It worked out way better then I thought. And to think Viper wouldn't make this for me! LOL I'm gonna have to make a video about Truing tires cause with no magnets it's only the weight of the cars.
Exactly! I didn't prime it first so that the paint would set into the wood unevenly to get the look of asphalt and because there are no magnets it helps with traction.
I didn't prime it first so that the paint would set into the wood unevenly to get the look of asphalt and because there are no magnets it helps with traction. I've been watching your drag series to get some ideas!!! Thank you!
@@slotvalleyracing thank you Dan. Wow the legend watching my channel to get new ideas!!!!!! Means a lot to me!!!! More racing today live on my channel!!!!
I think it would be great if all the H.O. Slot car content creators were monetized. I will always Help advance anyones channel I feel is making an effort and under 1000 subs! Do you join us Mondays at 7 PM cst for Monday Night Slot Talk?? If you are there I can steer the crowd to your page for subs!
Got a pair of the old yellow Aurora AFX controllers in the mail today. Both in good lightly used condition. Both work. Cost me $16 total for the pair including shipping and tax. Have always liked these. Used to kind of take them for granted in a way because they were easy to come by and not as sturdy and durable as Parma controllers. Back in the 70s they were used as rental controllers at the local hobby shop. They had one of the old orange fiberglass "tub tracks" that Aurora made available mainly for commercial use. Fall and winter on Saturday mornings that place was packed. They had a larger track for 1/32 & 1/24 slot cars too. 5¢ bottles of orange, grape and strawberry Crush. I remember when they also got the first Arcade version of Atari Pole Position. It got plenty of use but didn't really take away from the slot car racing. Us kids raced HO and the larger scales were mostly adults. Some of them spent serious money on going fast. Between the cost of winning races and home video games most of the raceways faded away. Luckily the hobby stayed alive! In some ways it's better than ever!
I have to agree with you there Jeff! I look forward to getting your hobby shop review. I check in with my shop once a week just to see what is selling. And by the sounds of things you are seeing lots of basic AW slot cars taking up space and sitting on the shelves for a long time.
You can also run 1/24 scale on that if you would have made it longer lol looks great. I built a 1)24 scale drag strip it has 53 feet that is powered and thats from the starting beam to finish beam total length is 75 feet with 23 feet of un powered track to slow down or i can power the rest of the track and run longer track length if i wanna fo top speed runs and i have add on track to make it a true scale 1/24 scale mile long track so that way we can do 1 mile 1/24 scale speed runs and fadtest car that i have built has done 52.5 mph turned down anf in 1/24 scale that is 254 mph which is 45 mph slowwer then 1:1 scale mile top speed record so its ptetty close to scale speeds on a scale mile run which makes it fun and its challenging to get these cars to even run 200 mph scale speed in 1/24 scale in a 1 mile scale track and the track 1 mile record is held by my buddy who built a car that fid 101.5 real moh and that is 497.25 scale mph and that is screaming and it took him alot of tunning and work and building different chassis and desingnjng dofferent chassis designs until he got rid of all the wheel spin and right gear ratio to the huge brushless rc car motor that is in it
Thank you! I didn't prime it first so that the paint would set into the wood unevenly to get the look of asphalt and because there are no magnets it helps with traction
Thanks Mark! For now yes but I plan to cover it up a bit in the take off area. There are no magnets or at least no metal on the track to pull them down.
@@slotvalleyracing I thought, why not take the magnets out on G+ to take away the mag drag, they will go faster......All the cars do his hop down the track slowly.
Nice looking build you have going. A ¼ mile HO scale drag strip is 20.6 feet. I'm planning on building my 2nd HO dragstrip soon. I don't have the room for a 20.6 track this time so it will be short a few feet. It will have a shutdown area and a return lane as well. The first one that I built was constructed similar to yours. I used a circular saw for the slots and copper tape for the rails. The only difference is that I used some fishing line, then secured it at each section end and in several other spots then added the copper tape on top. The fishing line acted like the rails so there was no need to modify the pickup shoes. It also meant no downforce from the traction magnets to slow down the cars. Since I now own a CNC, it will be much easier to build this next one. I plan to video the build this time as well. Here are videos of my first track. ruclips.net/video/as-yYO4_q-I/видео.html&si=wQVmzIExEGOZ8lLG ruclips.net/video/HdvobXvFc74/видео.html&si=8k8h__IWc6ZIvSJI ruclips.net/video/JERZn9oLc_c/видео.html&si=kBoBOHb4dL870N56
they were burning rubber when they were taking off from the line. excellent job Dan
Almost like the real thing!
Thank you!
@@slotvalleyracing it was very realistic seeing them crow hopping as they took off. you have done an excellent job
I'm anxious to see cars running down the track!
It worked out way better then I thought. And to think Viper wouldn't make this for me! LOL
I'm gonna have to make a video about Truing tires cause with no magnets it's only the weight of the cars.
Still love your Dragstrip!!
@@slotvalleyracing Its been a long process to get there, but well worth it. Thanks Dan!
Very nice work!
I just realised that I could run larger scale car down it!
Great work! I'm impressed!
Thanks a lot!
Just needs a killer timer!
WOW Dan--- great progress! The cars look like there getting good traction off the painted surface...Keep up the good work!
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Exactly!
I didn't prime it first so that the paint would set into the wood unevenly to get the look of asphalt and because there are no magnets it helps with traction.
Great looking track Dan. Thanks for the video.
Thanks for watching Dave!
Looking good!!!!!!!
I didn't prime it first so that the paint would set into the wood unevenly to get the look of asphalt and because there are no magnets it helps with traction.
I've been watching your drag series to get some ideas!!! Thank you!
@@slotvalleyracing thank you Dan. Wow the legend watching my channel to get new ideas!!!!!! Means a lot to me!!!!
More racing today live on my channel!!!!
I think it would be great if all the H.O. Slot car content creators were monetized. I will always Help advance anyones channel I feel is making an effort and under 1000 subs!
Do you join us Mondays at 7 PM cst for Monday Night Slot Talk??
If you are there I can steer the crowd to your page for subs!
@@slotvalleyracing I don't think so, that'll be 2am in the morning our time........, but thanks for the offer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Got a pair of the old yellow Aurora AFX controllers in the mail today. Both in good lightly used condition. Both work. Cost me $16 total for the pair including shipping and tax. Have always liked these. Used to kind of take them for granted in a way because they were easy to come by and not as sturdy and durable as Parma controllers. Back in the 70s they were used as rental controllers at the local hobby shop. They had one of the old orange fiberglass "tub tracks" that Aurora made available mainly for commercial use. Fall and winter on Saturday mornings that place was packed. They had a larger track for 1/32 & 1/24 slot cars too. 5¢ bottles of orange, grape and strawberry Crush. I remember when they also got the first Arcade version of Atari Pole Position. It got plenty of use but didn't really take away from the slot car racing. Us kids raced HO and the larger scales were mostly adults. Some of them spent serious money on going fast. Between the cost of winning races and home video games most of the raceways faded away. Luckily the hobby stayed alive! In some ways it's better than ever!
I have to agree with you there Jeff!
I look forward to getting your hobby shop review. I check in with my shop once a week just to see what is selling. And by the sounds of things you are seeing lots of basic AW slot cars taking up space and sitting on the shelves for a long time.
Cool Build, & Video!
Glad you enjoyed it
Dam that looks great professional job you need to think about building for sale
Great work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would make these on a larger scale but most my business would be in the USA. Costly shipping and OSB weighs a ton!
Watched again good job
Thanks Rusty!
Pretty Cool!
Thanks Jeff!
You can also run 1/24 scale on that if you would have made it longer lol looks great. I built a 1)24 scale drag strip it has 53 feet that is powered and thats from the starting beam to finish beam total length is 75 feet with 23 feet of un powered track to slow down or i can power the rest of the track and run longer track length if i wanna fo top speed runs and i have add on track to make it a true scale 1/24 scale mile long track so that way we can do 1 mile 1/24 scale speed runs and fadtest car that i have built has done 52.5 mph turned down anf in 1/24 scale that is 254 mph which is 45 mph slowwer then 1:1 scale mile top speed record so its ptetty close to scale speeds on a scale mile run which makes it fun and its challenging to get these cars to even run 200 mph scale speed in 1/24 scale in a 1 mile scale track and the track 1 mile record is held by my buddy who built a car that fid 101.5 real moh and that is 497.25 scale mph and that is screaming and it took him alot of tunning and work and building different chassis and desingnjng dofferent chassis designs until he got rid of all the wheel spin and right gear ratio to the huge brushless rc car motor that is in it
Way cool dude
Thanks!
How are you doing? How is the weather in your area?
@@slotvalleyracing it’s great Dan, this is Chris Baylis down in Ga. I changed my channel name remember ?
Yep I remember. How can I forget the guy with the coolest slot car room I have ever seen! I'm a big nature fan!
Nice job Dan. Did you prime the osb board before spraying?
Thank you!
I didn't prime it first so that the paint would set into the wood unevenly to get the look of asphalt and because there are no magnets it helps with traction
Wow, congrats and nice work on this setup. Those 💩 4 Gear tires need to be honed to get rid of all that nasty wheel hop.
I'll use my Dremel for that! Sounds like a good video!
Great job Dan! Track looks awesome. Are the tires spinning on the copper tape off the line?
Thanks Mark!
For now yes but I plan to cover it up a bit in the take off area.
There are no magnets or at least no metal on the track to pull them down.
@@slotvalleyracing I thought, why not take the magnets out on G+ to take away the mag drag, they will go faster......All the cars do his hop down the track slowly.
Where do you connect the power from the plastic track to the copper tape Thank you
On the underside of the track I have 2 AFX power tracks that are wired to the Copper tape
Nice looking build you have going.
A ¼ mile HO scale drag strip is 20.6 feet.
I'm planning on building my 2nd HO dragstrip soon. I don't have the room for a 20.6 track this time so it will be short a few feet.
It will have a shutdown area and a return lane as well.
The first one that I built was constructed similar to yours.
I used a circular saw for the slots and copper tape for the rails.
The only difference is that I used some fishing line, then secured it at each section end and in several other spots then added the copper tape on top.
The fishing line acted like the rails so there was no need to modify the pickup shoes. It also meant no downforce from the traction magnets to slow down the cars.
Since I now own a CNC, it will be much easier to build this next one. I plan to video the build this time as well.
Here are videos of my first track.
ruclips.net/video/as-yYO4_q-I/видео.html&si=wQVmzIExEGOZ8lLG
ruclips.net/video/HdvobXvFc74/видео.html&si=8k8h__IWc6ZIvSJI
ruclips.net/video/JERZn9oLc_c/видео.html&si=kBoBOHb4dL870N56
They dont race 1/4 mile any more!
How many power plugs did you need. One powrr plug can run how many lanes. Im want to go your route but for six lanes thanks.
I used AFX TriPower Power packs, but I would use aftermarket power supply...10a 30v