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Post by dave632 on May 2, 2021 16:52:17 GMT -7
Nice work Jeff.
I have been buying my traction magnets from the Chinese suppliers but if you are in a hurry it wont work since
they take 3-5 weeks to get here. 50-100 small magnets for little money in sizes 5 x 1-2mm. I just ordered some 5x1
supposedly from a USA supplier, should be here in a week or so.
I will send you some if you still need them and or I can glue some to your chassis when they get here.
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Post by AJR on May 2, 2021 18:07:32 GMT -7
Nice work Jeff. I have been buying my traction magnets from the Chinese suppliers but if you are in a hurry it wont work since they take 3-5 weeks to get here. 50-100 small magnets for little money in sizes 5 x 1-2mm. I just ordered some 5x1 supposedly from a USA supplier, should be here in a week or so. I will send you some if you still need them and or I can glue some to your chassis when they get here. No hurry on them. I was asking for future stuff. I have some to work with right now. Thank you for the offer. Are the Chinese magnets close in strength to the stock AW ones? Where can I find those? |
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Post by AJR on May 2, 2021 18:09:23 GMT -7
Looks good Jeff, glad the brush setup is working. Certainly makes sense that it would. Gonna have to give it a go myself. I buy all my magnets from K&J Magnetics ( link) , they ship fast and have always been easy to deal with, for me anyways. Awesome thanks Gale. I will check them out. |
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Post by AJR on May 2, 2021 18:10:46 GMT -7
I've been using these from home depot. There in the nails and screws section. Some cars I have grinder the side straight to get up next to the tire. They are just a bit bigger than an autoworld magnet pocket.  Never even thought of looking at HD. I will be there tomorrow. Thanks Sam. |
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Post by dave632 on May 2, 2021 20:23:06 GMT -7
Here is the E bay item number Jeff.
402652532882
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Post by AJR on May 3, 2021 4:46:20 GMT -7
Here is the E bay item number Jeff. 402652532882 Thank you for looking that up Dave! |
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Post by AJR on May 15, 2021 20:33:50 GMT -7
Saturday night test and tune at Bear Creek Dragway in preparation for the Smoky Mountain Spring Nationals. A few shots from the rail......  Inline Stock Pantera and Inline Super Stock Gran Torino.  Inline 2.5 Goosebumps Thunderbird and 3g Unlimited Plymouth GTX.  I got some new Pro Track shoes for the PSO Dream Crusher Mustang  .  |
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Post by swiftkart on May 15, 2021 21:33:28 GMT -7
Real nice
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Post by AJR on Jul 20, 2021 19:12:14 GMT -7
Found these on Ebay and thought it was a decent deal. I think most places are selling mean greens for $6 dollars or more armature only. These came with the AFX top plate, pinion and cluster gears. Good quality on these and all measured 6.1 to 6.2 with matching poles. $20 + $5 ship puts them at just over $6 each. I listed the link and Item number below the picture for anyone interested.  Item #304052438058 www.ebay.com/itm/304052438058 |
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Post by dave632 on Jul 21, 2021 17:29:24 GMT -7
That's a good deal as the pinion alone will cost another dollar over the cost of the arm.
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Post by AJR on Jul 22, 2021 11:09:10 GMT -7
That's a good deal as the pinion alone will cost another dollar over the cost of the arm. That's my thinking as well. I know there were some people asking about mean greens recently and I thought I would post. They really are good quality! |
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Post by dave632 on Jul 22, 2021 15:24:55 GMT -7
Some mean green arms are amazing. I have had many that were quicker than 4 ohm arms and even below 4 ohm.
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Post by AJR on Aug 8, 2021 15:30:20 GMT -7
I thought this might be interesting and maybe amusing. I was going through my hobby room closet the other day and I stumbled on this buried in the back. It's my "Hillbilly Timing System" that I built back in 2013. Eagle Racing gave me the components that he started on before he got a Trackmate Basic. I added the magnetic switches and the microswitch for the track. The start line magnetic switch worked fine, but I could not get the finish line to register the car. So I made a switch out of a microswitch and a piece of credit card. The car would actually make contact with it to stop the clock. The digital stop watches have a wire soldered to the start/stop function. It worked really well. I had it on 6' of track and my first 10a/30v power supply. Made it to the Finals in the first race I entered after tuning with it. Ahhhhh those were the days. It was fun back then and still is today......
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Post by dave632 on Aug 8, 2021 17:05:28 GMT -7
It is fun to engineer your own items. I made my own dyno which I still have and it works. Thing is the track shows me more than the dyno does.
My first timing system was a slot dragon which worked well.
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Post by AJR on Aug 9, 2021 5:50:59 GMT -7
It is fun to engineer your own items. I made my own dyno which I still have and it works. Thing is the track shows me more than the dyno does. My first timing system was a slot dragon which worked well. I have made most of my own stuff due to budget.....or lack of. But I enjoy it so that helps a lot. I like the dyno you built. I remember when you and Sam compared the ones ya'll built and how similar they were. My first system was also a Slot Dragon. I had some trouble with it but I think they have worked those bugs out now. I was given a Trackmate Basic system that I used till I got my current Trackmate DP3000HO. Both have worked flawlessly! |
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