everybody of you knowing me from slotracing knows my affinity for realistic scale looks - scenery and cars. Now, planning a garden track 1/24scale it would be great
1. to allow bigger cars for big garden track
2. to allow scale looks for the cars.
Playing arround with the future design of the track I just wanted to find out if the MagRacing-sytem could be used for 1/24 without bigger changes. Possible problems might be
1. higher weight
2. too much grip of tyres (first time in my life I start thinking about how to reduce grip
)3. batterycapacity when using bigger motor (to compensate weight)
4. choice of magnets (steering/linechange, steering-compensation)
No answers for these questions without trying: Here we go.
A new chassis for a Ferrari 512S Berlinetta:
Try to build it from Plasticard, PVC availible in different thickness. First try to be simple and fast, just to tryout. 2mm should be stable enough.
Bumper mounted, batterycompartment sawn out. Chosen 2 batterys: parallel circuit; still 3.8V but 1600mAh then. Hopefully compensates the needs of bigger engine.
Frame for batterycompartment:
Note centerline as a base for all other measuring and mounting. 'S' is the level for the sensor, 'FA' is location of the frontaxle, 'RA' is location of the rear axle. Batterycompartment closed with cap. Grey area to be the place for the electronics later. Hole for sensor drilled.
Bodymount in the rear of the car and engine (for now loosely fit in). This size of motor is availible in different voltage and speeds of rotation. Gear and rear axle as well as weels are the from the original car (for now). The washer on the photo needed due to heightdifference between chassis and body
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Fitted into the body - worked fine so far:
Beginning to construct the steering, nothing new, just a cheap copy of Wes' great steering.
What do you think? Could it work? Worth the effort? Any ideas? Any thoughts? Would love to hear about your opinion.
More to follow soon. Thanks for watching. Regards Jens
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