Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #03841
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com, beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Dave Hrynkiw dave@solarbotics.com
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 21:30:07 -0600
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: SE-lot car races
At 08:33 PM 5/27/1999 , Richard Piotter wrote:
>Speaking of slot cars, has anyone even made a solar engine slot car
>race. Actualy build SEs into the slot cars, and place them on a track.
>
>"Place your bets now!" Hehe! (:
>
>I want to see THAT!!!
Sure, about 3 years ago at one of the BEAM build-fests we had here in
Calgary. Does anybody have a scan of that Equinox article that had an
fish-eye, ground-up pic of MarkT & ScottyDogma playing with the slot-car track?
It was a blast. This was shortly after the initial variants of the Miller
1381 were shared with the rest of us. We invaded a local toy shop and
bought out his whole supply of slot-cars, about 16 in all. I think 9 of
them got turned into various types of SE-powered slot-car solarollers,
which we put on a big outdoor slot-car track. The speedier (longer-running)
cars took one lane, and the slower (short-burst) cars took another. It was
great fun to watch them whizzing around!
This event was one of the first inspirations for the SolarSpeeder kit. As a
matter of fact, my slot-car racer uses exactly the same components as in
the SS kit. I'll have to tear it down and take some close-ups for the
website this summer when I have my summer-job help here...
-Dave
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2 vowels. Pronounciation? _SMITH_".
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