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- A look at the Hornsby Slot Car centre in Sydney which holds the national championship slot car event.
See a slot car race around a 186 foot track in 3.2 seconds!
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This reminds me of my Tyco race track that I had when I was a kid. I could still smell the odor that was given off by those tiny motors.
Biggest difference between the two, the 1/24 cars have NO magnets holding it to the track
@@scottw2157 motors give a magnetic effect.....so they do somewhat.....
Where they hold national championships... looks at wiring... ‘thats abit how you doing isnt it’ ha!
Wahay! You can type what you heard!! You’d make an excellent 2 year old (4 year old in the USA).
@@mactheknife4786 You're fun at parties aren't you...
This really makes me miss racing wing cars with my dad. I had a ton of fun with him. My dad won many competitions. And drag racing too. My dad had a Willy’s drag car that did 88mph on the track. I forgot how long the drag track was but it was amazing it could do almost 90 in a very short distance. Thanks for the video!
I think you found your calling. We all want to see you nerd out and build a car and controller. Plenty of airplane nuts in this crowd to help with an aerodynamic body designed to make it fast and stick to the track. A g-sensor activated spoiler to assist hold down on corners could be made from cheap quad controller parts. Fine tune the spoiler in betaflight or some other quad software.
You're talking about adding substantial weight to the car. You'd need a circuit to regulate the voltage coming off of the track which I'm guessing isn't always a constant connection, so your need a capacitor to keep the microcontroller running if the car loses connection for just a split second.
@@skuzlebut82 It could be as simple as a balanced spoiler that increases it's angle of attack automatically as the air pressure on the car body increases. The aerodynamic shape of the body would not add any weight. It's just molded over a plug out of thin plastic. Even if you added electronics the corner speed increase might offset the hit taken in the weight department.
@H Higgins reversing the polarity certainly isn't the best way to brake, some "smart" digital controllers like the Yatronic ACD series do it, but usually it's just done by basically shorting out the motor, so no reverse power is applied
@H Higgins yeah but nowadays it's bad practice as there are quite a few brands where the motor actually will have a way shorter lifetime when people use PWM control (to ride) and/or reverse power brake, thats why difalco and kopriwa dont do that
Would add too much weight. The name of the game is a very light high rpm car, so you can keep it planted like an F1 car in corners.
Cool to see the hobby get some exposure on the interweb.
Thanks Dave!
ZOMG @ 3 seconds around that track!!! The record (less than 2 seconds) seems unbelievable!!!
Its not .
1000 bucks for that?? There is nothing to it. What separates the men from the boys is the price of their toys.
ye these wingcars literally have no issue whatsoever to stay in the track, as you can see the kid literally just held the trigger and the car stayed in the track, you could literally have done that with a standard resistor controller, however for other types of slotcars those controller upgrades certainly are more useful than just an "expensive buy", for example for scaleauto cars or plafit chassis based cars, and even Flexi type chassis cars (wingcars do have a form of a really minimal Flexi type chassis, but the lightweightness because of the minimalism and the winged bodies, meanwhile not only being light, the winged bodies actually do generate a HELL of a lot of downforce, which is why it stays in place), those are a lot harder to drive than these
And yet a few months ago a 1st edition charizard card. A piece of plastic and cardboard sold for $350,000 so nit sure what ur complaining about lol.
It's been probably close to a decade since the local slot track closed in my area but still have my cars and controllers and loved the hobby
Same! I’m reliving it by watching TH-cam videos haha there is a track almost 3 hours away from me that’s reopening again on June 5th! So stoked
As a kid I loved to go all the time. Now none in Houston I wish there was.
That car's velocity is about 17.7m/s. In a turn with 1m radius that car pulls about 31.3Gs. Wow.
So.. If it weighs 20 grams.. That will be 626 grams of force.
@@asteen75 & a shit tone of speed.
And what's the downforce on the straights?
@@asteen75 So it's at least 626.1 grams of downforce or that plastic sheet-thingy would go flying?
Its the Weight of the slotcar... The force that pulls it outwards in a turn with 1m radius.
It's nice to see these large tracks still in existence. We used to have them here in Victoria BC in the late sixties but they disappeared and my favorite track turned into a nightclub. I still have a few cars which were hi tech back in the day but they look like dinosaurs now compared to the ones you are showing us!.
how's it goin', eh? (Surrey, B.C.)
If you really paid 1000 for that thing you really got screwed lmao
sourdonkeyjuice ikr probably under 100 is good
Remember that people pay +500 for a fucking phone with bitten apple
@@ΑΡΗΣΚΟΡΝΑΡΑΚΗΣ phones have a relatively low profit margin.
@@sourdonkeyjuice Relatively...
If thats truly what you think, clearly youve never had a hobby
OMG, Does that take me back. I was racing in 1964, building my own slot cars. Never had a lot of money, but sure had a great time. I raced at a place called WHITTIER GRAND PRIX.
Suprised car is not carbon fiber and bldc powered like a modern rc race car, looks like state of the art 1950s
the weight penalty of the electronics would not justify the slight efficiency advantage of a BLDC motor, since there has to be electronics onboard for BLDC as you only get two electrical contacts on the track.
@@tmmtmm Even the motor is open frame to cut down on the weight
Cool track but I total BS on the $600 motor and the $1000 controller
Oli I've seen guys spend that on them and that's USD.
Until China find there is a market for them and mass produce them
@@KarlUKmidlands ahah true but i'm guessing that if they actually do sell for that kind of money as Jon Kulas says, then it's because they're one off builds and therefore you're paying for their time and knowledge and i can see that getting up to $500 especially if there is a competitive race series
@@OliverHirstsLife Some of the high end 1/24 wing cars are built with titanium chassis designed in AutoCad, parts cut on a plasma CNC, and assembled using high temp braze systems used in the aircraft industry.
It's difficult to make a chassis light enough while remaining rigid enough to perform well and durable enough to take a few wall shots from a deslot at the end of a straight.
Just an unassembled chassis kit like that with NO electrics, wheels, tires, axles, bushings/bearings, guide flag, etc can run $400 by itself.
If you buy a Lexan body designed and painted by a well known designer, they can run $200 minimum.
At the high end of any hobby, the prices can get pretty outrageous but ask any pro, they'll tell you it makes a real difference between winning a national and being the king of your local club.
Samarium-cobalt magnets, sometimes multi-segment magnets, balanced armatures, ball bearings instead of plain bearings, aluminium alloy endbells, gold plated brush hoods, and quite a lot of careful alignment putting the motor together. Many of those top end motors are made by Koford Engineering who also supply the aerospace/defence industry, so they don't make anything cheap.
In comp they lay lines of track goo before the corners, then just hold the trigger flat and use the goo to slow them for the corners. Whatever you do don't watch comp cars near a corner, or you will get sprayed with goo.
do a 2min tear down?
I used to race slot cars back in the mid-1960s USA. I was about to say that those cars didn't look as fast as the cars we used to race back then until I saw that last car. Wow! I don't remember adhesive being used on the tracks back then. That is new. There were a lot of cars flying off in the corners. You needed more skill to avoid that. It seems like all the tracks disappeared almost overnight.
Modern slot cars generate so much power that you can't put it all into the wheels without adhesive. Same reason why drag race tracks are pouring this strong adhesive over the starting strip and doing burnouts to put some extra sticky stuff on the surface.
The slower cars you were watching were hire cars, assembled and geared to be manageable for walk in kids on lower track power. Sadly for the serious fan, most weekends are booked tight on both tracks with kids parties, so as to make the business viable. Hobby racers get track access about three nights a week for organised racing, and of course any other time suitable when you can get to run race voltage when there are no rookies around. As far as I know, Hornsby and most Oz tracks race on spray goo, which is applied very thinly, usually after the track has been immaculately cleaned to remove rubber accumulation. "Glue" racing was popular at the high end years ago, whereby tacky glue was applied to strategic parts of the lane by the competitor, to their own liking as far as I know.
I've raced this track at the low end of competition, with scratch built retro cars with control motors that will lap in the high fives, and flexi chassis type cars, that will lap in very low fives at least. Those flexies will cost you about US$80 or less right now today, go get one and have some fun. There are more tracks around than you think, I'll bet.
This reminds me of when I was a little kid in the 70s. In the USA slot car tracks were big time
Good times, Sigh! Back in the 70's I was spoiled and had the Tyco Niteglo and multiple sets of AFX tracks. I also had the Sizzlers tracks. How many people remember the Sizzlers cars that you would charge up and race?
this reminds me of gourmet food. The less you get the more it costs.
But the better it is
Why do they only use 6 volts? I would say e.g. 24 volts would be more practical, because a lot less current is required
Maybe the risk of electrocution or perhaps arching increases at the higher voltages. However I'm willing to bet the voltage was simply grand fathered in.
7:08 super fast car
Thank me later
Thank you later.
Thanks le later !!
Well if I had the attention span of a fly, I might actually thank you for skipping ahead.
Thanks lee
11 months later, new edit :D
I remember doing slots back in the day. It was great fun but I mostly ran drag slots. Our local place had a 100' drag track. The fastest cars could do 100' in .3 sec, that's really moving. Ahh what memories..
Fast is much easier when you don't have to go around bends!
That's around 250 mph or 400 kph.
I call absolute B.S. on the $600 motor and $1,000 controller.
It looks like your average $1 motor but while they are mass produced by robots this motor was likely precision crafted by a single human to meet very specific requirements, most of the $600 would be to pay the human that put in those hours of work. As for the controller I'm not sure what would make it cost that much. Maybe something similar, but at that cost why not spend an extra $100 to make it at least somewhat visually appealing?
Agree. My open motor is faster and was less than $150.00. Controller was also $300.00 and can run the hottest G7 wing cars. Apparently he way overpaid for everything. Video of my car as proof.
th-cam.com/video/4hYqt2PhoTg/w-d-xo.html
It Really Costs Much, But ONLY FOr The Slot Cars, If You Buy The SAME Motor For Different Purpose It Will Cost You 5 Bucks. And The Controler is Just a Few Mosfets With Solder And A Copper Wire, I Was In The Slot Cars And I Made It All MySelf, Not The Shasy And The Motor, But All Made Myself For Nothing, This Is STUPID, This IS To Separate The Kid Parents From They Money..
@@krisraps - We ALL Know That You Are Absolutely Full Of Bullshit, Simply Because You Cannot Type A Sentence Properly.
@@WaytooFastSpeed Geez that is quick!
over $1,000!!!!!
ounce for ounce that car is worth more than gold.
just think about that.
And gold is only good for insulation or electrical contacts. Slot cars are way more fun than gold. Just think about that
@@mikdonalds3956 good point, but gold is a horrible insulator. in fact its thermal conductivity is relatively high.
it is only good at reflecting radiant heat.
just think about that.
Did run slotcars in the 80´s. good to c there is a few tracks left.
1000$ for that? What BS
Isaw Robert Pitman do the world record at Stafford Raceway in Brisbane.He ran 1point 69 seconds foe 155 feet of track.That was just pure power you know nothing about fool.
Omg omg omg I'm just down the road I used to go there all the time as a kid, a meet up there would be mad
Brings back memories from the late '60s' - one of the funniest things is watching the drivers during competition races - their eyes are nearly popping out of their skulls trying to watch the car zoom around. Great vid EEV
It would be insane to see that car at a 1000 fps...
Where are the Slo Mo guys when you need them? 😕
Wouldn't it just look like a car doing 1/20th of the speed?
@@sdgelectronics That is correct. It would just look like a slow car to begin with, unless there is some weeble wobble of that plastic, you could see that...
@@leocurious9919 at those speed, the car sure wobbles.
Doesn't Dave have a Chronos?
Most of the cars are actually sliding at those speeds round the corners. In SA we race group 12 and you can see where the goop is disturbed after the car has gone past. SAMCA has been running since the 60's and still hold national events at a few venues throughout the year.
why do the plug ins in you country look sad 3:58
They are surprised... that you want to shove something into them!
They didn't want people getting killed by being able to plug in a plug 2 ways, because that can connect active to neutral. 110V is bad, but 240V will kill.
@@leocurious9919 - and afterwards they turn into round-earth sockets that have the "O Face".
Looks like Scream face mask
Thats what i love about this channel, you never know where you'll end up. Very cool.
If the average speed of the 1.85 second car is 68.5mph or 110kph AND it's making 180 degree hairpin turn of small radius the g's must be insane. Assuming a radius of about 4 feet or 1.22m the g'force would be as much as 78.5 g's. But, since it is almost certainly going slower in the turns, let's say half the average, then we're looking at about 19.6 g's. (a = (30.64mps/2)^2 / 1.22m) = 192.4m/sec^2) or 19.6 g's. If the corner speed is more than half the average then the g'force would be higher.
Crazy numbers!
My tamiya is faster than these things, cheaper too. Just sayin’
Sir.Lithium that’s not too surprising, although it looks pretty quick here the record if 1.85sec on a 186 foot track is only going 68.5 miles per hour on average, you go more then that on the highway in a crappy car.
How is that a $1000 car? What makes it so expensive? You can get a pretty badass RC car for $1000 that has a lot more to it. I am not trying to be snarky or anything. Just trying to figure out where the cost comes from.
Its all custom. Custom carbon fiber frame, custom wound motor, etc. All of it has to be either made by hand or manufactured at a suitable shop. It all adds up fast for one-off runs of something.
I'm with ya if you make it yourself. CF isn't that expensive especially with how little this one has.
The only thing I can think of is that it's a one-off deal that he paid someone to make.
@@dotJata Probably could have been done much more cheaply if they rolled their own, sort of speak. Like you said they probably had some specialty shops make the parts for it.
Where are the Chinese slave children? Seems like $50 should get you what you want.
That’s roughly 64 mph.
Trophies!
One race I paid to run in 3 different classes. I wound up hitting in 3rd place advanced and 1st place novice. They would only give me 1. Which one would you pick. I choose advanced class
Still have my trophy and cars from 1980's and 1990's.
Wish I could find an open frame near me. Northern Virginia
You should go visit some 1/12 scale rc pan car races. It's incredible. They go as fast but are also steered so much more impressive driving.
oh yea, Indoor carpet track...crazy fast
Yeah yeah, and the FPV drone racers will tell you that your 1/12 scale rc's are lame. To each his own. Peace.......
Unnecessary long vídeo. TH-cam algorothm is not that stupid
Good to see a track still going in Sydney, there were quite a few around in the 70' and 80's here.
❤️❤️ I love this...reminds me of when I was a kid...had a track near me in Orange County California...haven’t seen this in years..but I remember back than..the controller connections were bare metal/copper...not sure...but my epic memories were the people with cheap controllers...with metal triggers...frying them in the connection posts...is that still a thing? I assume a universal connection has been established since than..as I am talking he mid 90’s since I have done slot cars
I remember going there as a kid in the late 1960s, place and track still looks exactly the same, well except for the fancing timing equipment :-)
uh.... that exposed conductor out of the capacitors... great workmanship!
I was thinking that as well. Definitely a bit "How you doing". Given young kids walking around there. A jolt off those caps would put you on the floor.
I do like a red cable being used as positive and negative.
@@dj_paultuk7052 assume its only 12V, though the whole lot going up in flames is definitely a possibility
@@dj_paultuk7052 You can't get a "jolt" off low voltage caps.
@@dj_paultuk7052 - I cannot imagine how careful you are with those dangerous 9V batteries, given young kids walking around your house.
Oh wait, that would be a silly thing to say.
You're using a Huawei phone?
Grew up racing slot cars and introduced my kids to them a few years back.
Such a fun sport, great for all ages.
Very nice
Wow, two subjects dear to my heart in one video... EEVblog & slot cars! Who would've thought?
The track and car was real big in the 70s .
Hampton beach new Hampshire was the stop to go . For 1.00 you could race for 30 minutes. But now its gone, they built condos for greed not fun. SO SAD MY KIDS WILL NEVER NOW ABOULT THE TRACK CARS
I remember the place....
That thing is definitely not 1000 bucks for its material. The price is for its performance.
Sidewinder motor setup square brass tube frame O ring front wheels, built them back in the 60s, never got $1,000 bucks for one more like $100 tops, with a custom built rewound balanced motor.
@@steamboatmodel Good point, but what would your 1960s $100 equate to in today's dollars. When I started work in 1969, the welders in our workshops were earning $1.52 an hour, basic rate. $121.60 per fortnight, or just over the price of a 60's wing car. At $1k, today's car would hose the 1960 model due to refinement and better developed technology. Expensive, but much better value............
Holly Crap that was fast even at about 1/2 the speed of the record time.
We are driving in Finland those same cars. G7 is the fastest class and usually track is 47 meters long and in time qualifying fastest times can be even 1.5-1.6 seconds per round. In race mode those are likely 1.8-1.9 seconds per round. Highend motors can run almost 200.000 rpm or more. If you like to see how those cars are running, check this video: th-cam.com/video/GtwkRd6zHwg/w-d-xo.html
$1000??? Not so sure about that.
It looks like it was made out of a 2L pop bottle. After the currency exchange rate, that's still $700... Did someone get scammed? lol
It would be hand made by nude grey bearded virgins
@@serpico1616 that motor looked dodgy as hell too, 600 bucks for it? Someone is using oxigen free audiophool grade copper there..
In 1979 a average open motor was about $400, then you tricked it up with $180 magnets, etc. That one didn't even have the fine tooth comp gears.
I can easily see the cost going that high after including the R&D costs for a one off.
9:26 Thousand buck controller with a failing 2$ cooling fan..
We had a place in Tulsa, OK in the late 90's for slot cars and I loved it. I went pretty much every couple of days as a kid. They had 2 tracks and a drag strip and it was awesome. The main track looks a lot like the big one you show at first except we ran it in reverse with the large bank turn being turn 1. I still have my cars and would love to race them again but there is nowhere to race here.
Isn't this a re-upload. Maybe i saw it on the second channel first.
Most of the video is new.
This has about 8-9 minutes of extra footage
In the States those hyper fast cars are called Wing Cars.
I've had the pleasure of running one a long time ago, I'm sure they're even faster today.
Takes full concentration to get into the rythm.
Would have thought smaller distributed caps would be better
1000 buck for the car, talk about a hell of an extreme overprice..
Ikr
Well, you can stick with the $80 beginners car...
i remember back in the day i had a one of them wing cars..had blueprinted motor (armature had been balanced)..and the chassis was made outta wire...just like this wingcar....and it cost less than $100...i thnk joe is pullin ya leg with the 1000$ car and 1000$ controller..(hell the controller is just a wiper contacting a copper coil)
thing would stick so good on corners..so fast... we also had a drag stip..everything from top fuelers to trike bikes
and we used the goo on the tyres back then...would stop the wheels from spinning, not keep it stuck to the track....the aero dynamics (especially on the wing cars) have alot to do with keeping them on the track..
most controllers in the pro scene are quite advanced electronic controllers with either BJT transistors and control for everything, or with a microcontroller and mosfets
I didn't know slot cars were still a thing. There used to be a huge track down the road from where I lived as kid back in the early 1960's in the foyer of a disused cinema. It was too expensive for me to race but I loved going there to watch the cars. That was about 55 years ago but now seems like yesterday.
:0 I've been here before!!! I remember this place from a few years back!!!
is the national championship only held once every four years, or is it held annually and rotates through to this location every fourth year?
Not sure, sorry
engineers are what happens when children age but don't grow up (a category I firmly put myself into - got a big LEGO model half built as we speak)
They just stay idealistic. Some never lose it. If I did envy I would envy them.
Don't know how to mix cement?
@@vasili1207 I prefer Technic LEGO
This video makes me thinking that most of the slot car hobby is about look. Look at theese cars, they have no front wheel, minimal chassis, no coachwork, but they go fast twice than some hundred dollars cars that actual slottists collect.
I don't know, if I've to spend many money to have something looking good, I prefer static modelling. I remind that for 60€ you buy 3 Mini 4WDs, I don't find it a price worth for a pair of copper belts, a motor and an ABS plate
Scaleletrix on steroids.
9:42 Cant understand that motor can handle the power, I mean there had to go Amps through that and it doesn't look big what so ever.
U forgot how light they are.
@@merxellus1456 That have noting to do with it per se, at these speeds there is some significant air resistance and as I said these motors have to draw several amps at these speeds but the motors really don't seem to be able to handle that based on the size and build.
@@dtiydr u dont seems to have any experience in building stuffs.. Have u Seen the motor of an RC helicopter??? Its super tiny yet can lift the Freakin Entire thing off the Ground.
Now If thats running It would be much2 easier.
@@dtiydr dont worry bout the amps Endurance and RPM. Thats what Brushless Motor do best
@@merxellus1456 True but still, but the only thing I can think of make it survive is since it have a dam high rpm which is enough to cool it and not melt it.
$1000 a car, $600 for motor! Lol enthusiasts getting ripped off hardcore wow!
That's a lie.
@@stuartkeithguitars4251 a fool and his money are easily parted.
man...is there a chance that can lift off the track and kill a spectator? seems like a bullet flying around
The cars are too light to do any real damage. I'd be surprised if that car reached anywhere near 100 grams. which is only 8% of the impulse of a bullet, and less than 3% of the muzzle energy of a handgun.
@@deelkar I agree won't be anywhere near 100g, probably more like 30g. I do think however that 30g travelling at 100km/hr would do some serious damage. Try getting tapped on the forehead with a teaspoon, then imagine it doing 100km/hr and do the same
@@abeleski have you ever played "spoons" when you were younger? Two people put a spoon into their mouth then take turns hitting each other on the head.
@@willeveryday Sure have, but I think you already knew that from my comment. :)
The "wings" on the faster green car flatten out at speed, and generate a down force that was described to me by a former professional racer as approximating the weight of a brick. However, if for some reason the car does leave the track at speed, it quickly loses its directionality, and the ungainly wings suddenly become very un-aerodynamic. They don't exactly become fluttering leaves, but you get the idea hopefully.
What's up with all those big-assed batteries? Are they planning on running off-the-grid? :)
Above 60amps start current per car x 8 lanes.
I just want to know how much power is that motor putting to the wheels because on top of the insane speed theres a reduction inbetween! Maybe with a 1:1 ratio it could go even faster!
You mean the kv of the motor? You can calculate that roughly the wheels are 20mm and it goes 96kmh per hour
So about 8000rpm at the wheels so the motor will do around 60-80k rpm which isn't that high for a motor that size
Power maybe 20w
You cannot physically make it 1:1, due to ring and pinion. Needs the reduction anyway.... not enough torque there to pull a lower ratio (if it could, then it would).
There is a place like that close to where I live in nj. It is called the Speed Zone. I took my Carrera cars there one time for something(I can't remember off hand) but when I showed the guy there my car he said, "We don't run those cars here." "Ours are different." Then he put this car on the track and ran it. OMG! It took about 5 seconds for it to go around the track which is about the same size as the one in your video. The track takes up the whole place with a space for repairs and sales. If I had to guess scale speed, they would probably come close to the land speed record.
We used to race HO slot cars went that fast on a track the same size at hot slots in garden city michigan in th 90s. $1,000 is ludicris! We had maybe $200 into them tops. All off shelf items these kind of slot cars The frame is hand made, the body is hand made, and the motor and controller was the only things that had to be sourced. Still not $1,000 if you build em yourself
Its so sad and terible that they cost soo stupid much because there is nothing to it, its old tehnology and it can be cheap as dirt, but they need to bring iout teh stupid MAX Out from kid parents so jeagh, that part sucks a lot of this sport.
@EEVblog -
Unlivable this car cots 1000 bucks , it looks like a Chinese improvisation from "recycling" , but it speeds very fast especially considering the small wheels & motors ...
Oh, @ 3:42 Australia uses recessed Sockets now ? (extension cord) Like Germany (type F) & France (type E) de.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A4nder%C3%BCbersicht_Steckertypen,_Netzspannungen_und_-frequenzen#Netzsteckertypen
I spent a lot of my younger years here, 25+ years ago. Kept me out of mischief, also maccas next door was a treat. Sad to see it's gone.
1000 is cheap for that considering the biggest 2 lane ho scale afx track is almost 360dollars for 60.5feet of track it's a huge track. Alot of ppl spend 1000 easily onba nice 4lane ho track layout with scenery. Ok a grand for the slot car and 1000 for controler is rip off
1000bux... for plastic rubber.motor...they are Amazingly fast tho...
We have a very similar track here in Modesto Ca. They call it a hill climb. I stopped racing about ten years ago but I still have my cars and conrollers. I have a winged car with a group 27 motor. Back then it was one step under an open. I'm going to go back and see if I still like it.
"Insanely Fast" - no kidding, it took less then 5 seconds watching that snooze fest before I was bored into a coma. VR, Computer Games and most of all, RC cars, boats, planes - why would anyone waste their time on this nonsense?
that is awesome, I can remember my dad telling me about the drag stips they had back in the.. 60's? :D thanks for sharing
Looks like Saran Wrap with wheels. Guess it goes fast, but then the race is over. Why bother....
@@arthursmith1732 lol, lol ..lol
Wow! A thousand dollar slot car... Just as well that’s Aussie dollars, for three shitty components and a bit of steel. In other words, about £5.68p all in.
Its 68.2~ mph
I am guessing that England's variant was Scalextric, I had TCR back in the day with not only cars that lane swapped but US rigs too, upto 3 vehicles with a what was known as a jam car ( optional ).
Would have been cool to maybe scale this idea for super multi play, Its good to see these things standing the test of time though.
Scalextric was/is the home version, but we also had slot cars in the UK. There was a track near me back in the seventies similar to the one in Daves video, but not as big (or fast), I doubt if it is still there though.
That is seriously cool! Guys go and check out that Koford link! It's like high end Watch making for slot cars, no wonder those are so expensive.
That electrical job on the track was horrible. What a bammer. Don't let kids play around an exposed contact with a 2 farad cap... it's not safe or nice. At least they should wear eye protection or something.
Do you notice when a tyco etc power pack is used on a 2 lane, that the power is used/shared on both controllers? zapping the power back and forth. I made a few tracks where I broke the connection and gave each lane its own power pack using 2 power connection tracks, I per lane, am I making since? :P
Very cool! However. That car doesn't look like it has $1000 of tech in it. It looks like it was put together with scrap found around the house.
1k for a donk ??? Are you shitting me ? I can buy a lathe for that and make steam engines for half that !
You should take your young bloke out to the model park at luddenam ( 3rd Sunday of each month iirc) i reckon he will love it but unlike the slotcar track you don’t get to drive the cars or trains .
Now for some real speed, check out tether cars. Here's an electric one doing 212mph: th-cam.com/video/-abjRAOn504/w-d-xo.html
should be running "wing-cars" on a track like that. Nothing like my "road-course"
What is the name of the type of slot car that is being showcased on this episode?? The slot car they start talking about at 9:35 on the video. I can’t find information about them because I don’t know what class they are considered.
How do they control the power to the car? Is it PWM? It looked like I was seeing a bunch of high current wires going to the lanes but how do they control the speed of the car? How much current does each car use? Are then big conductors just to make sure everyone is getting close to the same voltage?
Light weight + full aerodynamic = insanity
That car is either a called group27 or a box 15 it looks like a box15 I use race them here in bunbury wa many years ago sadly I lost it due to a break in and fire
Slot cars were a big thing in the late 60's maybe into 70's here in USA but then suddenly died out . There were tracks like that set up where people could go race their cars . It all went bust pretty quickly for some reason.
wikipedia says amateurs were getting stomped so it wasn't fun anymore, and then RC cars became a thing so then they had something they could play with at home. seems logical.
i mean look at that supercar in the video. if you were racing against cars like that why would you bother to keep buying cars and bringing them in to race?
@@ssl3546 yep, and it's the same thing in the RC world right now. No one wants to play with competitive racers because they suck all the fun out of it. It's just a toy, even if RC is my life, it's just a toy. It's made for fun. I dont get these guys who get so damn upset.
@@ssl3546 That makes sense - I have a friend who family was in the industry - I will ask him for his thoughts.
My friend said it was a fad in the 60's and fads come and they go. When they go a lot of shops, dealers, manufacturers get stuck with a lot of inventory which is suddenly not worth anything. That is what happened in the toy and hobby industry . It is nice that slot car aficionados and collectors still keep it remembered. I was at a rummage sale this past weekend and a guy had whole box of slot car snap together track with the power supply and hand trigger controllers - but no cars $5 for it - I passed on it though .
I grew up (and still live) near this place, but I've never actually been inside. Pretty amazing the speed they can get to.
Like electrons in an atom.
Wonder how many Gs its pulling.
Crazy fast.
nice Chinese phone! Huawei phones are really nice!
Here's the European Championship slot car race from years ago.th-cam.com/video/GtwkRd6zHwg/w-d-xo.html
Somebody worked at Telecom :) Blue + Red