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Welcome, Optimus! Glad you found Redline Derby and hope you have fun checking all the stuff we offer, including the fantasy league game.
Great photos of your track too...but it looks like your track doesn't use standard plastic track? Maybe the photo just has bad color but it almost looks like your track lanes are wood...? I would be interested to learn more about how you guys build tracks in Brazil. Your all-lead cars are much different so maybe your track is built quick differently too.
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yeh me too, i'll send a team.... post it and see what comes up...[quote="GspeedR"]
Calm down people!
Our track is down for maintenance ... so back down to advance notice, then you may send their teams, no problem! Finishing the stage, I returned by mail.
For now it's easier for you I send my team! I just need enough money to send!
After you record the races and make available on youtube, so I can watch it here!
Welcome, Optimus! Glad you found Redline Derby and hope you have fun checking all the stuff we offer, including the fantasy league game.Great photos of your track too...but it looks like your track doesn't use standard plastic track? Maybe the photo just has bad color but it almost looks like your track lanes are wood...? I would be interested to learn more about how you guys build tracks in Brazil. Your all-lead cars are much different so maybe your track is built quick differently too.
If you have any questions about Redline Derby, please message me. Otherwise just keep posting here in the forum and we'll take care of you. We're all here for the fun.
Redlinederby Thank you! Very warm welcome!
So ... our tracks are rather wooden, much more resistant and, in my opinion, as fast as plastic!
It is that history is quite long, but I'll try to summarize ... long ago, after an exhibition in a shopping mall in Sao Paulo - Brazil, I met a collectors club called CPCVM ... there discovered downhill ... (They say they are the inventors! )
The track they had was made with strips of hot wheels tracks, but it was very precarious. The tracks were bent ... stands of the tracks off easily because of the speed ... and, ultimately, overturning leave because there was an efficient brake system.
My father is a carpenter, and also loves miniatures, when he saw the track as I fell in love and decided to reform the track for the club ... I'll post a link as it was and got a photo of how ...
Before:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyDsInJ8HCk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5DuSH3jQBc
Then:
(The photos show my father and my friend Rocker77)
It happens that, after a certain time, I and other members began to come into friction with the president where we disbanded to form another club: the club of collectors 171 ...
(171 in Brazil is synonymous with embezzling, in reference to our penal code, but also use as a reference those people who talk too much, you know - so, that our former president called us , so we decided to build a club that name, although it seems negative, it is to be recorded did the dirty with us! But can rest assured in the fact that we are nothing! )
How we lost one until things stood, I, my father and friend Rocker77, decided to create a team, the DH Racers Br, and made our own track ... therefore, we are a club within another club!
Our track is 1.80 m in height and 7m in length ... is very fast, the cars tend to walk the course at 2.5 to 3 seconds ...
See the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=838OAM1NGtI
i really like the track, but it's the fact that you built it with your dad and your buddy that is PRICELESS ! ok, ok, are the side rails of each lane angled outward ? beveled? or are they at 90 degrees ? my glasses don't work with the laptop...
i really like the track, but it's the fact that you built it with your dad and your buddy that is PRICELESS ! ok, ok, are the side rails of each lane angled outward ? beveled? or are they at 90 degrees ? my glasses don't work with the laptop...
Indeed, model40fan, build the track with two priceless! We fight and we had fun in the construction of two tracks!
As the lines, the sides have a small bevel on their bases, giving a tilt angle of the lines in the same plastic ...
The lines are glued with white glue for wood, like this: \ __ /
It is a craft work guys ... however, does not require much skill in his hands!
very, very cool... it should be fast with that serious inclined stretch... i raced on a wooden track with no bevel [once] tore the paint off the sides of the bodies...
Very cool! So another question now that you posted the other photos...
Is your finish line electronic? Because it looks mechanical, no batteries or anything.
One thing I've been trying to design and build since I started racing was a reliable finish line that could be built with parts from the hardward store but I haven't gotten very far.
Electronic finish lines might be more accurate but if you're not running a time then it's kind of overkill for the prices you have to pay. Plus you have setup, a cords and environmental concerns. If you guys made your own finish line that works well, I'd like to see how you made it.
This is awesome, Optimus. It's great getting all this inside story from you.
tore the paint off the sides of the bodies...
Unfortunately, this ends up happening at all! Due to speed, some toy cars even lose painting side ...
I have a custom bass line very fast, adhesives laterals no longer exist ....
It is a disadvantage of the track!
The advantage is that it is much firmer, and the edges of the tracks are higher, avoiding the cars end up turning over ...
Very cool! So another question now that you posted the other photos...Is your finish line electronic? Because it looks mechanical, no batteries or anything.
One thing I've been trying to design and build since I started racing was a reliable finish line that could be built with parts from the hardward store but I haven't gotten very far.
Electronic finish lines might be more accurate but if you're not running a time then it's kind of overkill for the prices you have to pay. Plus you have setup, a cords and environmental concerns. If you guys made your own finish line that works well, I'd like to see how you made it.
This is awesome, Optimus. It's great getting all this inside story from you.
Redlinederbi Thank you!
So ... images of our system of arrival are already outdated ... belong to this club do not do that part!
Teoriacamente That system would be very efficient, but does not work in practice!
As you can see, consisted of four timers with a very simple connection ... weld was made in a 4-fire trigger time, connected by a cable attached to a button at the start. At the start there was a pulley that drives the lay and fired the four timers at once ...
Likewise, there was a solder in the 4 trigger, zeroed timers, connected by a cable to another button, which was also the start. So after the race, it was possible to reset all timers at once ...
At each stop trigger timer, independent welds were linked to four buttons that were under the wooden structure ... were triggered when the cars hit those acrylic plates, locking the clocks ...
So, who scored the fastest time would win!
The problem is that sometimes the cart went so fast that the acrylic plate hit the button and not close to the stopwatch ... and not only that, we thought timers worked equally, had a faster time than the other! Incredible as it may seem!
Finally, depended on a programming logic, as if someone zerasse timers when one was telling them, hinder the operation of all other ... so we dropped this system!
However, we are working for some time in another system, as simple as the previous one, which for now is working! But did not test on tracks 4 ... follow the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm9QefuuaVs
If it works as designed, I say we build!
But I was curious, I've seen some races on youtube and i saw that in USA there is a system that works with laser sensors, if I remember correctly is a club in Texas North... thought that technology was more accessible to you! You do not have? The price is high?
optimus, if you ever have a mail-in race in Brazil, I would be happy to send you some GsR microracing goes 'international'.