Secrets of Slot Car Racing #7 - Rescue vintage Aurora Thunder Jet slot cars
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- Опубликовано: 7 дек 2023
- Thi is a brief review of how I revive vintage Aurora Thunder Jet HO slot cars. I do not restore them but try to quickly get them running. A quick cleaning, including polishing the armature commutator, installing new brushes and proper lubrication especially with the right “red” oil for the motor shaft.
When I was about 10 years old, the nice guy at the hobby shop showed me how to do all of this. I miss hobby shops!
There a few around and we need to buy our stuff from them when possible.
nice video! thanks for the share!
Circa 1965 I would modify a thunder. Jet chassis into a 4 wheel drive ! Just splice two gear trains together and flop second crown gear over...really raced FAST !!
I bet that really helped make it run better because I always needed more traction. I tried that but never had glue strong enough to hold the top plate together.
I will take the tube of polish and with just a little dab sticking out of the tube, I put the tube right on the armature commutator. This leaves a nice circular spot of polish. I use a cloth (I’ve even used a paper towel) and rub off the polish. I repeat until I get a shine. It make take two or three applications; one car in this batch took ten times to get it clean.
It won’t matter exactly how you do it.
Just smear a thin coating and rub it off.
Can you please explain exactly how you polish the commutator with the simichrome polish? Thank you
Those are totally restorable.
Absolutely they are restorable. At this point I’m just looking for running chassis. Often I keep about half & sell off the ones I won’t use.
Personally, I'd be think able I'd be able to restore a number of those bodies back to factory minty-freshness-ness. I'm up for the challenge.
@jeffryan What’s your email?
I know you could do it.@@JeffRyan
@@jettafixer7 do tell.