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“Where did you get the titanium rod?”
There are a couple sources for titanium HO slot car axles. The ones I get are from James (Jim) Walters and are available from a couple sources including directly from Jim or from JAG Hobbies (where I get mine).
JAG’s website is http://www.jaghobbies.com (JW’s axles can be found here… http://www.jaghobbies.com/ho_slot_cars/jws-axles.htm).The one I used was A05T. (1.200 is the axles length in inches)
I’ve coated tyres Larry’s way. It works well. There are a couple other ways to do it as well, all provide satisfactory results.
The OWH ScaleStuff pages provide a couple good introductory “How To” articles that get quite decent results and could be used, more or less without any changes, in Bit tire making…
How to make you own wheels….
http://www.oldweirdherald.com/scalestuff/onethreetwo/wheels/wheels.html
and how to make solid silicone tyres for those wheels….
http://www.oldweirdherald.com/scalestuff/onethreetwo/silicones/silicones.html
Edited by – canabits on 23 March 2004 04:42:32
betty.k,
I’ve never tried having the foam tyres removeable. When building foam HO tyres for use with silicone coating you usually attach them to the rim being used with contact cement. I modded a car a while back with a pair of delrin HO slot car rims and used a piece of 1.5mm titanium rod for the axle. Of course I needed to drill out the axle gear to fit on the new axle. I also reamed the rear axle holes to accept the new larger axle but otherwise it’s easy to do.
The above bearings are quite expensive. If you look around online you can find sources for others made for use with 1mm, 1.5mm and 2mm shafts/axles. I don’t have the link handy but I was able to find the three sizes above in both flanged and unflanged for $4US each. No minimum order and shipping is reasonable.
Regarding taping the tires. I’m not sure if that would work or not. In making HO slot car tires you want them to be as true as possible. If tape were used you would have to make sure it was applied evenly around the entire OD of the tire otherwise it wouldn’t be concentric. That said, I’m not even sure how easy it would be to remove tape once the silicone dried.
With a little effort you could also use stock Bit rims, make a mold and cast your own soft compound slip on tire to replace the stock ones. In doing so you could add any texture you wanted to.
The Wizzard LAW’s are actually silicone coated sponge and are used as a high performance HO slot car racing tire. They come in various size from around .420″ to .500″ in .002 increments. They come in a variety of colours (each colour represents a different foam density) and different rim diameters to give you more or less sidewall depending on which combination you choose.
You can easily coat the Tyco and AFX sponge tires you have with silicone and improve their performance dramatically.
All you need is a little bit of silicone (flowable windscreen silicone if it’s available works well if not, cut some clear general purpose silicone with mineral spirits) , a dremel (dill also works) and something to use as an axle to set the wheel/tire onto so you can chuck it into the above mentioned dremel.
Once you’ve got all that…
-Place the wheel/tire onto the axle and chuck it into the dremel/drill.
-Take some silicone and spread it onto the tire (be sure to cover the entire surface and sidewall)
– Take the dremel and holding it into a plastic bag, turn it on briefly. The bag catches any extra silicone as it leaves the tire.
-Set the whole thing aside to dry.
Repeat at least one more time (3 seems to work best) and let dry. Once it’s fully dried, add the wheel/tire to your car and your racing 🙂
HO slot car stuff is great for bits 🙂
You betcha. Get to show it off this weekend when the guys get together. I’m sure more than a couple will want to have a closer look.
Got the PM with the details. Off to the post office this weekend to send some stuff I picked up down to my nephew. Will drop a little package in for you as well.
You betcha. Get to show it off this weekend when the guys get together. I’m sure more than a couple will want to have a closer look.
Got the PM with the details. Off to the post office this weekend to send some stuff I picked up down to my nephew. Will drop a little package in for you as well.
Well, just started week 2 of the 3 week visit. So far I’m lovin’ it…though I’ve gotten a bit of a burn LOL
This week is pretty much shot for time as we have the wedding this weekend. However I have a few days next week. Wednesday and/or Thursday (March 3/4) are looking to be the best so far. I’m not sure how often I will be online but if anyone wants to PM their home # I can ring and maybe we can set something up. Leonli, you’ll be happy to know I had no trouble bringing the bit trucks through customs 🙂
We’ve got a big day planned with the girlfriends mum but I’ll try to check my message box tomorrow.
leonli17, I’ve added a couple shots of the transport trucks I picked up to my album. As I said, let me know if you’re still interested and I can pack them for the trip.
z-beam, I’ve also added a couple shots of the NKOK monster trucks. In packaging as well as one comparing them to the size of a Bit beetle.
leonli17,
Went to pick up a couple more today and they had few left. i did pick up 2 more. will try to post pics by tomorrow. If you’re still interested I’ll bring them with me.
On a slightly different topic I was to Wal-Mart this weekend as well and found NKOK Monster Trucks in two car sets reduced from $27 to $20. I thought “Why not?” and grabbed one. When I went to pay they scanned at $10 ($7.50US)! Fun trucks once ya get used to the tank like steering. They’ll even do cheater wheelies straight out of the box with the diecast metal body.
I went to the aussie yellow pages last night and printed off 1/2 dozen pages of hobby shop addresses. Found a few in places I can remember the girlfriend mentioning at one time or another [croydon, mt waverley, ringwood, phillip island, kilsyth, Boronia, etc.]. Looks like I’ll be donating generously to the Aussie economy.
Thanks for the replies. A micro amps fet modded pcb is at the top of my ‘must get while in Oz’ list. I’m there from Feb 23rd to March 6th. No idea what the girlfriend has planned but I’m sure I could squeeze some free time for bit related activities 🙂 End of Feb is a blowout though, we’ll be at her friends wedding.
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