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[TSR]

Tore,
I searched Google for "goggels" but this is what it gave me...

Did you mean: goggles?

Welcome to the Dyslexia Slot Car Club of Orange County!

[Toremeister]

Correction on Steube's latest Can-Am car. His spring-loaded side pans are .025 piano wire, not .032 as I stated earlier. Mike's daughter's car packed up on her and he's been way too busy with repairing this and that, but sez he's good to go for Saturday's 1/32nd scale TSRF 2-hour Enduro. :up:

[TSR]

Tore,
We have a bar stool for you...

[Toremeister]

Stinkin' stool won't do me any good unless there is a bar table ta lean on also.

[TSR]

We can arrange for that but it costs extra. :|

[Larry LS]

DC65x,

I get this stuff at a local welding shop. I use the bronze brazing rod also. This is the name and specs here. It comes in a nice plastic square tube. I get it in one pound quantiies.

Specs are --

Name = ProStar brand

Alloy = 15 Bare ??

Heat = Z5060ll- A290 ??

Listed as low fuming Bronze Rod

Brazing rod for- steel, copper, copper alloys, nickel & nickel alloys

One pound equals about 30, 3 foot rods.

It does bend a bit harder than K&S brass rod from hobby shops but does not crack or wrinkle and appears to be tougher but still solders very nicely.

[Slotgeezer]

Hmmmm ... :think: .... is Tore saying that his car isn't the only "well-oiled" item at the racetrack? ... :naughty: ... I wonder....

[dc-65x]

Thanks for everyone's input. I'm off to the welding supply store today during my lunch break....if the freeway traffic is moving. That section of SF Bay Area freeway is ranked 2nd worst in the westbound direction and 3rd worst in the eastbound direction. With any luck they will be ranked 1 and 2 before I get the heck out of here in 3 years and 11 months

[Toremeister]

DC65x,

I get this stuff at a local welding shop. I use the bronze brazing rod also. This is the name and specs here. It comes in a nice plastic square tube. I get it in one pound quantiies.

Specs are --

Name = ProStar brand

Alloy = 15 Bare ??

Heat = Z5060ll- A290 ??

Listed as low fuming Bronze Rod

Brazing rod for- steel, copper, copper alloys, nickel & nickel alloys

One pound equals about 30, 3 foot rods.

It does bend a bit harder than K&S brass rod from hobby shops but does not crack or wrinkle and appears to be tougher but still solders very nicely.

Thanks for all the good info Larry and everybody will be stoked to see how straight the rods are

[Toremeister]

WOHOOOOOOOOOOO Everybody, Steube's baaack. Whure ya binh? Maybe that Honey Do list caught up to you!! Good to hear all is well again. :up: Now plug in the aahrn and tin da tongue on the Burger Flipper.

[dc-65x]

Freeways at lunch? This guy belongs on Fear Factor

Hi Mike,

I only had to lean on the horn twice and swerve onto the shoulder once. Not too bad a trip. .

Well, I bought a pound of the stuff but it's a little "wavy" when you spin it between your fingers....not the straightest rod I've worked with. Did I get a bum lot or is this the way it is?

It's a little harder to bend and cut than brass rod which is as it's supposed to be, I'm told.

[Toremeister]

The waves should disappear with a little Scotchbriting.

[dc-65x]

This stuff has a wavy appearance and it's not perfectly straight. If you roll it on a flat surface or spin it in your fingers you can see it moving around a little.

[Toremeister]

This stuff has a wavy appearance and it's not perfectly straight. If you roll it on a flat surface or spin it in your fingers you can see it moving around a little.

Simply cut to 6 inch pieces,and cherrie pick the sano ones for your own car,and use rest for customer cars or uoy could straighten tween thumbs and index fangers

[rdmac]

...If you roll it on a flat surface or spin it in your fingers you can see it moving around a little.

Maybe, if you cut it into 12" lengths and try rolling it between a couple of flat steel plates, while applying pressure.

[dc-65x]

Simply cut to 6 inch pieces,and cherrie pick the sano ones for your own car,and use rest for customer cars or uoy could straighten tween thumbs and index fangers

I have my first piece for a "Customer Car"....I tried to straighten a piece with my fingers :shock: . Mad straightening skills I don't have. I'll cherrie pick some good ones for the project. It may take the entire pound though

[Hworth08]

To straightnen maybe try a peice in a variable speed drill with a rag, paper towel, ect. try running your fingers back and forth along the rod. There's place in town that recycles steel into 2 inch bars using a similiar process. The metals are in 40 foot lengths and still "warm", not hot, when they use a similiar process. The bars often have a foot or so wave and after a couple minutes will spin very true.

[Larry LS]

The stuff I get is perfect looking and even better looking than the K&S stuff. It is a little darker in color but I see no swirls or bends even in a 3 foot length. Don't know what they sold you but you better get some good stuff.

I buy my brass rod in bulk and all my music wire bigger than .062 in bulk and in three foot lengths from K&S. I get .047, .055. and .062 music wire in 3 foot bulk, round cases from K&S dealers.

I also buy all my .032 brass rod and .062 tubing and ..093, .125, .156, and ..187 tubing in bulk 12 inch length boxes from a K&S dealer.

Saves running a around hunting for some locally at the stupid hobby shops locally that won't carry it any more.

So i am stocked up for any chassis I want to try.

[Toremeister]

Hey let it rain huh Larry,but pleeze put the ole 356 under cover.I was just curious what one would use the .032 brass rod for :? Could you give us a hint ?

[dc-65x]

Thanks for all the imput. It's plane to see that I got hosed on this deal. I don't mind the $15 down the toilet for but I wish I hadn't gotten my windshield broken by a rock on the freeway trip to the weld supply shop

[dc-65x]

:mrgreen: