Oh, please Ray... Genius? More like 40 years of trial and error. But thanks so much for your kind comment. Please go back and share the video with your friends, and don't forget to subscribe my friend!
What I LOVE about the basement, the track, the whole production, is the thought of Jimmy going through the process of figuring it all out, trial and error, and the undoubtedly incredible satisfaction of solving huge issues to get things to where they are today. Who'd have thought to condense the lanes down to where he has, AND to put in lane changers? Incredible. Another thing: Having his young relatives and surely their friends over and letting them have a go is something that cannot be discounted one little bit. Very, very kind, giving fella. I, like so many others, would love to see it all in person, and more importantly, meet Jimmy in person and express to him my admiration for the person he is and the feat he has accomplished. I just watched a little more of the video, and I'm curious as to what makes a 'faster car'? I can REALLY see how that would be an immense amount of fun after watching the portion of the cars going round the track. That raceway is so impressive and detailed and huge! So many questions when I let my mind wander to the actual reality of a bunch of people getting together and holding some undoubtedly great races.
I had a very simple Scalextric track and about four cars when I was in primary school 50-odd years ago, and am not involved in slot-car racing at all today, but everything about your uncle AND his track just blows me away; utterly sublime. Thank you for showing us!
Uncle Jim is a design guru. The creativity of his ideas and the way he devises and applies the technical solution are truly impressive. However, I suspect that there is a submarine captain somewhere who to this day cannot understand how that torpedo missed that sitting target! 😯
Truth to your words … early war torpedo efforts were not up to par and unfortunately there were many misses until they corrected the problem . They ran deeper than the settings, faulty magnetic detonators and fragile contact detonators. No mention of those solenoids specifically. The ones Uncle Jim uses must be from the new improved Mark 18 ?
@@robertmartin6035 I used to be in the Royal Navy (Electrical Power lecturer) and one of my weaponeer friends actually has a torpedo man's hand book that is of WWII vintage. Although his speciality was ship killer missiles (Sea Dart) and anti air (Sea Wolf) I am sure he can clear it up for me. Or he will know someone who can. I cannot remember the type of anti submarine torpedo we carried on the Lynx helicopters circa 1991. I know they had their own sonar guidance suite but I think the Lynx could also use its dipping sonar and send telemetry data to the torpedo to help better triangulate the target.
I'm very glad that this video made how the track operates a bit clearer for you Dave. Stay tuned and share this video with others. Thanks for your comments my friend.
I love and hate this. Knowing when this guy passes on the future of all this work is uncertain and past very well may mean nothing to someone. When my dad died, I was 27, and half of his basement was a massive Lionel layout that we spent our childhood all the way into our adult lives building with him. Started out by painting the walls and building the decks when I was probably 8 or 9, then we began creating elevations and forming terrain by the time I was ten. Next was laying track and laying out raodways. Once that was done, we went on to putting the finish on the roads, sidewalks, parking lots and the terrain. Then was adding ballast, sand, gravel, river and lakebeds, grass, trees, and asphalt blemishes. Next was wiring up the tracks and switching systems, signals, wiring for buildings, street lights, and everything else. Then, we built the roadway bridges and train tressle bridges (era correct) and setting the buildings that were all detailed beforehand inside and out, some were hand made, others were kits. After the larger stuff was in and all the bridges and tressles had finishes on them we set to laying track and utility poles, signs, traffic lights, trees, shrubbery,and other minute details like gas and eletric meters, wells, mailboxes, trash cans,camp sites at the lake, and just tone of detail work that took a couple years of working every night, sometimes until 3 in the morning. Last major thing we did, was really cool, dad used telephone wire that we spent hours had painting and all of the buildings' electrical for lights and signage, and moving displays were wired up, via the utility poles with everything being tied together to the switching hub that was under the sub-station. Finally, after 9 years we were able to put power to it and run the locomotives and kick everything on. We added more and more detail as time passed, and even had a fiber optic sky. Even after all that, it was never really finished. He got sick when he was 39 and passed at 44, leaving the 30x48 ft layout impossible to remove from the house, of course, unless one wanted to take years to do it. Ultimately, the house was supposed to go to myself or a sibling, but greed took over and my father's sibling took the house out from under us. They tore out the layout and burned most of it, wooden tie tracks and all. They sold all of the cars, locomotives, and other things that they knew were of value and kept the money. Now the basement is empty and I will never step foot in that house again. Nor will I speak a single word to any of the family that did the damage that is done. The people had no respect or understanding for that work that was done and the fact it was the only place that our father was chill and not angry all the time because I think it helped to take him back to a simpler time in his life which took the load off from being a parent to young and instead of having to be our father, he kinda got to be like our big brother in a way and got to kinda be a kid with us. Outside of the basement, the man was pretty harsh...and that is putting it lightly. If anyone ever has to go through anything like this out there, take my advice and take the time to save whatever it is because it is hard to understand what that kind of gone feels like when you could have at least had a way that they are still around even if it's not in their physical form anymore.
That’s awful. It’s even worse because it’s family. I’m terribly sorry that you had to go through that. 🥺 It seems like at least one of Jimmy’s relatives is taking a genuine interest and is chronicling his uncle’s awesome works. If nothing else, there will always be a record of it. I hope that you at least have pictures and home videos of your dad’s masterpiece.
Sadly your situation happens a lot where a man builds up his hobby in the basement or barn and through time family members leave us and big changes happen and all that time and love put into a project get destroyed in an instant by people that have no interest. It's sad thinking about all that has been lost through time but while we're here make the best of it and pass on our knowledge and skills to our children. I've seen guys with multi million dollar setups in barns and large basements and wonder what will happen to all there scaled down worlds they've taken years to build when there gone. Me, I've accumulated a hobby store in my house over the years and go through moods where I set-up a HO train set around Christmas and take it down after a bit and then setup a slot car track and play with grandkids then later in the year setup a 1/43 R/C racetrack and show the kids what it was like to race back in the day when I raced 1/12 scale but now I the privacy of my house and not a mall or commercial building.
Pure Genius!!! This could never fail in a lifetime, unless getting rusted. This conception is bulletproof. Reminds me a bit of how pinballs back in the days were put together. Quite a lot of similarities ! I love it!
I agree Reno. My circuits are as blue collar as circuits on a pinball game machine. But they are robust to say the least. Thanks for your comment. Please go back and share the video with your friends, and don't forget to subscribe my friend!
As a fellow 1:32 slot car junkie, the amount of resourcefulness, creativity, knowledge, and patience it took to make this track is simply mind blowing and cannot be understated. It's really impressive, especially considering he was cranking out features modern digital setups are only now bringing to market, 30yrs ago. Digitial systems, the Carrera D1:32 system in particular simplifies all of this to a level unseen, and the aftermarket 3rd party support is growing everyday. I've even seen people strip Carrera features and place them in routed wood track.
The advantage that the AC2car system has is that, although we can only run two cars in one slot rather than 6, the Careers digital can only work with Carrrera cars. We can use any car from all manufacturers on this AC2car track. Please forward our track videos to your friends and family. Thanks for your comments my friend!
@@jimmyattard1446 I sincerely hope that my comment wasn’t seen as a critique. All of the features of this layout are 30-40yrs ahead of their time, it’s a one of kind feat of engineering that simply will never be replicated with the advent of digital systems.
@@jimmyattard1446 what I DO need advice on is scenery. Did you bite the bullet and just go “O” gauge/scale figurines, or another route? I’m having a heck of a time finding modern 2.25” figures. I’m thinking about spending the money and getting a 3D printer and calling it a day. Also I’m local to Detroit as well, any good hobby shops still around?
Well FFA, after playing with this hobby for 50 years it's easy to know enough to share my success and failures. Hope it increases your fun. Stay tuned and share this video with others. Thanks for your comments my friend.
Another awesome video. Love the how toos, so I lesson my mistakes. I would love to see Jim's car collection. I have around 200, most never ran. I have my favorites which I tend to run the most. Thanks again for sharing this wonderful hobby.
Hopefully Jeff, it helped you understand how lane changing gave me a narrower roadway. The narrow track means more racing in a given space. Stay tuned and share this video with others. Thanks for your comments my friend.
Well Jay, after 38 years I too still find playing on my track fascinating. Thanks for the kind comment. Please go back and share the video with your friends, and don't forget to subscribe my friend.
This is so interesting. I think my model railroad stuff brought me here, but I had simple slot cars from Tyco when I was a kid, and then there was one place that had, comparably, a much simpler slot car track in my home town of just over 12k people. It was fun, but wow this is crazy, in a good way.
It's nice to remember the fun you had as a kid, Andy. I guess building my track I never grew up. Please go back and share the video with your friends, and don't forget to subscribe my friend!
Rigging up a controller "quick release" system with the alligator clips is BRILLIANT! Guess the saying " necessity is the mother of all inventions " is 100% accurate here.
This is amazing! I am also 100% on board with the analog system. I think the digital system is not a real gain for the hobby. If I just think how often the very simple straight wiring inside the cars broke on me, I don't want to start to think how that would be with digital. My brain also took of with how much easier it would be to make things like this with Mikrocontrollers being more easily available today. One could make a "sensing" lane changer. Finally the only thing I think one looses with such a permanent design, is the variability. Every time I build my track which is more than 30m of standard carrera, I build a totally new track.
You made some good points Peter. But when you consider the length of a lap on my track is 150 feet, then if you change lanes into the slot cut for you on the opposite side of the track, you can drive 300ft before negotiating a turn the second time. That's a lot of track to run on. You won't tire of it here. Please go back and share the video with your friends, and don't forget to subscribe my friend!
Thanks Mike. I do hope it increases your interest in maybe building a track of your own one day. Stay tuned and share this video with others. Thanks for your comments my friend.
@@jimmyattard1446 I would love a slot car track if I wasn't already doing model trains. I worked for 1 year at Celebrity Sports Center in Denver and they had four tacks (I think) and I spent all my money there. Mike
Why you are welcome Robert. Hope you are involved in the hobby of scale racing. Stay tuned and share this video with others. Thanks for your comments my friend.
Jim … I’m a Postwar train guy , and you got my attention with Lionel power, low voltage AC. Ingenious my friend and simple too. Although there is nothing simple about your engineering and the tried and true testing to develop. Your modeling skills are terrific as well. Thanks for sharing. Most enjoyable.
Always great to hear Jim talk about his track. Whether it's the modeling aspect the hows of why it works or seeing those beautiful cars going around. OK can probably find those car window circuit boards but where exactly do you shop for solenoids from torpedoes lol. Be fun to see some racing or a walk through of his collection of cars. Both would be great videos to see. Happy racing.
Thanks for the nice comments John. 30 years ago their where many Army and Navy surplus stores around. That's where I would buy some electronics and surplus wire for my track. Stay tuned and share this video with others. Thanks for your comments my friend.
Wow A+ I never got that kinda grade in school, Dan! Thanks for your kind comment. Please go back and share the video with your friends, and don't forget to subscribe my friend.
Why thanks Kurt. Not sure about a masterpiece but it is great fun for me. Go back and forward our videos to more of your friends because the guys plan to do more in the future.
Well sir thank you for your kind comment about my track and lane changing on it! Please go back and share the video with your friends, and don't forget to subscribe my friend!
Thanks for your support Mick! See more 1/32 slot racing and tracks by subscribing to the Lunch King channel. Go back and share with your friends and family my friend.
the switching is like a traction or trolly layout check out midwest modeler traction layout how he makes street car switches just like model railroading and switching operations
Do you have a booklet or guide to build a track like this not as large, but something similar to it with the same wiring specs great job on your design🥃
Wow! Absolutely amazing! So much engineering well put together! So cool! Thanks for sharing brother! Wish I could see and play with this race track in person! Merry Christmas!
Great to see a supper man showing his skills. On how to make it happen for everybody.great idea. Just wish I had the time..I have lots of cars and tracks that I need to start making up to race one day..
Thanks for the kind words Mike! I'd like to do more detail on how AC2car works for you. Go back and forward our videos to more of your friends because the guys plan to do more in the future.
"My friends call this the Fred Flinstone design but it has worked flawlessly for over 30 years". Ah, the spirit of my dad and my friends' dads growing up in metro Milwaukee in the 70s and 80s...
Amazing. Fanastic. Really nice to see this. I've a carrera digita 132l and I've to say I like it alot... but your system that is 30years old looks more advanced :)
Wow Tugs, Its good to hear from someone like you who has enjoyed running more than one car in a slot. To say that my system maybe better, makes all the planning and testing I did worth it. Thank you for the nice comment. Stay tuned and share this video with other friends. Thanks for your nice words my friend.
Why thank you for your encouragement Hyster! See more 1/32 slot racing and tracks by subscribing to the Lunch King channel. Go back and share with your friends and family my friend.
I've watched a couple of the other videos about this track. Great design and way before it's time with multiple cars in a lane and lane changing. I will say making a car digital is more than the 7cents you indicate here. I'm wondering if you install the diode can the car be run on a standard dc track?
Yes Phil, the direction the diode is soldered into the cars wiring makes it either an A car or a B car. A cars can run on any other non A2car tracks. Please go back and forward our track videos to your friends and family. Thanks for your comments my friend!
Yes Wildcard, there are many ideas that could be used, and have been used, to create a lane changer. I even saw a guy build a track where you simply pull a string and it actuated his lane changer. Go back and forward our videos to more of your friends because the guys plan to do more in the future.
Rob it was as much fun building it as it is racing on it! Go back and forward our videos to more of your friends because the guys plan to do more in the future.
Genifer please go back to the Lunch King channel and see the documentary where I explain how using an AC transformer rather than a DC allows the AC2car system to run two cars in the same slot. Please forward our track videos to your friends and family. Thanks for your comments my friend!
Genifer go to the long or short documentary. Half way through it I talk about how I get two cars running in the same slot using a Lionel toy train transformer. Which is an AC power supply. Keep trying my friend.
Is there only the one place to change lanes? -and- when a car goes off the track (say one of six cars racing), how do you know which slot the car is supposed to be in? Thank you. Awesome track!
Neil, there is only one place on the track where in 150 feet of racing that cars can change lanes. The lane changing happens after all cars are forced to cue up in single file to go around the tight hairpin turn. If you do nothing your car stays racing on the left hand side of the track. If you hold the lane change button down as you go thru the hairpin, your car will be directed to its slot on the right hand side of the track. The fact that all 8 cars come thru nose to tail cars won't knock each other off when they switch sides of the track. Though the lap is 150 ft long if you include a second lap on the opposite side of the track than you'll experience 300 feet of racing before going over the same track again.
I'm sorry how long does the strip last for the thing that use power the cars up with how long does that last for I'm just curious I don't know anything about it I'm sorry if I say I'm sorry if I sound goofy but I don't know if you can answer that question one of these days I'll be happy to listen to it thank you
Mark a simple Scalextric track can give you lots of fun....but building your own wood track to race them on would give the ultimate enjoyment. Go back and forward our videos to more of your friends because the guys plan to do more in the future.
Sure TWG... I wish you lived close to Dearborn Michigan. You'd get an invite for sure for your nice comment. Go back and forward our videos to more of your friends because the guys plan to do more in the future.
@@jimmyattard1446 That's very nice. I'm in Colombia, South America. Maybe I can blow some of those air-miles I've accrued? Here they would just want to go FAST and not appreciate the intricacies of what you've done. I bought my kid a slot car track for X-mas and it was such a disappointment. I'm thinking of starting simple, creating a round track with lane switching. Parts and materials like you use are so hard (if not impossible) to find here.
I’m sharing your how-to’s on an HO slot car building FB page. Lotta love & likes on them. Many build their own track. Do you accept ‘tours’ or visits from fans? I live in MISSOURi, but from Pontiac originally. My Mom & sister still there and I visit once a year. Would love to see this!
Thank you! There is a whole lot of us baby boomers that are getting into this hobby now. I retired just a couple years ago and I believe I’m the same age as Jimmy so I can relate!
Just be diligent and focused Yohan and you can build a track like mine too. Please go back and share the video with your friends, and don't forget to subscribe my friend!
Buddy I have got to give it to you I would love to have it to play with my Grand Son. My brother and I loved the one we had. I will send him the only car I found from it ,he will love it.
Mark, I am amazed at how many guys like you have commented with good memories that our LK slotcar track videos have brought them. Stay tuned and share this video with other friends. Thanks for your comments my friend.
Aha, found it! Very clever system. How is control of a car maintained by the 'driver' after the lane change, since on a regular analog track, if a car skips lanes, it becomes a rider. The original 'driver' and that controller no longer control the car in a typical analog system.
Good question WB. You have to understand that each lane that you run your car in has a second slot cut into the track for it to go around on the outside of the roadway. If you do nothing at the lane change area your car stays in the slot cut for it on the LH side of the track. If you push the lane change button your car gets funneled into its "passing lane" cut for it all the way around the RH side of the track. So you are not a rider because you are still in your lane controlled by you. See more 1/32 slot racing and tracks by subscribing to the Lunch King channel. Go back and share with your friends and family my friend.
@@jimmyattard1446 Thank you for that explanation! So basically each car has a choice of two slots. LH or RH. How is your track able to take 8 cars with only 7 slots? Fantastic track by the way!
@@cuddlestsheep5863 thanks again for your kind support CS. Please go back and see the two documentary segments early in Lunch King segments about my track. Half way through I explain that because my son was 5 I cut lane for right down the middle of the track with no lane changing at the hairpin. It did not get a second slot around the track. Glad you found my work interesting.
Ithank you for posting video and sharing everything about your track I got a few great ideas from you on how to improve the tracks I got and the lane change thing you built I did that to my 1)24 scale slot track as soon as I got it my 1/24 track is almost same size of yours just 26 feet of more track length . I got a big 9 lane analog old school commercial built 1/24 scale track in my 4 car shop with a 6 lane giant ho scale track and the 2/24 9 lane is modeled after Daytona type layout you can run oval and by switching three track pieces easily you run the road course infield that uses same sections of oval as Daytona. And my ho layout 6 lane is a road course and my other ho layout is a dirt oval where we run dirt mods late models sprint cars street stocks and mega g plus nascar's and nascar camping world truckbseries I airbrushed the track to look like a dirt track as well and looks really good and on the floor on other side I got a 40ft by 30ft false floor with crc rc racing carpet and 2/24 scale walls to race road course and oval 1/24 scale and even smaller like the 1rc cars and we run the mini z cars mostly and have jumps made to run the mini losi and any 1/24 scale short course or stadium truck. I have 20 ppl that show up to race each track every race night for what ever track we running. We run points series for every track only so your points from every class of racing on that track all adds up for the points championship. we put 20 dollars down every race for the points fund. So the top 3 in points for each track will win money and a nice trophy our points series runs every 4 months every other weekend we run every class and have a month break and do it all over. To make it cheap on my friends and ppl who come to race the ho scale tracks I have cars that are competitive and setup equal for every class and 40 cars for every ho class we run and each person picks two cars for each class that they wanna use for whole season. Now with the 1)24 scale slot car track I only have like 5 cars for each of tyhe three classes we run so guys don't have to buy a bunch of cars to play but when it comes to the rc track I have two cars for each class that ppl can use as back up only. Also on my commercial 1/24 slot track I added buttons three of them Infront of each controller area one activates my 15 different lane change areas on the oval and what ever lane changer the car is gonna hit next you hold button down and when car shoe strikes it activates only when car goes over it and works very effective I used some rc plane servos at first they worked but not great and we t to solonoids and relays. And on road course layout I got 10 lane change areas. the racing looks so realistic and amazing with all the passing on oval when we got the modern cup cars going with brass scratch built chassis and modern 2022 nascar 1)24 scale model kits it looks like a legit nascar race I got a bump draft protypr design in the works where you get close to another car Infront of you and voltage boost will activate and you can bump draft or bump to move guy out of way to pass or bump draft to get a bigger lead gap on rest of field. I got it working but still trying to get it to work quickly and reliably. I got it working where you push a button and it gives your car a quick boost of power to pass on oval and have it setup to only 5 times for each car during whole race and I got it almost to where it works reliably only when your a certain distance from car Infront of you for bump drafting effect and unlimited amount of times and you can just hold button down as long you want on oval. And I got a real working scale size jumbo screen that has live video of the race up close like you would see at Daytona in person cause you cant see whole track so you see it on jumbo screens
That's amazing YKE ! A real slotcar addict for sure. Glad you are having fun with it. Go back and forward our videos to more of your friends because the guys plan to do more in the future.
Kevin go to the Lunch King channel and watch the documentary. There I explain the AC2car system I developed allowing two cars to share a slot using AC power rather than DC. Please go back and forward our track videos to your friends and family. Thanks for your comments my friend!
Correct Danny! If you do nothing your car will always ride in your slot on the left hand side of the road. When you hold the lane change button down as you negotiate the hairpin, then your car is directed to its second slot cut for it on the right hand side of the road. Please go back and share the video with your friends, and don't forget to subscribe my friend!
Rodney my AC2car system may not run 20 cars but we run 8 cars on 4 lanes, with absolutely any make of slotcar and. 17 cent diode. I'll do a deeper explanation someday on the system itself. Go back and forward our videos to more of your friends because the guys plan to do more in the future.
Yes M1000 RR, I would very much like to be know to be one willing to teach others the joy of building your own track. Please go back and share the video with your friends, and don't forget to subscribe my friend!
James it took 2 to 3 years to build the track....but of course I had a wife and 3 sons to care for nineteen routing slots. Go back to LK sight on You Tube to see more and forward our videos to more of your friends because the guys plan to do more in the future.
B Breeze, good question. My Electrical engineer son has been working on a lap counter for 8 years. I've had all the wiring set up for it for many years now. Oh well. Please go back and share the video with your friends, and don't forget to subscribe my friend.
Sure John, why not. It certainly would make for a small fine lane changer but it could be done...and a ton of fun too. Go back and forward our videos to more of your friends because the guys plan to do more in the future.
Michiana, nothing but common sense would keep someone sharing a lane from doing that. However that has never ever happened here. If it did it had better be an accident or that driver will never drive here again. Please go back and forward the video to your friends and don't forget to subscribe to the Lunch King channel my friend!
@@jimmyattard1446 Jimmy, I suppose that's the same thing with Lane changing? Say car B is following car A closely in one of their respective slots, and car A engaged the lane changer. Doesn't car B then also change lanes without ever having pressed the button, if following close enough and car A not releasing the button basically instantly?
Well Oleg I tried my best to make my circuits as simple and clean as I could for fear that I would need to do repairs. But thankfully after 36 years of running I've never had to repair a single circuit! I must have done something right. Please go back and share the video with your friends, and don't forget to subscribe my friend!
If they were to make a track that was duplex several different layers put a camera in the front of the car and drive the car from the first person view my father made a train set model of our city on the Ohio River has been duplexed he bought his first car with it the model my father made looked a lot like the one you see in Beetlejuice although my father's model train set up Avatar of our city was not duplexed the one you see in Fred Rogers Mr Rogers Show our city in Cincinnati looks identical that particular model is duplexed
Thanks for your comments Mark. We did put a camera on a car. You can view it along with other videos on the Lunch King channel. Please go back and share the video with your friends, and don't forget to subscribe my friend.
@@jimmyattard1446 thank you for doing this I need to set up a security system on my truck because the police have attacked before and they need to stop doing this because they work for us and I care for them and we need them but we need to know what the right and wrong things are to do I think we need citizen review boards that was Alexis de tocqueville's suggestion his book Democracy in America
She rarely comes down stairs Jay. Blessed to have the whole basement to myself. Of course I've busted my behind on the rest of the house for her. Please go back and share the video with your friends, and don't forget to subscribe my friend!
Jimmy takes his hobby very seriously. I love the way he improvises things from the dumpster into his little slotcar city.
Uncle Jim is nothing short of a genius!
Oh, please Ray... Genius? More like 40 years of trial and error. But thanks so much for your kind comment. Please go back and share the video with your friends, and don't forget to subscribe my friend!
What I LOVE about the basement, the track, the whole production, is the thought of Jimmy going through the process of figuring it all out, trial and error, and the undoubtedly incredible satisfaction of solving huge issues to get things to where they are today. Who'd have thought to condense the lanes down to where he has, AND to put in lane changers? Incredible. Another thing: Having his young relatives and surely their friends over and letting them have a go is something that cannot be discounted one little bit. Very, very kind, giving fella. I, like so many others, would love to see it all in person, and more importantly, meet Jimmy in person and express to him my admiration for the person he is and the feat he has accomplished. I just watched a little more of the video, and I'm curious as to what makes a 'faster car'? I can REALLY see how that would be an immense amount of fun after watching the portion of the cars going round the track. That raceway is so impressive and detailed and huge! So many questions when I let my mind wander to the actual reality of a bunch of people getting together and holding some undoubtedly great races.
Thank you for the kind words and the track has had so many young kids and adaults race on it for years and hopefully many more years to come.
I had a very simple Scalextric track and about four cars when I was in primary school 50-odd years ago, and am not involved in slot-car racing at all today, but everything about your uncle AND his track just blows me away; utterly sublime. Thank you for showing us!
Thankyou very much for your kind remarks Stadler! Please forward our track videos to your friends and family. Thanks for your comments my friend!
I have a 2 car track still
We used to race on AFX 50 years ago. It is one of my favorite childhood memories.
Uncle Jim is a design guru. The creativity of his ideas and the way he devises and applies the technical solution are truly impressive. However, I suspect that there is a submarine captain somewhere who to this day cannot understand how that torpedo missed that sitting target! 😯
Truth to your words … early war torpedo efforts were not up to par and unfortunately there were many misses until they corrected the problem . They ran deeper than the settings, faulty magnetic detonators and fragile contact detonators. No mention of those solenoids specifically. The ones Uncle Jim uses must be from the new improved Mark 18 ?
@@robertmartin6035 I used to be in the Royal Navy (Electrical Power lecturer) and one of my weaponeer friends actually has a torpedo man's hand book that is of WWII vintage. Although his speciality was ship killer missiles (Sea Dart) and anti air (Sea Wolf) I am sure he can clear it up for me. Or he will know someone who can. I cannot remember the type of anti submarine torpedo we carried on the Lynx helicopters circa 1991. I know they had their own sonar guidance suite but I think the Lynx could also use its dipping sonar and send telemetry data to the torpedo to help better triangulate the target.
There is a kid in every one of us no matter how old we get. This brought back memories. Thanks
So many guys remark that the track reminds them of a more care free time Sammy!
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So simple yet so complex. Seeing behind the scenes of how it all works is very cool 👍👍😎
I'm very glad that this video made how the track operates a bit clearer for you Dave. Stay tuned and share this video with others. Thanks for your comments my friend.
As a model railroader, hats off to the amazing track and well made electrics!
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Looks like a lot of fun! Very cool with the track shifting! Never seen that before!
I love and hate this. Knowing when this guy passes on the future of all this work is uncertain and past very well may mean nothing to someone. When my dad died, I was 27, and half of his basement was a massive Lionel layout that we spent our childhood all the way into our adult lives building with him. Started out by painting the walls and building the decks when I was probably 8 or 9, then we began creating elevations and forming terrain by the time I was ten. Next was laying track and laying out raodways. Once that was done, we went on to putting the finish on the roads, sidewalks, parking lots and the terrain. Then was adding ballast, sand, gravel, river and lakebeds, grass, trees, and asphalt blemishes. Next was wiring up the tracks and switching systems, signals, wiring for buildings, street lights, and everything else. Then, we built the roadway bridges and train tressle bridges (era correct) and setting the buildings that were all detailed beforehand inside and out, some were hand made, others were kits. After the larger stuff was in and all the bridges and tressles had finishes on them we set to laying track and utility poles, signs, traffic lights, trees, shrubbery,and other minute details like gas and eletric meters, wells, mailboxes, trash cans,camp sites at the lake, and just tone of detail work that took a couple years of working every night, sometimes until 3 in the morning. Last major thing we did, was really cool, dad used telephone wire that we spent hours had painting and all of the buildings' electrical for lights and signage, and moving displays were wired up, via the utility poles with everything being tied together to the switching hub that was under the sub-station. Finally, after 9 years we were able to put power to it and run the locomotives and kick everything on. We added more and more detail as time passed, and even had a fiber optic sky. Even after all that, it was never really finished. He got sick when he was 39 and passed at 44, leaving the 30x48 ft layout impossible to remove from the house, of course, unless one wanted to take years to do it. Ultimately, the house was supposed to go to myself or a sibling, but greed took over and my father's sibling took the house out from under us. They tore out the layout and burned most of it, wooden tie tracks and all. They sold all of the cars, locomotives, and other things that they knew were of value and kept the money. Now the basement is empty and I will never step foot in that house again. Nor will I speak a single word to any of the family that did the damage that is done. The people had no respect or understanding for that work that was done and the fact it was the only place that our father was chill and not angry all the time because I think it helped to take him back to a simpler time in his life which took the load off from being a parent to young and instead of having to be our father, he kinda got to be like our big brother in a way and got to kinda be a kid with us. Outside of the basement, the man was pretty harsh...and that is putting it lightly. If anyone ever has to go through anything like this out there, take my advice and take the time to save whatever it is because it is hard to understand what that kind of gone feels like when you could have at least had a way that they are still around even if it's not in their physical form anymore.
That’s awful. It’s even worse because it’s family. I’m terribly sorry that you had to go through that. 🥺
It seems like at least one of Jimmy’s relatives is taking a genuine interest and is chronicling his uncle’s awesome works. If nothing else, there will always be a record of it. I hope that you at least have pictures and home videos of your dad’s masterpiece.
Sadly your situation happens a lot where a man builds up his hobby in the basement or barn and through time family members leave us and big changes happen and all that time and love put into a project get destroyed in an instant by people that have no interest. It's sad thinking about all that has been lost through time but while we're here make the best of it and pass on our knowledge and skills to our children. I've seen guys with multi million dollar setups in barns and large basements and wonder what will happen to all there scaled down worlds they've taken years to build when there gone.
Me, I've accumulated a hobby store in my house over the years and go through moods where I set-up a HO train set around Christmas and take it down after a bit and then setup a slot car track and play with grandkids then later in the year setup a 1/43 R/C racetrack and show the kids what it was like to race back in the day when I raced 1/12 scale but now I the privacy of my house and not a mall or commercial building.
Pure Genius!!! This could never fail in a lifetime, unless getting rusted. This conception is bulletproof. Reminds me a bit of how pinballs back in the days were put together. Quite a lot of similarities ! I love it!
I agree Reno. My circuits are as blue collar as circuits on a pinball game machine. But they are robust to say the least. Thanks for your comment. Please go back and share the video with your friends, and don't forget to subscribe my friend!
@@jimmyattard1446 Definitely 👍!
As a fellow 1:32 slot car junkie, the amount of resourcefulness, creativity, knowledge, and patience it took to make this track is simply mind blowing and cannot be understated. It's really impressive, especially considering he was cranking out features modern digital setups are only now bringing to market, 30yrs ago.
Digitial systems, the Carrera D1:32 system in particular simplifies all of this to a level unseen, and the aftermarket 3rd party support is growing everyday. I've even seen people strip Carrera features and place them in routed wood track.
The advantage that the AC2car system has is that, although we can only run two cars in one slot rather than 6, the Careers digital can only work with Carrrera cars. We can use any car from all manufacturers on this AC2car track. Please forward our track videos to your friends and family. Thanks for your comments my friend!
@@jimmyattard1446 I sincerely hope that my comment wasn’t seen as a critique.
All of the features of this layout are 30-40yrs ahead of their time, it’s a one of kind feat of engineering that simply will never be replicated with the advent of digital systems.
@@skizilla oh I took your comment to be very kind. I enjoyed your input and corresponding with you.
Skint... if you haven't already, go visit the other videos of the track on the Lunch King RUclips channel. And thanks for your comments my friend!
@@jimmyattard1446 what I DO need advice on is scenery. Did you bite the bullet and just go “O” gauge/scale figurines, or another route?
I’m having a heck of a time finding modern 2.25” figures. I’m thinking about spending the money and getting a 3D printer and calling it a day.
Also I’m local to Detroit as well, any good hobby shops still around?
The entire system is amazing! Thank you for the overview of the lane changing setup. I loved seeing the Ford GT40 #2 too. Just splendid. 👍😎🇦🇺
Glad you got something out of the video John. Stay tuned and share this video with others. Thanks for your comments my friend.
Really enjoy your videos. It amazes me to see the details and knowledge you have on your track. Thank you.
Well FFA, after playing with this hobby for 50 years it's easy to know enough to share my success and failures. Hope it increases your fun. Stay tuned and share this video with others. Thanks for your comments my friend.
Another awesome video. Love the how toos, so I lesson my mistakes. I would love to see Jim's car collection. I have around 200, most never ran. I have my favorites which I tend to run the most. Thanks again for sharing this wonderful hobby.
Wow 200 cars... I'm glad I'm not the only slot car addict Steve! Stay tuned and share this video with others. Thanks for your comments my friend.
Ohhhh fantastic
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Amazing System love watching these videos
Hopefully Jeff, it helped you understand how lane changing gave me a narrower roadway. The narrow track means more racing in a given space. Stay tuned and share this video with others. Thanks for your comments my friend.
Fascinating
Well Jay, after 38 years I too still find playing on my track fascinating. Thanks for the kind comment. Please go back and share the video with your friends, and don't forget to subscribe my friend.
i can watch this the whole day!
Thank you for your kind words my friend.
This is so interesting. I think my model railroad stuff brought me here, but I had simple slot cars from Tyco when I was a kid, and then there was one place that had, comparably, a much simpler slot car track in my home town of just over 12k people. It was fun, but wow this is crazy, in a good way.
It's nice to remember the fun you had as a kid, Andy. I guess building my track I never grew up. Please go back and share the video with your friends, and don't forget to subscribe my friend!
Amazing set-up! This is the ultimate scale racing system…. far beyond the Scalextric track that I have been playing since 1967.
Why thanks for the nice words Eddie. Go back and forward our videos to more of your friends because the guys plan to do more in the future.
Rigging up a controller "quick release" system with the alligator clips is BRILLIANT!
Guess the saying " necessity is the mother of all inventions " is 100% accurate here.
This is amazing! I am also 100% on board with the analog system. I think the digital system is not a real gain for the hobby. If I just think how often the very simple straight wiring inside the cars broke on me, I don't want to start to think how that would be with digital.
My brain also took of with how much easier it would be to make things like this with Mikrocontrollers being more easily available today. One could make a "sensing" lane changer.
Finally the only thing I think one looses with such a permanent design, is the variability. Every time I build my track which is more than 30m of standard carrera, I build a totally new track.
You made some good points Peter. But when you consider the length of a lap on my track is 150 feet, then if you change lanes into the slot cut for you on the opposite side of the track, you can drive 300ft before negotiating a turn the second time. That's a lot of track to run on. You won't tire of it here. Please go back and share the video with your friends, and don't forget to subscribe my friend!
What great fun and great ideas !!!
Thanks Mike. I do hope it increases your interest in maybe building a track of your own one day. Stay tuned and share this video with others. Thanks for your comments my friend.
@@jimmyattard1446 I would love a slot car track if I wasn't already doing model trains. I worked for 1 year at Celebrity Sports Center in Denver and they had four tacks (I think) and I spent all my money there.
Mike
Fascinating, THANK YOU !
Why you are welcome Robert. Hope you are involved in the hobby of scale racing. Stay tuned and share this video with others. Thanks for your comments my friend.
Jim … I’m a Postwar train guy , and you got my attention with Lionel power, low voltage AC. Ingenious my friend and simple too. Although there is nothing simple about your engineering and the tried and true testing to develop. Your modeling skills are terrific as well. Thanks for sharing. Most enjoyable.
Always great to hear Jim talk about his track. Whether it's the modeling aspect the hows of why it works or seeing those beautiful cars going around.
OK can probably find those car window circuit boards but where exactly do you shop for solenoids from torpedoes lol.
Be fun to see some racing or a walk through of his collection of cars. Both would be great videos to see.
Happy racing.
Thanks for the nice comments John. 30 years ago their where many Army and Navy surplus stores around. That's where I would buy some electronics and surplus wire for my track. Stay tuned and share this video with others. Thanks for your comments my friend.
Glom rights are a thing
This is bloody amazing. Wish I could see that in real life.
🤯Predigital lanechanger for analog slotcars?!
Very clever. A+. 👏👏👏👏👏
Wow A+ I never got that kinda grade in school, Dan! Thanks for your kind comment. Please go back and share the video with your friends, and don't forget to subscribe my friend.
What a masterpiece and a beautiful build too. Thanks for posting this as well. Have a nice day.
Why thanks Kurt. Not sure about a masterpiece but it is great fun for me. Go back and forward our videos to more of your friends because the guys plan to do more in the future.
Very impressive! Best working track ever
50年前の遊び！懐かしい。50年前日本で流行った。その頃学生だったお兄さんも80代世代だ。
Well sir thank you for your kind comment about my track and lane changing on it! Please go back and share the video with your friends, and don't forget to subscribe my friend!
Brilliant, Uncle Jim!!!! Thanks for sharing this!
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Unbelievable, absolute genius.
Thanks for your support Mick! See more 1/32 slot racing and tracks by subscribing to the Lunch King channel. Go back and share with your friends and family my friend.
Awesome track
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the switching is like a traction or trolly layout check out midwest modeler traction layout how he makes street car switches just like model railroading and switching operations
that is just super crazy track !!
Yes!!! Lane changing!!!
Glad this got you excited. Thank you for your kind words my friend.
Uncle Jim for President!
You made me smile Pea. Thanks for that. If you haven't subscribed please do. Please go back and forward it to your friends and family.
Lol
Do you have a booklet or guide to build a track like this not as large, but something similar to it with the same wiring specs great job on your design🥃
Wow! Absolutely amazing! So much engineering well put together! So cool! Thanks for sharing brother! Wish I could see and play with this race track in person! Merry Christmas!
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That is so awesome!
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Great to see a supper man showing his skills. On how to make it happen for everybody.great idea. Just wish I had the time..I have lots of cars and tracks that I need to start making up to race one day..
Thank you for your kind words my friend.
Cool Videos, & Really Cool Track & Engineering that went into building the Track! Thanks for Doing the Videos, I Enjoy them!
Thanks for your nice comments Dennis! Go back and forward our videos to more of your friends because the guys plan to do more in the future.
Very nice video, soothing, toys for adults...
Oh yes Audi.... my track is one big toy that guys love. Please go back and share the video with your friends, and don't forget to subscribe my friend.
This is outstanding!
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Great how the lane change works. Do they operate in the same way as a Carrera digital track?
No Steve. The switches are manually worked by the two drivers sharing the lane.
Thank you for this... great system
Thanks for the kind words Mike! I'd like to do more detail on how AC2car works for you. Go back and forward our videos to more of your friends because the guys plan to do more in the future.
"My friends call this the Fred Flinstone design but it has worked flawlessly for over 30 years". Ah, the spirit of my dad and my friends' dads growing up in metro Milwaukee in the 70s and 80s...
Nice and Thank you
Amazing. Fanastic. Really nice to see this. I've a carrera digita 132l and I've to say I like it alot... but your system that is 30years old looks more advanced :)
Wow Tugs, Its good to hear from someone like you who has enjoyed running more than one car in a slot. To say that my system maybe better, makes all the planning and testing I did worth it. Thank you for the nice comment. Stay tuned and share this video with other friends. Thanks for your nice words my friend.
Wow ! So groovy and innovative .......!
Thank you
From my racing days.
The flag means:
"there's a race going on and you're not in it."
Do you get the sparks in between contact shoes and track when the car moves really fast on the track ?
No we get no sparks, probably because we run on ac current instead of dc.
jimmy is a treasure
Thank you for your kind words my friend.
That is amazing
Awesome 👌🏻
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I've watched a couple of the other videos about this track. Great design and way before it's time with multiple cars in a lane and lane changing. I will say making a car digital is more than the 7cents you indicate here. I'm wondering if you install the diode can the car be run on a standard dc track?
Yes Phil, the direction the diode is soldered into the cars wiring makes it either an A car or a B car. A cars can run on any other non A2car tracks. Please go back and forward our track videos to your friends and family. Thanks for your comments my friend!
Uncle jimmy is a badass,, god i wish i was related
That’s a massive undertaking but results are worth it. Would another alternative be used instead of plunger using a servo
Yes Wildcard, there are many ideas that could be used, and have been used, to create a lane changer. I even saw a guy build a track where you simply pull a string and it actuated his lane changer. Go back and forward our videos to more of your friends because the guys plan to do more in the future.
Great video. Videos about the cars next! Thanks
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I wire and work on machinery
Man i have lots of ideas. This is a great build
Thank you
So damn cool!
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Sounds spicy!
so much fun, so interesting what you created... be cool to race on it
Rob it was as much fun building it as it is racing on it! Go back and forward our videos to more of your friends because the guys plan to do more in the future.
Great design on the lane change! How does the controller still provide power to the correct car after a lane change?
Genifer please go back to the Lunch King channel and see the documentary where I explain how using an AC transformer rather than a DC allows the AC2car system to run two cars in the same slot. Please forward our track videos to your friends and family. Thanks for your comments my friend!
@@jimmyattard1446 thank you. I scrolled through and do not see the video about the AC Transformer.
Genifer go to the long or short documentary. Half way through it I talk about how I get two cars running in the same slot using a Lionel toy train transformer. Which is an AC power supply. Keep trying my friend.
Is there only the one place to change lanes? -and- when a car goes off the track (say one of six cars racing), how do you know which slot the car is supposed to be in? Thank you. Awesome track!
Neil, there is only one place on the track where in 150 feet of racing that cars can change lanes. The lane changing happens after all cars are forced to cue up in single file to go around the tight hairpin turn. If you do nothing your car stays racing on the left hand side of the track. If you hold the lane change button down as you go thru the hairpin, your car will be directed to its slot on the right hand side of the track. The fact that all 8 cars come thru nose to tail cars won't knock each other off when they switch sides of the track. Though the lap is 150 ft long if you include a second lap on the opposite side of the track than you'll experience 300 feet of racing before going over the same track again.
Top Rate
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So cool
I'm sorry how long does the strip last for the thing that use power the cars up with how long does that last for I'm just curious I don't know anything about it I'm sorry if I say I'm sorry if I sound goofy but I don't know if you can answer that question one of these days I'll be happy to listen to it thank you
Walleye please clearify your questions and I will be happy to try to answer them.
very very nice! what type or brand do you recommend starting out
Mark a simple Scalextric track can give you lots of fun....but building your own wood track to race them on would give the ultimate enjoyment. Go back and forward our videos to more of your friends because the guys plan to do more in the future.
@@jimmyattard1446 thanks for the info
Makes me wish I was a friend that could come over to play.
Sure TWG... I wish you lived close to Dearborn Michigan. You'd get an invite for sure for your nice comment. Go back and forward our videos to more of your friends because the guys plan to do more in the future.
@@jimmyattard1446 That's very nice. I'm in Colombia, South America. Maybe I can blow some of those air-miles I've accrued?
Here they would just want to go FAST and not appreciate the intricacies of what you've done. I bought my kid a slot car track for X-mas and it was such a disappointment. I'm thinking of starting simple, creating a round track with lane switching. Parts and materials like you use are so hard (if not impossible) to find here.
I’m sharing your how-to’s on an HO slot car building FB page. Lotta love & likes on them. Many build their own track.
Do you accept ‘tours’ or visits from fans? I live in MISSOURi, but from Pontiac originally. My Mom & sister still there and I visit once a year.
Would love to see this!
Thank you for spreading the word! I’m not sure about visitors, I’ll ask jimmy the next time I see him!
Thank you! There is a whole lot of us baby boomers that are getting into this hobby now. I retired just a couple years ago and I believe I’m the same age as Jimmy so I can relate!
i want my basement to look like that one day.
Just be diligent and focused Yohan and you can build a track like mine too. Please go back and share the video with your friends, and don't forget to subscribe my friend!
Buddy I have got to give it to you I would love to have it to play with my Grand Son. My brother and I loved the one we had. I will send him the only car I found from it ,he will love it.
Mark, I am amazed at how many guys like you have commented with good memories that our LK slotcar track videos have brought them. Stay tuned and share this video with other friends. Thanks for your comments my friend.
Aha, found it! Very clever system. How is control of a car maintained by the 'driver' after the lane change, since on a regular analog track, if a car skips lanes, it becomes a rider. The original 'driver' and that controller no longer control the car in a typical analog system.
Good question WB. You have to understand that each lane that you run your car in has a second slot cut into the track for it to go around on the outside of the roadway. If you do nothing at the lane change area your car stays in the slot cut for it on the LH side of the track. If you push the lane change button your car gets funneled into its "passing lane" cut for it all the way around the RH side of the track. So you are not a rider because you are still in your lane controlled by you. See more 1/32 slot racing and tracks by subscribing to the Lunch King channel. Go back and share with your friends and family my friend.
@@jimmyattard1446 Thank you for that explanation! So basically each car has a choice of two slots. LH or RH. How is your track able to take 8 cars with only 7 slots? Fantastic track by the way!
@@cuddlestsheep5863 thanks again for your kind support CS. Please go back and see the two documentary segments early in Lunch King segments about my track. Half way through I explain that because my son was 5 I cut lane for right down the middle of the track with no lane changing at the hairpin. It did not get a second slot around the track. Glad you found my work interesting.
Ithank you for posting video and sharing everything about your track I got a few great ideas from you on how to improve the tracks I got and the lane change thing you built I did that to my 1)24 scale slot track as soon as I got it my 1/24 track is almost same size of yours just 26 feet of more track length . I got a big 9 lane analog old school commercial built 1/24 scale track in my 4 car shop with a 6 lane giant ho scale track and the 2/24 9 lane is modeled after Daytona type layout you can run oval and by switching three track pieces easily you run the road course infield that uses same sections of oval as Daytona. And my ho layout 6 lane is a road course and my other ho layout is a dirt oval where we run dirt mods late models sprint cars street stocks and mega g plus nascar's and nascar camping world truckbseries I airbrushed the track to look like a dirt track as well and looks really good and on the floor on other side I got a 40ft by 30ft false floor with crc rc racing carpet and 2/24 scale walls to race road course and oval 1/24 scale and even smaller like the 1rc cars and we run the mini z cars mostly and have jumps made to run the mini losi and any 1/24 scale short course or stadium truck. I have 20 ppl that show up to race each track every race night for what ever track we running. We run points series for every track only so your points from every class of racing on that track all adds up for the points championship. we put 20 dollars down every race for the points fund. So the top 3 in points for each track will win money and a nice trophy our points series runs every 4 months every other weekend we run every class and have a month break and do it all over. To make it cheap on my friends and ppl who come to race the ho scale tracks I have cars that are competitive and setup equal for every class and 40 cars for every ho class we run and each person picks two cars for each class that they wanna use for whole season. Now with the 1)24 scale slot car track I only have like 5 cars for each of tyhe three classes we run so guys don't have to buy a bunch of cars to play but when it comes to the rc track I have two cars for each class that ppl can use as back up only. Also on my commercial 1/24 slot track I added buttons three of them Infront of each controller area one activates my 15 different lane change areas on the oval and what ever lane changer the car is gonna hit next you hold button down and when car shoe strikes it activates only when car goes over it and works very effective I used some rc plane servos at first they worked but not great and we t to solonoids and relays. And on road course layout I got 10 lane change areas. the racing looks so realistic and amazing with all the passing on oval when we got the modern cup cars going with brass scratch built chassis and modern 2022 nascar 1)24 scale model kits it looks like a legit nascar race I got a bump draft protypr design in the works where you get close to another car Infront of you and voltage boost will activate and you can bump draft or bump to move guy out of way to pass or bump draft to get a bigger lead gap on rest of field. I got it working but still trying to get it to work quickly and reliably. I got it working where you push a button and it gives your car a quick boost of power to pass on oval and have it setup to only 5 times for each car during whole race and I got it almost to where it works reliably only when your a certain distance from car Infront of you for bump drafting effect and unlimited amount of times and you can just hold button down as long you want on oval. And I got a real working scale size jumbo screen that has live video of the race up close like you would see at Daytona in person cause you cant see whole track so you see it on jumbo screens
That's amazing YKE ! A real slotcar addict for sure. Glad you are having fun with it. Go back and forward our videos to more of your friends because the guys plan to do more in the future.
Thanks!
You are so welcome Farm Cat! Please go back and forward our track videos to your friends and family. Thanks for your comments my friend!
Holy crap.
Well thanks for your nice comment Jag. Please go back and share the video with your friends, and don't forget to subscribe my friend!
@@jimmyattard1446 the work involved. WOW.
How many cars can run together?
A total of 8 cars can run on the track at the same time! Our lane changing video has more on that! Thank you for watching!
My question is you have two cars on the same lane,I’ve have slot cars from the mid 70’s AFX and you could only have one car in each lane
Kevin go to the Lunch King channel and watch the documentary. There I explain the AC2car system I developed allowing two cars to share a slot using AC power rather than DC. Please go back and forward our track videos to your friends and family. Thanks for your comments my friend!
If you are in lane 1 and switch to lane 2, how do you get back to lane 1. Those switches only let you go straight or turn one way, not two ways.
Correct Danny! If you do nothing your car will always ride in your slot on the left hand side of the road. When you hold the lane change button down as you negotiate the hairpin, then your car is directed to its second slot cut for it on the right hand side of the road. Please go back and share the video with your friends, and don't forget to subscribe my friend!
New sub! Liked 🙏🚀🙏👍
Why is there no analog box track sets with lane changing system like this for blanket compatibility amongst all cars ?
Rodney my AC2car system may not run 20 cars but we run 8 cars on 4 lanes, with absolutely any make of slotcar and. 17 cent diode. I'll do a deeper explanation someday on the system itself. Go back and forward our videos to more of your friends because the guys plan to do more in the future.
#GURU!
Yes M1000 RR, I would very much like to be know to be one willing to teach others the joy of building your own track. Please go back and share the video with your friends, and don't forget to subscribe my friend!
How long did it take to built it?
James it took 2 to 3 years to build the track....but of course I had a wife and 3 sons to care for nineteen routing slots. Go back to LK sight on You Tube to see more and forward our videos to more of your friends because the guys plan to do more in the future.
So you guys create YOUR OWN track?? Any DIY vids for that??? :-D
It's suggested at the side lol !
How do you count laps?
B Breeze, good question. My Electrical engineer son has been working on a lap counter for 8 years. I've had all the wiring set up for it for many years now. Oh well. Please go back and share the video with your friends, and don't forget to subscribe my friend.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but is this track limited to 2 cars at a time?
correct - up to 8 cars can run at the same race , there are some race videos showing all 8 racing - thank you
Could the same system be done for a H O scale track !!! 👍🚗
Sure John, why not. It certainly would make for a small fine lane changer but it could be done...and a ton of fun too. Go back and forward our videos to more of your friends because the guys plan to do more in the future.
What keeps you from sending someone on the same track into the pits during a race?
Michiana, nothing but common sense would keep someone sharing a lane from doing that. However that has never ever happened here. If it did it had better be an accident or that driver will never drive here again. Please go back and forward the video to your friends and don't forget to subscribe to the Lunch King channel my friend!
@@jimmyattard1446 Jimmy, I suppose that's the same thing with Lane changing? Say car B is following car A closely in one of their respective slots, and car A engaged the lane changer. Doesn't car B then also change lanes without ever having pressed the button, if following close enough and car A not releasing the button basically instantly?
Has anyone ever documented this such that the result was a wiring diagram?
Terrible electrical installation. Outwardly beautiful and functional
Well Oleg I tried my best to make my circuits as simple and clean as I could for fear that I would need to do repairs. But thankfully after 36 years of running I've never had to repair a single circuit! I must have done something right. Please go back and share the video with your friends, and don't forget to subscribe my friend!
If they were to make a track that was duplex several different layers put a camera in the front of the car and drive the car from the first person view my father made a train set model of our city on the Ohio River has been duplexed he bought his first car with it the model my father made looked a lot like the one you see in Beetlejuice although my father's model train set up Avatar of our city was not duplexed the one you see in Fred Rogers Mr Rogers Show our city in Cincinnati looks identical that particular model is duplexed
Thanks for your comments Mark. We did put a camera on a car. You can view it along with other videos on the Lunch King channel. Please go back and share the video with your friends, and don't forget to subscribe my friend.
@@jimmyattard1446 thank you for doing this I need to set up a security system on my truck because the police have attacked before and they need to stop doing this because they work for us and I care for them and we need them but we need to know what the right and wrong things are to do I think we need citizen review boards that was Alexis de tocqueville's suggestion his book Democracy in America
How much does his wife drink now ?
She rarely comes down stairs Jay. Blessed to have the whole basement to myself. Of course I've busted my behind on the rest of the house for her. Please go back and share the video with your friends, and don't forget to subscribe my friend!
Ryan, I have to say, you are beefy hotalicious, omg
Yes Ben...see more of Ryan on his Lunch King channel. Please go back and share the video with your friends, and don't forget to subscribe my friend.
Carrara has a chip so cars do not run into each other at switches.