Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #03946
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: JVernonM@aol.com
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 15:00:34 EDT
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: SE-lot car races
In a message dated 5/29/99 2:16:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
dave@solarbotics.com writes:
> >Quick question: are y'all actually using slot cars (the kind with the
> >keeper pin on the botton of the car and a grove in the center of the
> >track) or are y'all just using slot car as a more generic term. I wonder
> >because I have not seen a true slot car in ages and was not even sure they
> >were still in production.
>
> Oh yes! The ones with the little pin and everything. Just gut the motor
for
> a pager; add the SE; and zoooom!
> -Dave
The best, and easiest to convert is the Tyco pro series, or master series,
something like that. You can buy them individually (20.00) and they are
almost made to be hacked. The pinion gear fits Dave's pager motor shafts
exactly. Just gut the thing of It's motor, pickups, and magnets. Super glue a
fuse clip to the inner motor well, slip on the pinion gear, snap the motor in
place, solar cell and solar engine of choice, you are ready to roll. Anybody
got an optimum cap size?
Jim
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