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Old 02-14-2023 | 10:29 PM
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testfly
 
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I have completed 4 cars now and they turned out great.


I have run hundreds of laps with each to be sure they perform as expected.


Notice the bubbles in the yellow car. (more on this in a moment)


The White car and the Green car were pulled from PETG. The Yellow car and the Red car were pulled from Lexan.


Here is a look at the bodies before they were painted. The Yellow body is the top one with all the air bubbles.
This happens because of moisture in the Lexan. To avoid this you need to dry the Lexan before you use it.
I did not dry the Lexan for the top body and you see the results. I did dry the Lexan before I pulled the second body and it came out great.
I removed the Lexan from the 220F oven and then heated it for the pull and you see the results. So I will be drying the Lexan before I use it moving forward.



Here is a look at the tire tool I designed that makes it very easy to remove a TPU tire from the rim. It can also be used to remove a TPU tire from a rim that is mounted on the car.

Here is a short video showing how to use the tire tool.



Here is a look at the concrete before I started the track layout.


Race Track Coming Soon.


I laid out the track design and painted the outside of the track Green. The dark green is almost dry. The lighter Green is still wet.


I used a oil base concrete paint.

I have completed the outside wall (1" thin wall PVC) and have started on the inside wall which will be 1" thin wall PVC
and 3/8' hose. The 1" thin wall PVC will be setup so that it can be flipped over to create a longer track layout which will add another turn
to the layout. More on this later.

Last edited by testfly; 02-14-2023 at 10:34 PM.