Anybody ever heard of him?
Thanks,
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Team Checkpoint - Bill Dell?
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, Dec 17 2012 11:47 PM
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Posted 17 December 2012 - 11:47 PM
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Posted 18 December 2012 - 02:03 AM
He was a SoCal racer in the early '80s. Raced a lot with John Skeels.
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Posted 18 December 2012 - 08:38 PM
Was he a member of Team Checkpoint?
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Posted 19 December 2012 - 12:35 AM
If you mean Bill Steube's Team Checkpoint, ahhh, that would be a no.
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Posted 19 December 2012 - 01:46 AM
I own this roller now (wanted the wheels) so I can show it:
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Posted 19 December 2012 - 03:30 AM
I don't believe that motor with the elephant ears and the slotted can is period correct for the chassis it's in. The chassis is about five-six years older I think...
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Posted 19 December 2012 - 03:32 AM
The motor may date from when Big Jim was using the Checkpoint name in the late '70s.
Also I would guess the arm in that motor is wound to run with the gear on the other side of the chassis...
Also I would guess the arm in that motor is wound to run with the gear on the other side of the chassis...
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Posted 19 December 2012 - 07:04 AM
Yeah, I know the chassis is about 1968 and the motor is an Intl 15 from about ten years later...
The main thing I wanted was the wheels... the rears are Associateds...
The main thing I wanted was the wheels... the rears are Associateds...
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Posted 19 December 2012 - 11:23 AM
The chassis is a 1969 Phaze III model, the motor a Mura C-can based job circa 1979-1980.
Bill Steube had long sold the Checkpoint business when Bill Dell was a team member.
I have a box full of these motors that i need to restore for the LASCM, that came from John Skeels... they are quite nicely built and apparently were quite good, that is until the advent of the samarium-cobalt mags put them to pasture...
Bill Steube had long sold the Checkpoint business when Bill Dell was a team member.
I have a box full of these motors that i need to restore for the LASCM, that came from John Skeels... they are quite nicely built and apparently were quite good, that is until the advent of the samarium-cobalt mags put them to pasture...
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Posted 19 December 2012 - 12:00 PM
Pablo,
That chassis could have been my weekly race car with a B-can group 12 motor in the 1969-1975 timeframe. I think mine all had drop arms with holes in the arms, but otherwise look the same as yours. I gave one of them away, but still have a couple chassis in the cellar for a possible refurb,
That chassis could have been my weekly race car with a B-can group 12 motor in the 1969-1975 timeframe. I think mine all had drop arms with holes in the arms, but otherwise look the same as yours. I gave one of them away, but still have a couple chassis in the cellar for a possible refurb,
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Posted 19 December 2012 - 12:50 PM
Thanks, guys.
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I know what I need to do now...
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Posted 19 December 2012 - 01:05 PM
The 1969 Phaze III chassis must have been very popular on the East Coast, because they come up quite often at auction. They all need their soldering joints renewed because they were assembled in an oven using "paint solder" that has to be the worst cr*p in the history of solder!
Once re-soldered, they are fine and handle great!
Once re-soldered, they are fine and handle great!
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Posted 19 December 2012 - 08:19 PM
That's the plan. 
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Posted 19 December 2012 - 08:32 PM
For a short period of time, Bill Dell and John Skeels ran as Team Checkpoint. They had nothing to do with Stuebe but most likely with Jim Greenmeyer who was building motors and marketing parts as Checkpoint (notice no TEAM).
Unless you changed the armature, you do realize the motor is designed to run with the gears on the other side of the chassis, don't you?
(The motor is running backwards!)
It'll probably run really hot and probably burn up very quickly in this configuration.
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Posted 20 December 2012 - 04:55 AM
Thanks for the info.
It was an EBay find. I haven't even got my hands on it yet.
Yes, obviously the motor is backwards.
No matter, the motor doesn't belong in that roller anyway.
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