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[tonyp]

I like the tip that comes with the Hakko.

[alainprost22]

Thanks for the information.

[brucefl]

Regarding the Tonyp chassis building seminar, I now have the twelve video files and will be editing them and putting them into a single file this week. Still have to figure out the correct order for them.
 
Thanks to Gary Clinton Jr for filming this seminar and to Tony for doing it!

 

Where to find the video to download.

[Cheater]

YouTube. I'm still trying to assembled the many parts into a single DVD.

[brucefl]

Where can I find the video of Tony building a chassis to download.

Hey I remember Tony delivering chassis to Hockdorf in a baggy filled with oil, that has to count for something. LOL.

[brucefl]

Will it be downloadable?

[Cheater]

Probably not; the filesize as videos are very large.

[tonyp]

DVD?

[Cheater]

That's the plan...

[tonyp]

Have you signed distribution and royalty rights with my attorney, Mr. Noose, yet?

[brucefl]

I got it let's ask Tony to produce the Tonyp chassis kit and we'll all buy it and he'll do a seminar and we'll build it and that will be the way we'll all become Tony master builders,and he could design a different chassis design in the same vintage style each month,and repeat the process,and some of us will set them up and race or frame them for display,and we could all hand these skills down to our children or grand children,pass along the tricks of the trade Tony for prosperity,you still have the design expertise,we don't have,and there'll be revenue for you,because you've earned it tony,I happy to provide this and I'm sure many of us are.

So when can this start,tony. (We'll all push a supplier to produce your kits,and the videos we'll do them to your level.

[brucefl]

Then motor building including winding and car setup for specific tracks then body painting.

Noose can you here this I'm sending the challenge to you to accept manufacturing and mentoring video, like Tony did. Now who's a taker for motors and car set-up?

[tonyp]

Interesting idea.

[brucefl]

Is it a deal tony?

Ill do what I can to help,it's all the little boys dream come true,to get this mentoring and product,hey all you guys in the day we looked up too,I was 14 in 1970 when You delivered that chassis in a baggy filled with oil.
I wasn't worthy being a novice to get one of your chassis,but they were amazing works of art (and still are what you currently build,like Andre segovia the master guitarist of blessed memory at 80 he was like a fine tuned instrument)
I'm sorry I didn't get to meet you when I lived in Springhill florida,but I hope to bring this possible project to where I am and with you guys mentor the youth and their fathers and bring the father son relationship together through a wholesome craft,hobby,and build the skills and character (tearing them away from the a.d.d creating computers).
So is it a go I'm raring to go,and bring this to fruition.
It's time has come.

[tonyp]

Sounds good. It would be fun.

[brucefl]

What's the next step,what do you need me to do,I've already got too much interest where I am,since I've talking for awhile with my friends and interested parties.

[Bill from NH]

Bruce, getting piano wire & making brass pans shouldn't be a problem, but obtaining brass droparms, like a Parma  or a Nutley, is a whole different picture. While looking for something else this afternoon, I came across one of your 2012 posts to Tony asking for vintage chassis, so you've been at it for awhile.

[brucefl]

That was me asking Tony to build it for me,this on the other hand is Tony building a monument for his legacy,by imbedding in all of us and our children,like he's done with retro he'll bring back our passion the golden age of slotcars.

I've been on and off with slotcars since 1969,I never had the opportunity to be mentored,even though I built chassis and wound arms,it's always eluded me raising my skills beyond a certain level,and the pros always kept their secrets guarded usually because of competition,but Tony has no competition he is an icon,what better than for him to benefit from his G d given gift than to share it and impart this amazing gift exponentially,as well as Tony understands,G d rewards those who pass along their blessings (his payment would be both the feeling of doing a good deed and the rewards we gain from feeling a little fraction of what he feels when he creates these artworks and we patronize his companies kits and supplies.

Sorry for being so long winded.

But yes I've yearned for this mentoring since I was little and people have always asked me what inspired me to be a dentist coming from a poor family my father dieing when I young and slotcars kept me in a place with wholesome values and many father figures and helped me developed my hand skills as well my mind,and it's never too late to develop my skills and inspire others to develop themselves as I did with the wonderful hobby such as slotcars.

[brucefl]

I'm going to uses the drawing Steve has created to build some kits to start if that's OK with Steve to get the ball rolling. I'm ready to go.

 

Tony, what do you think or is this overwhelming? Help, give me imput.

Also looking into the motor supplies wire, epoxy, comms, blanks, mags, cans, endbells, etc., etc.

[tonyp]

Where you going to get parts?

[brucefl]

Unless you want to manufacture or have manufactured for you for me or anybody who wants to go down this road, then I will prefab myself, just like the other guys building like Steve and Jairus.

[tonyp]

Let me check around.

[brucefl]

Of course Ideally you making kits one at a time for each of your classics and followed by other chassis of the time from other builders of course with your instruction videos,and future new designs by yourself.

Hopefully we'll do what the early racers did wind there own arms and build the motors and setup the cars and paint the bodies,tthen we can talk about innovative ways to build home tracks to race as tracks are quite scarse (perhaps plastic sections like before sold in home sets with a modern twist,sought like when we used to do home HO sets and have races at different home tracks)there's gotta be with modern tech and materials a way to revolutionize 1/24 scale then we've really got something.

[brucefl]

Hey Tony what would it take to revive your anglwinder kit that was from the car model magazine article with video and wire bending template,etc.etc.quickest startup for the project,I think they'll sell like hot cakes,maybe I'll buy a boatload,we just gotta figure out comparable motors that are being made now,or components to build the motors from scratch being made now,I want to get a group together soon,of the local youth and their fathers,a father and son activity.

[Bill from NH]

Bruce, Tony had 2 or 3 different chassis in Car Model  over the years. The first one had a right-side gear, build a mirrored version with gears on the left & any 16D will fit the motorbox..Its been done before.