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For a couple of years now I wanted to make a wooden track. I first experimenten a lot with a 12 metre one lane rallytrack and when I was satisfied with how everything worked, I decided it was time to replace my 30 metre Scalextric track with a wooden setup!
Somewhere in May of 2008 I began with a design and now, 10 months later, the track is almost finished. I did not work on it every weekend, there were some pauses, so that is why it took me longer that normal.
My goal was not to build a scenery track. While I love those beautiful tracks, I do not have the patience to build one myself. I prefer racing with a couple of friends
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So I decided to make a clean, practical racing setup. I decided on a three lane track with a couple of squeezes. At first I wanted to make every corner "squeezed", just like in real world racing, but I decided that it would not be a nice track to do some battles on, since we would be constantly putting our deslotted cars back in the slot. I also wanted to have something that would keep the cars on the table after a deslot and I would want something to prevent a view below the table, so I could use that as storage space (and did not have to invest that much time in a good looking construction
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Since I have very good experience with copper tape and since I wanted a non-magnetic track, copper tape became my choice. I bought the roller thingy from the guys from Old Slotracer (great help!!) to put down the 190 metres of tape. My track is painted with blackboard paint (the kind you can write on with chalk). It gives me perfect grip: not too much (bumpy cars), but enough. You do need to keep the track clean from dust, cause that will deminish the grip. But it drivers perfectly, IMHO.
The track is as good as finished. Time sensors still need to be installed, but the light bridge (LED operated) is already fucntional.
Here are some pictures of the current state of the track.
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I still need to clean up the room and finish the timing electronics. Timing will ofcourse be with Slot Race Manager 2!
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Here is the complete photo link!
Somewhere in May of 2008 I began with a design and now, 10 months later, the track is almost finished. I did not work on it every weekend, there were some pauses, so that is why it took me longer that normal.
My goal was not to build a scenery track. While I love those beautiful tracks, I do not have the patience to build one myself. I prefer racing with a couple of friends
So I decided to make a clean, practical racing setup. I decided on a three lane track with a couple of squeezes. At first I wanted to make every corner "squeezed", just like in real world racing, but I decided that it would not be a nice track to do some battles on, since we would be constantly putting our deslotted cars back in the slot. I also wanted to have something that would keep the cars on the table after a deslot and I would want something to prevent a view below the table, so I could use that as storage space (and did not have to invest that much time in a good looking construction
Since I have very good experience with copper tape and since I wanted a non-magnetic track, copper tape became my choice. I bought the roller thingy from the guys from Old Slotracer (great help!!) to put down the 190 metres of tape. My track is painted with blackboard paint (the kind you can write on with chalk). It gives me perfect grip: not too much (bumpy cars), but enough. You do need to keep the track clean from dust, cause that will deminish the grip. But it drivers perfectly, IMHO.
The track is as good as finished. Time sensors still need to be installed, but the light bridge (LED operated) is already fucntional.
Here are some pictures of the current state of the track.
I still need to clean up the room and finish the timing electronics. Timing will ofcourse be with Slot Race Manager 2!
Here is the complete photo link!
