh than John's photo shows.

[Jairus]

Resistance is futile. You are one of US now.... one of us, one of us, one of us.