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Yes I got my inspiration from top gear too. Why not have a little fun with your track and name the corners right? Well I'm loving this final layout and I haven't changed it yet and have no intention to. It's been a blast. Hope your layout is as fun as mine. Thanks for watching!

Thank you that's an excellent idea. I need to pick it all up to vacuum anyway😂. Might just try that. Thanks for watching 🤙🏼

Those are some great tips! Thanks for chiming in. And thanks for watching too 🤙🏼

Sure thing. If I can figure out how 😂 I'll do my best and DM you?

Got the file but no way to send it in a reply. Not sure if you're on IG. I'll need an email or a DM on IG page. Lemme know how you want to receive it.

I understand completely. It can get very expensive adding Carrara chips to all your cars. But since I like formula 1 cars and there aren't many with chips, I will bear the expense 😆 Believe me, I don't buy many! Greetings from America and just have fun with it. 🤙🏼

Thanks, you too!

@johnniehobby Thanks for actually responding to my video, it provides some really valuable information. I feel a little foolish now not having reviewed your assembly instructions a year after I first view the video 😆 Anyway, I have implemented some of your helpful tips and immediately turned the drive pulley around. I had to do a little trimming of the swing arm as the thickness of the o-ring I was using actually came in contact with the swing arm because the o-ring didn't fit flush with the pulley. Maybe 3/16 is just a little too thick for the drive pulley o-ring? I'm still experimenting with my NSR formula 1 cars that have 2 mm axles and the bearings are set in the chassis. I'm not sure they'll fit the swing arm even if I can get them out of the chassis which I expect I should be able to do. And hopefully the axle pulley will tighten down on the smaller axle. Thanks for clearing things up, I'm sure those who read this will get a better understanding of whether or not this tire truer will actually work for them. It certainly works for me, but there are a few small hurdles that need to be jumped. The Carrera formula 1 car rear axle is 32 mm with a center to center bushing width of 28 mm so the overall width of the swing arm only needs to be a few millimeters (3or4?) narrower to accommodate that axle. Thanks for your input! Ted @BP Slotracing

Thanks I'll have to check that out. I thought they were hard grips🤔. If I change it up I'll let everyone know. Thanks for watching 🤙🏼

Yeah, you said that they sponsored Aston Martin in the formula 1. Which company is it?

Well, the nice thing about the modern Carrera digital track is that the rails are stainless steel so you never have to use steel wool to clean them! Hope your daughter didn't suffer any burns from that near incendiary catastrophe 😆. With these new digital sets, the rails are always hot as opposed to analog where the rails are proportionally hot depending on the controller position. These modern sets are definitely not your grandpa's (me) road race sets of old 😆 Break some of those old sets out. It'll make you feel like a kid again just like the trains 🤙🏼

Yes some rubber feet have been ordered and are on the way! I'll also be doing some measuring and tweaking to make sure that the pads are the same thickness and the wheel height is identical so I'm not truing one tire smaller than the other 😆. Thanks for your comment 🤙🏼

No trouble altering my grip. It just takes a little bit of practice and muscle memory. I did notice that if I stabilize the top of the controller with my left hand that I could easily change my grip and access the lane change button. Thanks for watching and you're for your suggestion 🤙🏼

Thanks! Merry Christmas to you and yours.

Thank you for watching. I really appreciate your feedback. I'm not familiar with the chip that you described, but I will take a look. I'm always open to new ideas and products. In the meantime, good luck getting your car going on your career track. It will be worth it, have fun!

@@blackpearlvoyager4174 I have no experience with the MPL QX2021 chip either, but they claim that their chip is "the slimmest!- only 3mm (0.11") tall/thick- ideal for F1, low bodies and tight spaces". By the way, I am also a huge Alonso fun (I am Spaniard). I have quite a few of Alonso's cars in my slot car collection, some of them non-Carrera Digital and waiting to be chipped, so my interest in digital chipping of Carrera cars is quite high. Looking forward to more of your videos!

Well, I'm glad you found some useful information in my video, I appreciate the feedback. I have found that slot cars have been a reasonably cheap hobby compared to some of the other things I do, imagine it's the same for you. Have fun!

It's 14'10" by 6'7". Pretty big for the space. Thanks for watching!

Yes, all Carrera "132" sets, whether it's digital or analog, is scaled for 124 and I have several 124 cars that I like to run, specifically the GT40s. But by and large I run 132. And yes, the Spirit of Speed includes three very good 132 cars, including one monster called the pink pig that is extremely quick and sticks to the track light glue! Three cars and three controllers and that makes this a very good value for the money and I would recommend it as a good starter track. For 60 or 70 bucks more you can purchase another controller and your favorite car. Later you can add a pit lane and the Bluetooth adapter and just kind of ease back into it. It is definitely not the slot car track of your youth, very much better now! You will enjoy it very much.

@@blackpearlvoyager4174 Ted, Thank You for all of the information and the Reply back. I'm looking online now for this Starter Set "Carrera 30016 Spirit Of Speed, Digital 132 Set w/Lights", sounds like this is the correct set to begin with. Do you have any specific place you buy from online ? I have to buy online as I live in Northern Wisconsin and we basically have no places to buy this up here! Thanks Again, Dean

WAS a fan? Did he pass away recently?😂 I just picked up a Carrera No8 Ferrari from 2011 from when he was driving for them, nice car. I'm still a fan until he retires again 😁 Thanks for watching!

@@blackpearlvoyager4174 I should have stated I'm a diehard Ferrari team fan. But he "IS" and continues to be a great F1 driver. 😀

It's 14ft 10in X 6ft 7in which gave me a nice long 12ft straight! Glad you like it, thanks for watching 🤙🏼

@@blackpearlvoyager4174 Thanks! I'm going to be gong with a 5X12 set-up for now. That's all the room I can muster up for the moment. But I think I can do something cool with that. Thanks for the great response!

@@jimmyz2098 anytime 🤙🏼

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I think you've got the right idea. I have watched others in the slot car hobby spend hundreds or nearly $1,000 on a conversion box to connect to their Carrera track. And I always wondered why you couldn't just buy an analog power track to run your analog cars 🤔 The problem is, once you've gotten a digital track and you're running digital cars, you really don't want to go back to analog. I don't plan on buying too many more analog cars because as you noted it's pretty expensive and can be time consuming to convert them. Most Carrera analog cars are chip ready though and they're just plug and play so you might be able to get by with a few digital chips and just switch them from car to car as you need them. Still not ideal. Thanks for watching!

@@blackpearlvoyager4174 yeah, my biggest problem is that I don’t collect a certain type of car, make or model, I collect my heroes of today and yesteryear, mostly the latter. That’s why I have cars from different manufacturers. I’m also 60+ so the list of my heroes go back decades, it will be interesting to see what I can find from who

I definitely started in the mid 60s with an old Eldon set and two lotus open wheel formula 1 cars. Kept me occupied for hours. Cheers!

You are correct, that's the beauty of the Carrera digital 124 scale track. I like the larger cars and plan to get a few more. The track will accommodate them and so why not? 😁 Not to mention the GT40s are beautiful cars! Thanks for watching 🤙🏼

Do you mean crossover as in lane change or overpasses? 😆😆 I'm still trying to decide where to put the double lane change. Even now. It actually affects the top speed along the front straight away when the cars lose power across the bare spots. Thanks for the suggestion, but I think I will wait to add more lane changers when I build a much larger track. Thanks for your suggestion and for watching!

Lanechangers.

The Carrera formula ones all have pretty good magnets if you can find them. I was surprised to find that the NSR formula cars also have magnets, but they're pretty small and they make for a challenging race. They are very different to drive, makes for interesting racing. Thanks for watching!

Yes, this new layout has doubled the fun factor, thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching! 🤙🏼

Actually, I built that from a kit that is offered by a company called magneticracing.com. it's a UK company but they have a really good website and if you like assembling and painting your own advertising structures for for your slot car track this is a great place to go. Thanks for watching!

@@BPSlotRacing Thanks for the tip.

​@@CarreraTrackOntheFloorthere is one big downside. Sometimes shipping from the UK exceeds the price of the item, just sayin' 😬

@@BPSlotRacing Yes that's always a big part of the price you have to consider.

You can get the Dunlop Bridge on E-Bay pretty cheap. Just the bridge - minus the digital lap-counter. If you just want the bridge. I have it - just the plain bridge. And I love it. A nice little (cheap) addition to a track. Not quite as nice as this one. More generic. But still looks great. It's all set up and ready to go - out of the box.

Thanks for watching! 🤙🏼

Both actually, I run mostly 1:32 but the track scale is 1:24 and so it can accommodate the oversize 1:24 cars. That's one of the nice things about Carrera digital. I have two Ford GT40 Mk 2s that I like to race with someone every once in a while. I am still looking for a Ferrari 330 P3 in 1:24 scale but have still yet to find one. The Carrera 1:24s are a bit more rare, less common I guess, but they're still out there and there are collectors and they do make for fun racing 🤙🏼 Thanks for watching and have fun!

The track layout ended up being about 6 ft 7 in (2m) wide along the narrow dimension by about 14 ft. 10 in (4.5m) on the long dimension which made for a nice long front straight away. That makes it 41 ft 6 in around and as it turns out the lanes are almost equal distance mismatched by only a few inches. That should make for really competitive lap times in either lane. It's been great so far for the room that I have, but it's still a bit larger than two sheets of plywood and would need a custom-sized table to set up on. Good luck and let me know how you like it. When you get it built. I'd be happy to share some lap times with my fastest cars. Cheers!

@@blackpearlvoyager4174 I wish I could fit that size in my small garage! Looks like I will have to go around 5 1/2 by 12 feet to have any room. Anyway keep on providing us good videos! Thanks🤠

@@lewbrooks8935 I'll try! Thanks for watching.

​@@blackpearlvoyager4174😂

Oh how I would love to get that track up off the floor, but unfortunately that's not in the cards at this time. Eventually I will be moving to another location where that will be possible, but until then I'm just going to have to use my Swiffer duster before each use 😆. I'm not sure if I can find a rubber mat quite as large as the track, but your idea got me to thinking about possibly some large sections of cardboard that could be slid under without disturbing things too much. Otherwise I have to do routine car maintenance a little more often 🤦‍♂️ Cheers!

Sections of cardboard should do the job. The matting I was suggesting is made up of 600 x 600 mm interlocking pieces that come in packs of six, and by removing the outer edges you can lock them together to provide a base to put your track down on.

@@markphillips5368 that is a great idea and they're fairly cheap at harbor freight. I know the ones. Thanks again!

Maybe that interlocking flooring they make for garages could work. My layout will also be on the floor, but it will be sitting on 1/2" plywood and then a putting green surface on top of the plywood.

@@CarreraTrackOntheFloor yeah I think if it is going to be a permanent location then definitely some plywood underneath would help. In my case, I'm not staying too much longer at this house and the new place will have plenty of room for an even bigger layout 👍🏼

Yep, and I'm really enjoying the long straight away!

Yes, that whole layout is somewhat flawed, especially when you start adding features to it without making other changes. It finally got to the point where I had to do something 😆

I'm happy to hear this triggered some good memories for you. I know it certainly did for me. Be looking for some more videos coming soon. I have altered my track layout to eliminate the overpass, I just hate overpasses, and looking for some faster times and less deslotting 😆 Welcome back to slot cars and digital racing, I would say it's not my grandfather's race track but I'm a grandfather now and so I guess it's not my race track either! It has been a good way to get my grandkids off their phones and doing something with their hands other than scrolling left or right 😆😆 Cheers 🤙🏼

Non ho sperimentato personalmente i problemi con il chip FT che hai appena descritto, ma qui c'è qualcuno che li ha. Vi incoraggio a guardare il suo video.

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@@BPSlotRacing ho visto. Grazie davvero tante

Hi, i resolve the problem with the ft2022 decoder chip , the solution is put the alimentation of the cu out of the cu and conect to the track near the cu in another piece of your circuit. This solution avoid the guaranty, but works. Sorry for my english, im from spain.

@@djhardest6964 ho risolto tale problema. In pratica era smart race che impostando la frenata dall'applicazione e poi dalla CU la cu andava in tilt perché rilevava due settaggi diversi

G'day Rhys! Yeah this digital stuff is not your grandpa's slot car set, I know because I'm a grandpa! Thanks for the subscribe!