Re: Magnets or no magnets , help me understand
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2018 7:33 am
One example of this action describes many Ninco models perfectly.
Like the Porsche 550 and early 57 Vette. The F1 models as well. McLaren , etc.
They had button magnets in front of the inline motor. Due to the position there and distance from the track rails, these models had only a light “pinning” action as we called it then.
You still had to drive the car. It also was an easier car to learn how to drive than the heavy magnet missiles. That infamous “break away” action described above wasn’t as pronounced. The car would drift and gave you time to correct instead of just snapping loose and ending up into the drywall.
So even though it had a magnet, it was very light and made the cars a blast to run. A good example are those early F1 models. On both my Artin and on Carrera the models were just about perfect with the magnet. Without they were very hard to tune as we had almost no tire source and close to zero aftermarket options for wheels.
Especially on Artin and Carrera where the rails had slightly more stainless in them combined with flush track mounting. This resulted in even less effect on the magnet than old standard Scalextric or Nincompoop track with the slightly raises rails.
Fast forward to today on my wood track. Clean, flat surface. Advancements in tires alone...not to mention aftermarket gear...has allowed me to tune these models to run faster than they ever did in stock form.
A friend of mine HRW Jim here on the forum, once commented about a video he watched where we were running tuned SCX Nascars on the oval. He showed up for an event here and remarked: “I swear if I wasn’t seeing it person now, I would not have believed these cars were non magnet”. “These things are hauling ass and act as they have a magnet in them”. We laughed but he was sort of dead on the money.
Tire tech, wheels, axles, bushings, brass, guides, etc and so forth. Give us the ability to tune these cars to where the lap times we see now on the oval are just as fast as the times I recorded on our Carrera version of the same dimension many years ago. With cars with stock mags in place.
Of course my tastes changed over the years and today prefer non magnet racing as my tracks pretty much show. But the quest for speed and overall performance has not. It is just the personal satisfaction of tuning them and seeing how I fare against my friends efforts. Really the same thing I did 20 years ago! Hehe
Like the Porsche 550 and early 57 Vette. The F1 models as well. McLaren , etc.
They had button magnets in front of the inline motor. Due to the position there and distance from the track rails, these models had only a light “pinning” action as we called it then.
You still had to drive the car. It also was an easier car to learn how to drive than the heavy magnet missiles. That infamous “break away” action described above wasn’t as pronounced. The car would drift and gave you time to correct instead of just snapping loose and ending up into the drywall.
So even though it had a magnet, it was very light and made the cars a blast to run. A good example are those early F1 models. On both my Artin and on Carrera the models were just about perfect with the magnet. Without they were very hard to tune as we had almost no tire source and close to zero aftermarket options for wheels.
Especially on Artin and Carrera where the rails had slightly more stainless in them combined with flush track mounting. This resulted in even less effect on the magnet than old standard Scalextric or Nincompoop track with the slightly raises rails.
Fast forward to today on my wood track. Clean, flat surface. Advancements in tires alone...not to mention aftermarket gear...has allowed me to tune these models to run faster than they ever did in stock form.
A friend of mine HRW Jim here on the forum, once commented about a video he watched where we were running tuned SCX Nascars on the oval. He showed up for an event here and remarked: “I swear if I wasn’t seeing it person now, I would not have believed these cars were non magnet”. “These things are hauling ass and act as they have a magnet in them”. We laughed but he was sort of dead on the money.
Tire tech, wheels, axles, bushings, brass, guides, etc and so forth. Give us the ability to tune these cars to where the lap times we see now on the oval are just as fast as the times I recorded on our Carrera version of the same dimension many years ago. With cars with stock mags in place.
Of course my tastes changed over the years and today prefer non magnet racing as my tracks pretty much show. But the quest for speed and overall performance has not. It is just the personal satisfaction of tuning them and seeing how I fare against my friends efforts. Really the same thing I did 20 years ago! Hehe