Any other members stuck in their youth??!! lol

[Richard Fox]

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Love it....I tried my luck on one of the grand kids hoverboard... never again

Thats bl**dy awesome @LeStempy!
Know the feeling @ChunkyDave tried my son's and nearly ended up on my ..... he made it looks so easy!!!

 

[Highway Dave]

I still cut holes in my trousers pockets if that counts
You might need to think about it a little lol

 

[Richard Fox]

This is insane!

 

[Lize]

A while ago my friend picked me up a small oval Scalextric set for £10. I assembled it in the lounge and the cats loved it. I moved it into the hall and decided I could expand. I got a load of assorted second hand track and by chance used every piece to go round the perimeter of the hall.

Then I decided I could encroach further into the hall and got another job lot of track with some crossroads. At the same time I also went digital - just changed to the more modern power base with some new to old style track pieces. I don't have pit lanes and really only use it for the pace car feature.

With the last expansion it turned into a huge job to get it running well - track cleaning, adding copper between joints for continuity and wire taps for uniform power through the entire length.

I ran into a few problems:

• Colin (the cat) runs after the cars along the track which stresses the joints
• Mopping the floor created a large task of fiddling with the track afterwards
• I had no borders so the cars tended to drop a wheel off the track when drifting on a corner and crash

This was all cured by hot glueing the track down in long sections and adding a second surrounding layer of foam core board at track level. This took an age to do involving 25 A1 sheets of foam core board, about 40 Stanley knife blades and just short of 250 hot glue sticks.

The hall is a bit like walking on stepping stones but I've left major through fares as clear as possible and I soon got used to it. I don't have a wife to moan about it and the end result is great fun .

Standard straight (350mm) = 26
Powerbase = 1
Half straight converters = 2
Half straight = 10
Chicane (same length as standard straight) = 5
Standard 45 curve = 52
Hairpin 90 curve = 4
Inner curve 45 = 2
Right angle crossing = 2



Difficult to get a decent photo but his gives the idea, please ignore the fact that I still haven't decorated and its mid prep with sanded woodwork.


A couple of photos of Colin pre expansion when it just went round the perimeter:



I'll be moving in a year or so and will probably sell the track and make routed MDF sections.

 

[Griff]

I don't have a wife

I don’t think I would for long, if I tried doing that in the house

Looks ace though