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[Courtney S]

Any body know anything about this , it looks like the poster has very little info

 

https://www.ebay.com...hQAAOSwFVRfKHlx

 

 

[Alchemist]

I saw this info at the bottom of page:

 

 

Slot Car Track. Condition is Used.

Fits 1/18 & 1/24 Scale

Approx. foot print 20' x 60'

Track length approx. 200'

Old wiring with track, will need to be rewired when assembled.

 

 

I believe this was the Morgan Hill track that had been mentioned recently but no photos were provided.

 

 

Hope this helps!

 

Ernie

[Chris Dadds]

That's a 220 Engleman layout with honors to Stan Engleman who built a bunch of them in the 60s, except it was upgraded to 4.5" lane spacing and a slot path that brought the benefits of the newer ovoid style to all lanes on all the turns.

Having built that track around 1993 I know a little something about it. Memory may have faded a bit over time but I remember it being 19.5 x 60 feet footprint. 220 running feet.  It's fast too! That far bank is set to well over a 50 degree angle.  It originally was commissioned by a shop in Fresno California.

As far as the wiring goes, If it really is the unmodified original harness it just needs to be reconnected. Where people get confused with my 1990s vintage harnesses is that they think all the wires should run directly to the taps or the drivers plates but they don't realize that they were designed so that every tap lead was the same length and every wire from the relay panel to the drivers plates was the same length. And every stretch of braid on the track was the same distance from each tap to the next, with the positive and negatives spaced equally apart.  The reason for that is that every foot of wire or braid has some quantity of resistance to it and if you want the power to be even everywhere around the circuit and from lane to lane, you need to have all the leads the same length.  Then you fold the extra wire back on itself and tuck it up out of sight.

Each section of that track was cut from 5' x 10' sheets of 1/2"MDF and I remember that there were too many sections for them all to fit  in a 12' box truck. I had to pull a trailer behind the box truck that trip.  I do remember there was a smaller figure 8 ordered with it. I really don't remember how big a trailer I'd pull at the time.

Hope this helps!