Car and Track Notes

I did an extensive wipedown of my track a little bit ago due to all the dust the bathroom installers have spread around. I've needed to do it quite a bit to get it not to slip. As I was doing this I noticed that I was starting to get some rubber laid on the track. It's faint, but it's there and started.

It's not very easy to get a picture of, and it's almost more noticeable when it's not looked at directly. Anyhow, it's there and that's pretty cool.

For a long time I was running urethane over rubber by about 2:1. And that's not including casual running, which I almost always ran one of the cars with the Paul Gage urethane tires. So I never got any rubber laid down because most of the time it wasn't rubber that was running on the track.

When I got the Porsche and the Ford GTII, instead of ordering a bunch of different urethane tires, I decided to put away the Paul Gage urethane tires that two of the cars were using and put all of the cars on the factory C1 rubber that they came with. Since then, nothing but rubber has been running on the track.

This one is a bit easier to see. Entrance to Turn 1, coming from left to right. The rubber pattern shows that the cars have a tendency to swing out quite a bit, going as far as over the painted-over stripe in the middle, turning it dark gray. 

This is only after a couple of weeks of running nothing but rubber on the track. Since I'll be sticking with rubber and even buying more eventually when I need replacements [including to the Carreras], I expect this to get significantly darker.

Poor guy has been doing the bulk of the running while I'm cleaning. I'll have to do a thorough cleaning of all the cars once this construction is done.

I took the top off the Porsche to see if it was collecting dust inside and it wasn't. I put it on the track with just the chassis and ran a couple of laps. I ended up with quite a flashback to my youth, when my brother and I would race AFX HO cars. We'd always end up without any bodies, racing just the chassis. I don't have that feeling now, but it's funny to have that memory. Weird how stuff like that happens.

Smooth runner.

The Ford GTII is the most recent production car I own from Slot.it.

The car coming on Monday is even newer. 

I can't wait.