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[Bill from NH]

Here I thought this was supposed to be a gallery of scratchbuilt chassis, rather than of text messages. Rick, yes I remember Mr. Kirby. How about the Democratic Midwest senator who used to run for president? Paul ...?

[Rick]

Here's a pair of Samurias heading East, maybe one will be raced at Sonnys, next Sunday? One floppy version, one torsion version. Both weigh in at 52 grams. 4" wheelbases, 7/8" guide lead. F1 and Stock car also going out that way. As Rick would say---ONWARD!

[Phil Irvin]

Jeez, we're old.

Hey....I'm 39.......been 39 for 23 years now I JUST DON'T WANT TO GET OLD

PHIL I.

[Rick]

HAd to throw together another stock car, we might have another racer with us this Saturday. Right now it's a toss up between ElDora, World 100 and Fat Boys. LOL

[Josh Crutchfield]

Here is my first attempt at the Slick 7 F1. I'm not a big fan of torsion cars so I came up with something else. The mainrails are .047 and were sleeved with 1/16 OD / .047 ID tubing to fit the chassis slots. The pans are hinged with the same tubing.
The wheelbase is 4.125 and the GL is 4.875 and the chassis weighs 49.6 grams.

[Mopar Rob]

Working on the next project, well at least on paper.

It's a R-Geo Samurai that will get a little TLC.

[Rick]

Nice-lookin' chassis.

[macman]

Not my first build, but first one I'm putting here...

I think this is about as far as I am going with this one until I test it on a track... Two .062" brass tubes with .055" piano wire center rail and spacers... Nosepiece is .062" brass, REH bracket... Pans don't match, found them in a scrap box, but they were the right width for what I wanted to do... 4.5" wheelbase for stocker. May have some more to do on front end.

[GTPJoe]

OK,

So everyone's built a kit chassis and now I have, too. It's a Warmack, nothing unusual, just I finally got to it.

Body is a MAC Ti22.

[Pablo]

Awesome, Joe !

Bushings in the bracket itself, and alum spacers, is that right ?

[GTPJoe]

And...

There was a flurry of activity around a tripod based chassis so I tried my hand at one of those. too. Mine's a little "dodgy" as they say but it's finished...

[GTPJoe]

For those that like the shiny brass goodness here's another.

The difference here is the main rail is brass .078" (2mm really) so lots of brass on this unit. Again nothing special but fun to do.

The hand-cut front piece resembles the "M" of Michigan University. So this is the Wolverine chassis...

[GTPJoe]

Pablo,

Good eye!! Yes ball bearings in the bracket and aluminum spacers hand cut from tubing.

See ya!

[Tex]

Hey, Ben!

I'm intrigued by the idea of mixing the .062" brass tubing and .055" piano wire; let us know how it works.

[Mopar Rob]

Mine's a little "dodgy" as they say but it's finished...

My friend has a saying, "Done is better than perfect".

[Rick]

I'm intrigued by the idea of mixing the .062" brass tubing and .055" piano wire; let us know how it works.

It results in some jiggle that works well.

[macman]

Thanks, Rick...

I got the idea from the Samson F1 build, but did it more of a JD style center section... hope it works...

Will the plumber setup work, or should I convert to floppy pans???

[vdel11]

Here are some pictures of my Can-Am Jail Door chassis and jig set up.

I still have to make the drop arm and motor brace. When I cut the rear axle tubes too short after they were installed, I realized I would not be able to have parallel rails front to back. This resulted in some cool bends at the motor bracket end.

Might not be legal but is was a blast to build and looks much cooler than a brass pan chassis.

Business isn't too good at this time so instead of jig wheels I used another method to set up the axle heights with Rick's Infinity jig.

[Tex]

Looks like a keeper, Vince!

[911GT3]

Vince,

Looks great. Hope to see it at the next (Friday?) race.

[vdel11]

Finished! I think these Jail Doors define retro slot car. They just have a real scratchbuilt look about them.

[Duffy]

Finished! I think these Jail Doors define retro slot car. They just have a real scratchbuilt look about them.

Totally agree, dood. Bending brass is perfect human-size finger fun.

I love all the snaking-around of the rods in the rear, a real "Slithery Jungle Tail" to be sure.

Duffy

[macman]

Hey, Ben!

I'm intrigued by the idea of mixing the .062" brass tubing and .055" piano wire; let us know how it works.

Got to run this chassis on our new king track in Mooresville sat nite, it rocked was great everywhere but the leadon, probably needs some lead at the back of the pans... I ran it with a NASTRUCK body since I didn't have aretro stocker to use,,, It worked VERY well, was able to hang with the 16-d flexis w/ COT bodys... the 3rail w/plumber worked well... I'm happy

Chassis is post #183

[Phil Irvin]

Hey, Ben!
I'm intrigued by the idea of mixing the .062" brass tubing and .055" piano wire; let us know how it works.

Back when I was a babe . I liked the double wire chassis. I found that using .062 & .055 spaced with .062 wires to the axil tubing. I could change the handling to suit the track. Meaning. I set mine up loose for glued tracks. If they were too loose. I would solder in pin tubing between the wires to stiffin up the chassis. Tighten it up for no glue or lite glue.
Its a lot easier to tighten up a chassis than to make it loose. I like floating body mounts for that reason. Too loose..Tape the body to the rear pin mount solidly to the wing will tighten it up. Its an old tuning trick thats new again.

OLPHRT
PHIL I.

[Craig]

Mike Who? is getting a new ride.

He's now going to join us and race Retro Pro over here on the left coast.

Check out my latest build....Based on a Bob "The Stork" Crane platform.

Features:

M&M style nose piece custom made for me by Rick Bennardo
Double .055" main rails
.055" plumber rails
.1875"x.0625" pans
.055" bite bar
4.75" overall length
.75" guide lead
3.875" wheel base
S7 guide tongue



Now I only have two left to build!