I think I've either mis-read something, or mis-understood it. This is my understanding as it stands:-
Silicon tyres leave deposits on the track and rubber tyres won't grip as effectively. Therefore if you're going to run silicon, all cars used on the track have to have silicon or they'll be off at every turn.
Urethane tyres grip in a similar fashion to silicon, but they don't leave slippery deposits so running them doesn't cause problems for rubber-shod cars.
As the above is what I understood, I binned my silicon tyres, cleaned the track and bought urethane.
Recently I've been having a problem with my SCX Porsche, and to a lesser extent the SCX Morgan as well. The standard tyres have been picking up deposits after less than 20 laps and need very regular cleaning - a 30+ lap race is a waste of time as beyond that the car will go off more and more until the tyres are cleaned.
I've got 2 new (to me) cars that have NSR Supergrip tyres and don't suffer the problem I'm trying to describe.
Today, I cleaned the track again and ran the SCX cars before any of the others. 50 laps and the tyres barely needed cleaning. I then ran the cars that have the Supergrips on for a while. I did the gaffer tape trick on the SCX cars and ran them again. Same scenario, 50 laps and hardly a speck on the tyres. Then I ran the cars with the urethanes on.......................
After that, I ran the SCX cars again and, you guessed it, 20 laps and they're all over the track and there's bits all over the tyres.
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Now I've decided to bin the urethanes, it's occurred to me that maybe they're not suited to my mixture of Sport and classic track. So, which tyres do you all recommend me to use on my track??? The Supergrips seem fairly good, as do the SCX ones. I've got another 3 Scalextric cars of varying ages all with what look to be the original tyres on and these tyres have seen better days so I'm looking to replace them. But what with???
TIA
Stuart.
Silicon tyres leave deposits on the track and rubber tyres won't grip as effectively. Therefore if you're going to run silicon, all cars used on the track have to have silicon or they'll be off at every turn.
Urethane tyres grip in a similar fashion to silicon, but they don't leave slippery deposits so running them doesn't cause problems for rubber-shod cars.
As the above is what I understood, I binned my silicon tyres, cleaned the track and bought urethane.
Recently I've been having a problem with my SCX Porsche, and to a lesser extent the SCX Morgan as well. The standard tyres have been picking up deposits after less than 20 laps and need very regular cleaning - a 30+ lap race is a waste of time as beyond that the car will go off more and more until the tyres are cleaned.
I've got 2 new (to me) cars that have NSR Supergrip tyres and don't suffer the problem I'm trying to describe.
Today, I cleaned the track again and ran the SCX cars before any of the others. 50 laps and the tyres barely needed cleaning. I then ran the cars that have the Supergrips on for a while. I did the gaffer tape trick on the SCX cars and ran them again. Same scenario, 50 laps and hardly a speck on the tyres. Then I ran the cars with the urethanes on.......................
After that, I ran the SCX cars again and, you guessed it, 20 laps and they're all over the track and there's bits all over the tyres.
Now I've decided to bin the urethanes, it's occurred to me that maybe they're not suited to my mixture of Sport and classic track. So, which tyres do you all recommend me to use on my track??? The Supergrips seem fairly good, as do the SCX ones. I've got another 3 Scalextric cars of varying ages all with what look to be the original tyres on and these tyres have seen better days so I'm looking to replace them. But what with???
TIA
Stuart.
