Ho Brass chassis speedway builds

[Axle]

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[HO RacePro]

Nice work Ed,
I will check out the stainless tubing sounds interesting i am interested to know did you make your guide or buy it? Cheers Tj

TJ, that's a Slide Guide. I make and sell them. Have done for about (gag!) thirty years! (Oh my lord!)

That stainless steel tubing, by the way, is the same stuff they make hypodermic needles out of. You can get it as small as 0.008 inch OD with a wall thickness of 0,002 inches. Or as large as 0.120 inch OD with a wall thickness of 0.015 inches. Stiff and strong as it is it still can be bent. It also can be soldered with 'Sta-Brite' silver solder and 'Stay-Clean' acid flux.

[HO RacePro]

Ed, would that be the proof of concept original adjust-a-mag chassis?

Im curious about the drop arm hangers. Hammered rod, then drilled and pinned into a carrier bushing?

Gives me an eye deer.

Please enlighten me.

Bill

Yes Bill, that is the prototype MagPro chassis with the adjustable button traction magnets. Those are 2-56 socket head cap screws, if I remember right. They thread down through brass hex nuts that are soldered to the stainless tubing.

The chassis does not have a drop arm. The guide is mounted on a formed piece of piano wire which is soldered to the frame.

The rear axle is supported in brass tubing. A piano wire clip, formed around and soldered to the brass tube, is inserted in the end of each stainless frame tube as reinforcement. There is another, smaller bit of brass tubing riding on the axle and inside the brass tube, free to spin. Shhh! That's a secret speed tweak!

I still have that chassis, and it runs pretty well, just not fast enough to be competitive in the current HO mag-racer scene. But it did prove the concept. I just never took it any further because -- as you well know -- I'm not into magnet racing.

Ed Bianchi

[model murdering]

Brass H0 chassis? I twist them up from time to time. Here's a tubular tilt nose '41 Willys from some years back. A drop through modified Tyco box motor, right off the rails, makes for a flux monster. Anti-grav is not really my thing either, it just worked out that way.

[tjk]

Mini 8mm*16mm Coreless Motor DC6V-12V High Speed Dual 1mm Shaft RC HO Rail Train

[tjk]

TJ, that's a Slide Guide. I make and sell them. Have done for about (gag!) thirty years! (Oh my lord!)

That stainless steel tubing, by the way, is the same stuff they make hypodermic needles out of. You can get it as small as 0.008 inch OD with a wall thickness of 0,002 inches. Or as large as 0.120 inch OD with a wall thickness of 0.015 inches. Stiff and strong as it is it still can be bent. It also can be soldered with 'Sta-Brite' silver solder and 'Stay-Clean' acid flux.

Nicely done Ed how great work on the guides they look very neat indeed do you have a web site best regards tj