by mether05 » Mon Feb 20, 2017 12:27 pm
DRW21, I agree with you, "the cars just need the tires washed (cleaned) before they get run to make sure the cars perform as intended"
My experience is that any tire cleaning fluid, such as Simple Green, makes it worse! It's a cleaning fluid, which then scrubs the track, spreads what is picked up to the copper, loosens any oxidation, this then sticks to the tires, then the timing system starts acting up, the controller starts to act intermittently... and so on! :P
Especially if sticky back labels are used for tire cleaning. Just my experience, please don't shoot the messenger. :roll:
I had no experience with Tapatalk till late Saturday night, or I would have taken more pictures, but especially pictures of the tires in question. Nice app when set up!
So here's what I have put together... and I still can't figure out:
•Car (one of) is built and tested on a braided track (dge467)
•Car runs 1st round on a braided track
•Car runs 2nd round on a braided track, the same track the car was built and tested on (dge467)
•Car arrives at Cornerstone with copper glaze! And was never run!?!?!?!? It must have been added during the delivery and hand-off by Allan! :angry-tappingfoot:
I was looking at the low gear causing copper dust, but the car was always run on braid!!! Built, tested, qualified and raced in rounds 1 & 2!!!
Oh well, in conclusion, I will make sure the track and tires are clean before the race on Saturday. :auto-driving:
And before you send your car off to a proxy, make sure those tires are clean, never know what the post office does to those tires in transit :laughing-rolling: