Any Model Railway, scalectric enthusiasts in the forum?

[rustic]

My son is a bit of a railway modeller, and he has asked me to service some of his locos, but a friend recommended this site for copies of service and part numbers, for new locos and going back to the 60's. Also scalectric slot cars too.

So if any of you are interested?

http://www.lendonsmodelshop.co.uk

Hope it helps,
Rustic

[Lazy-Ferret]

Handy... I am just starting out with an American N gauge layout after a break of too many years.

[Banshee]

Hell yes!!!! I love Scalextric, I have 2 Defender 90's that have been converted to run on it and both have ifor williams cattle trailers on :D

I'll post some pics later

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[makeitfit]

I have miles of Scalextric , started buying it for my son as soon as he was born. He's nearly old enough to have a go now :lol (he's 22 now :roflol:)

[panelbeater]

oh to be back in the late 60s.late 50s were trains and ran a big set up in loft going between next door and mine.great fun.
got older and moved then it was model plains little glow plugs or derv ones wired and remote.
then i moved on to cars starting with scale but progressed to track places and built from scratch down to winding my own little electric motors.
in 1968 clacton had a track 24hr race and my car won it,4 drivers and most laps won.
then a return match was held at westcliff and i/we came second.
i used to build the chassis from brazing rod.the armature wire was pure silver.
all good fun.
now its computers.

[macabethiel]

Back in the late 1960's I had a basic Scalextric set and over the next 5 years kept on buying second hand bits of track and finally built myself a huge circuit with an 18 foot straight that we called the Mulssane Straight with the remainder consisting of bends and a couple of chicanes. I had to buy a bigger transformer to keep the voltage up on the circuit.

I modded my Mercedes racer with twin wheeled axles. When I was working in Germany bought a Ford Mustang slot racer that was a slightly larger scale that had a much better pick up design with built in suspension. Outcome was that the Mustang could be gunned down the straight and would corner almost flat out on the inside bends with the tail out knocking competitors (my Dad or Brother) off the track with a blip of the throttle.

When I got married our house was not big enough to take all the track so ended up in the loft, then when my Daughter arrived it was all sold just before Christmas 1975 to buy some girls stuff !

Never had the dosh when I was young to get into Model Railways - now don't think I would get outlying planning consent from she who must be obeyed.lol

[Lazy-Ferret]

I was lucky enough to live near the Scalextric factory in Westwood, near Margate and a local farmer paid their skip driver to drop the skip in his chalk pit near Monkton. every 2 weeks, we would get down there and raid the skip and try not to get caught.

I had spare tyres, brushes, motors and axles by the tonne, and we would hit lucky when they had a production problem. One time the crazing on the lap counter track did not mould properly, so the skip was full of the hard plastic half length straights. We had so many that we would run the track round my front garden, out the front gate, up the pavement, and into my mates front garden 3 doors up. There was not enough power when it got to his house, so two of us controlled the cars round our garden, then 2 others controlled the cars from a separate power supply at his house. Knowing what I know now, I never realised at the time just how dangerous this was to do, but we got away with it.

Often the plastic would not run properly into the mould, and there would be a load of Mini or Ford Escort bodies with only part of the roof. We turned them into convertibles.

We had so much stuff we could get a bit carried away, for example, if you run the track up the stairs, and put a skid chicane part the way up, covered in vasaline, the car tyres would actually start smoking as you tried to get across it. We used to build hill racing cars to try and negotiate all the obstacles we would put on the track. We even had a 4 wheel drive stretch Escort....

[Banshee]

I was lucky enough to live near the Scalextric factory in Westwood, near Margate and a local farmer paid their skip driver to drop the skip in his chalk pit near Monkton. every 2 weeks, we would get down there and raid the skip and try not to get caught.

I had spare tyres, brushes, motors and axles by the tonne, and we would hit lucky when they had a production problem. One time the crazing on the lap counter track did not mould properly, so the skip was full of the hard plastic half length straights. We had so many that we would run the track round my front garden, out the front gate, up the pavement, and into my mates front garden 3 doors up. There was not enough power when it got to his house, so two of us controlled the cars round our garden, then 2 others controlled the cars from a separate power supply at his house. Knowing what I know now, I never realised at the time just how dangerous this was to do, but we got away with it.

Often the plastic would not run properly into the mould, and there would be a load of Mini or Ford Escort bodies with only part of the roof. We turned them into convertibles.

We had so much stuff we could get a bit carried away, for example, if you run the track up the stairs, and put a skid chicane part the way up, covered in vasaline, the car tyres would actually start smoking as you tried to get across it. We used to build hill racing cars to try and negotiate all the obstacles we would put on the track. We even had a 4 wheel drive stretch Escort....

Smiling ear to ear reading that :naughty

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