Derby Talk

You might take a look at 3/32" (0.0938") K&S music wire which can be found at most hobby supply shops and web stores. K&S music wire is very hard and strait. Doesn't cost much if you buy a single 36" length. An even better source is to cut down a 3/32 6" aircraft extensio...

Warp,
Congratulations to Jesse for hanging in there for the win and a great looking car. You have every reason to be proud. Good luck at the council race.
Panzer

One very importent safety item was missing from what I could see with the one good eye I have left.

Here is a good starter kit at a very reasonable price

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/D ... umber=5645
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/d ... umber=1717
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/D ... mber=47257

Here isa great site to help you get started
http://www.mini-lathe.com/

Gissmo,
Sorry, no plans
Built it freestyle

Stuff is called "Butcher's Bowling Alley Wax"
Found it in the floor care section.
Here is a link http://www.bwccompany.com/bowlingalley.html

My advice if the bore looks suspect throw the wheel out and get another one. For bore polishing I take a 1/8" strip of 12000 Micro-Mesh, tightly rapped around a 6" length of 0.057" music wire (ends glued to the wire with super glue) http://members.aol.com/pwasinger/Bore1.jpg Insert in...

ExtremePWD wrote:Nice track! Is your stop material anything special?

See my previous post http://derbytalk.com/viewtopic.php?p=4590#4590

Smell of pine wrote:Where do you get the "bowling alley wax"?

Got both at Home Depot

Here is another good source for carbide drill bits
http://www.store.yahoo.com/drillcity/index.html

Here are pictures of a 3 lane home track we built using 1/4" finished birch plywood. Guide rails were made from milled 1 5/8" x 1/4" lath with plastic cap guide rails. Purchased everything down at Home Depot. Finished the running surfaces with several coats of bowling alley wax. Turne...

If your goal is to have a highly accurate, consistent and trouble free as possible track timing system, I don't think you can beat a micro switch and a well designed spring assisted starting gate controlled by a good mechanical latching system. My earlier post shows a good example http://derbytalk.c...

I have been playing around with different things with my car and had a run of 1.88. I have had this track for 5 years and literally done 100's if not 1000's of runs. Never had the timer mess up where it is faster. Had the same experience with our track a while back. Turned out to be a hanging micro...

At our pack race we have a duty Zamboni Man with a shop vac equipped with wide floor brush attachment do the honors on the track between groups

We have used SureThing Decal Maker, Standard Edition

http://www.decalgear.com/DG/Category.as ... CCESSORIES

Panzer