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Braiders -- they are crimp-on accessories for the pickups of HO cars. They let you run your HO cars on tracks that use braid, copper tape, or flat metal strips for the power conductors. Which means you can now run them on ANY slot track! Have a regular set of pickups for rail track, and a second set of Braider-equipped pickups for any other track.
Braiders are brand new -- I've just had received the first production run. They are precision etched out of spring-hard phosphor bronze, five thousandths of an inch thick (0.13mm).
Why do Braiders work? Good question. The short answer is, well, they do. That's how they came to be. I had an idea, I made a few by hand, and was surprised not only that they worked, but, crude as my hand-made prototypes were, they worked very well!
So I created artwork and photo-etched a couple hundred in my basement. And they worked too!
So now I've got production Braiders on hand. Two varieties -- a narrow design for T-jet pickups, and a wider design for pretty much everything else.
The photos I've attached include a shot of the narrow Braiders installed on a T-jet. If you look close the very tips of the fingers look polished and rounded. That particular car was tested on my oval for 1,000 laps -- just about 4-1/2 real miles (7.2km).
I'm still in the process of developing the packaging and pricing for this new product. I'm also looking for folks who would like to try some and report back on their testing.
Ed Bianchi
http://www.slotcarillustrated.com/po...1&d=1464621794
http://www.slotcarillustrated.com/po...1&d=1464621794
http://www.slotcarillustrated.com/po...1&d=1464621794
Braiders are brand new -- I've just had received the first production run. They are precision etched out of spring-hard phosphor bronze, five thousandths of an inch thick (0.13mm).
Why do Braiders work? Good question. The short answer is, well, they do. That's how they came to be. I had an idea, I made a few by hand, and was surprised not only that they worked, but, crude as my hand-made prototypes were, they worked very well!
So I created artwork and photo-etched a couple hundred in my basement. And they worked too!
So now I've got production Braiders on hand. Two varieties -- a narrow design for T-jet pickups, and a wider design for pretty much everything else.
The photos I've attached include a shot of the narrow Braiders installed on a T-jet. If you look close the very tips of the fingers look polished and rounded. That particular car was tested on my oval for 1,000 laps -- just about 4-1/2 real miles (7.2km).
I'm still in the process of developing the packaging and pricing for this new product. I'm also looking for folks who would like to try some and report back on their testing.
Ed Bianchi
http://www.slotcarillustrated.com/po...1&d=1464621794
http://www.slotcarillustrated.com/po...1&d=1464621794
http://www.slotcarillustrated.com/po...1&d=1464621794
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