Good tutorial on track management and maintenance. The modular aspect of your setup is perfect and should be something that I will do with my track when I do a more permanent setup. Thanks for sharing your building process 👍
Dave you are brilliant for finding the problem with the rails I have a complete turn of these #4 curves think like 12 in a row and have had so many problems car would just sputter and some times stop. I would clean them tried all sorts of different braids nothing worked , thank you for posting this you are a shining light very special indeed sending you a great big hug from northern california thank you again ....Ramona
Nice rail fix. Now that I know you can safely pop out the rails like that, I am armed and dangerous. Terrific video, Dave. And what a nice sudsy clean layout. 🎉
Ha ha I knew you would find some parts and stuff! I recall my carrera track had a couple sections like that and I think the machine that pressed the rails in sometimes buggers them up. When I always put up a track even with new track or when taking track apart and putting it back together I use a exacto knife and slightly bend the female side of the rails sides in a bit so that they scrape harder to the male side when it gets slid into it and this makes it have much better electrical conductivity. Nice job all clean and everything's working great again!
Hello Dave. I was wondering before you took it apart, how much dust and rubber you would assemble through the cleaning process. I was astonished how much came togehter there. Now think of ll the fine dust , which is in your surrounding air then. Some might say now, what fine dust? Well, it is not a cesret, that fine dust is in all of our air outside in the cityies and also in the country, due to the winds blowing it all ove the countries. There was a research done last year here in Germany, where the investigated the fine dust and where it all went, due to the rubber grinded off in traffic. It showed, that those small fine dusts had layed down into field salad in the fields, outside the cities for instance. It also grew into the plants itself, because the earth was contminated with the dust. Now think of all the fien dust we inhale each and every day. I am not talking about our tracks only. I mean outside in the nature and the city. I live on a public street, where there is a lot of traffic each and every day, the dust that collects in my appartment is a menace and I sometines think, I must be static magnet for all that dust comming in. The whole universe is comming in here. lol No honestly, those Silicon`s and PU`s -Tires are doing that in small amounts, too. But they do. But, we do breath it in. It won`t kill us, but the amount makes the poison. Inside and outside our places, we are contaminated to it and to me it is all Chemistry. going in circles Just like the expanding and shrinking rails, plus the dust collected inbetween the small gaps there. I weasn`t aware of the R4 curves having this issue. So I learned something today and it prooves to me, that Carreras cheap poduction faults add up onec more here. You had a good point at one of your last clips, mentioning the odd quality by Carrera and the better Polycar and Scaleauto tracks. That is a point to think over. I choosed Carrera again for my tack-system and I learned a lot about the pros and cons the recent two years. I was blinded by the good old Carrera stuff we had decades ago and how it changed when Carrea was sold to the Austrian Co. , which is now combined under the roof of Revell. To me, these two companies care about selling more than quality. That is a fact, that should not be ignored. 😎 Good content, Brother. Keep it comming and more of that Jazz! 😉
Another informative vid Dave, great stuff... I run scalextric and I to have power issue like yours... I have put in power taps as it's quite a large track also in a shed... I'll be trying this... Always enjoy your vids.. 👍
The silver pin in the salvage pile, looks like a gear stick from some where pal and, it's incredible how much dust and dirt accumulates! That's looking mint now chap, I bet it feels like a new layout! What's next? 🙏
Loved this video Dave, I’m very tempted to try to get more track on my layout by using elevations like you, maybe I’ll put out a ‘help’ video for some layout design ideas!
Dave, I just inspected all 20M of my track and roughly 80% have the M in the rail 🤬🤬🤬. you are correct, Carrera needs to step up the Quality Assurance.
Sorry to hear that :( Must have been a bad batch. The effect is worse with digital as it needs enough contact for the 1s and 0s to get to the chip cleanly, not just the voltage
Yes but you can console yourself with the video taking about a week of evenings and I did design it for fast strip and rebuild in the first place, I'd just never tried it :)
It was R4 for me, I did have a slight case of the same issue on my digital check lane straights but it's not as prominent, it may just be law of averages, the more of anything you make, the chances of a moody box move further and further towards certainty
@slotr I'm just at the last 10 minutes of your post about the temperature changes ...I'm thinking it should be interesting with my 4 lane track in the garage ...+26c in summer days and - 25c in winter .🤔😬
Nice video Dave. I noticed at the start you had a roll under the table with the word ‘cloud’ on it. Are you the guy that looks after my photos and music? 🤔
HAHAHAHA that's actually some carpet underlay called Cloud 9 - so it must be happy , I keep meaning to put it up on the walls as sound deadening to take some of the echo out of the shed
Was that a Pioneer Legends car you were running at the end? I'm looking at purchasing a couple but I understand the guides are garbage. What after guide did you install? Any other tuning/set up tips greatly appreciated. I will putting Carson chips in to run on Carrera track. I am a complete newbie to the hobby here in Canada and the Legends cars! Thank you.
Ah, the mystery is solved. I was afraid you had something drastic planned. Modular is the way to go. I wonder if you’ll have a plethora of improved lap times.
