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thanks Roberto to be honest the final track depends on what I win on the bid-bay its a carrera go and i hope to have 2 drivers position it was only going to be 3X7 but I thought why cut up good plywood so its now 4X8 im going with landscape and other goodies

Quote: Glad you're hard at it again! Did you cash in on the 3FER nascar thing? we did Get pictures when you can watchin' you is fun yea i did get 3, and soon to get another 3 as well in a lil bit here. so yesterday was a big day, did open heart surgery to the table and put in black foam board for parking lot areas pits, ect. man it hurt to tear up 3 feet of grass mat but it had to be done. we put the first base coat of paint on the...

One quirk of Carrera is that the extra curves only come in boxes of 180 total degrees (a full semicircle of track), unless you can find someone to sell individual pieces. It's expensive to buy multiple boxes of Carrera curve sizes just to experiment without starting with a plan that can make good use of all the pieces. It's different with Scalextric, because you can buy just two pieces of any curve size for $10.

Quote: Originally Posted by TransIssues Yes, if the cable is fed into a pulley that has "sides." If more cable is pulled onto a pulley, the diameter of that pulley is now greater than the others, and will pull more cable per revolution of the pulley. Cheers! Paul On the right side I have 2 pulleys and on the left side of the table I have 4. They are all The same size Though. I had to double back because of space. Quote:...

Nice work on the borders and signs, really adds Your room has got potential too, watch out if this guy decides to expand Please keep us up-to-date.

Yes and also the Tru-Flex system..also done in the60s...but neither of them seem to be availble now..But in this thread, we seem to have reached the conclusion that it could to done today...Practial? Probably not...but thinking outside the box is good thing now and then...

Nicely done, also like the fact of getting the boys involved. Got to start them early. How has the rest of the track coming, scenery and all. How did the guardrails turn out and do they work? later Paulie

It is my experience that photo sharing sites that automatically shrink pictures also reduce their quality. There is photo editing software built into Windows. The Paint program that is in Start, Programs, Accessories can be used to re-size pictures. Just select Image, Stretch and Skew, then enter the same percentage for both horizontal and vertical. When the image is the size that you want hit File, Save as and enter a new file name to save...

Quote: Originally Posted by urbanwarrior Actually we do have 2 crossovers, that we are getting rid of because the realistic nature of them isn't there. My partner, carbon9, found several braids that had fallen off of the cars and had gotten lodged in a spot under the track where they were actually touching both tracks and shorting it out! Stay tuned to see if it works and hats off to carbon9 for finding something so obscure. That glitch...

very nice! keep at it! -- rakete --