located on the floor above the track that I didn't notice for a couple weeks. Every time someone
used the sink, water would drip down on to the track, filling the slots and swelling the MDF.
By the time I noticed what was happening, it was a total loss. Really took the wind out of my sails
as I had put a lot of time, money and effort in to the layout. I took a break from slots for a while.
Lately, my kids who are now 10 and 7, have expressed an interest in slot cars and I've been taking
them to some of the local routed tracks like the one at Slot Car Corner and they have loved it.
When we left Slot Car Corner my youngest said "When are we going to build a track at our new house"?
and I told him it was going to take some work to clean out the 'scary side' of the basement and
make it nice enough to have a track.. He replied "Why don't we just go home and do it"?
So, that's what we did.. The kids worked for hours with me over the next few weekends to take
out trash, paint walls, paint the floor, put up paneling etc.. I was surprised at how much they
did without losing interest..
So here's the first construction update of the new track being built in our basement.
I like both oval and road course racing so I’ve decided to make another ‘Roval’ similar to
the track that got wrecked. This one will be 16 feet long by 7 feet wide at one end, narrowing
a bit at the other end. The big turn at the far end of the track is a constant radius, all
other turns will be varying and made using Lufs lexan strip. I like the way you can make
increasing and decreasing radius turns and have the cars follow a bit more of a racing line in
the corners..
So far I’ve got the table built and the 3/8 mdf cut to size. I’ve also made interchangeable
drop in sections for the front straight that will allow me to run it as an oval, or swap out a
small section and run it as a road course. I’ll install a reversing switch so the track can be run
clockwise or counterclockwise on the oval or the road course.
Here are a few pictures of what I’ve got so far.. I’m going to draw out the roadway for the
road course next, then it’s time to make some dust ~
Didn't take any pictures of the scary basement, this is after painting and cleaning:
Table going up, track lighting done, more race stuff on wall:
MDF cut to size, drop in section where the opening is:
Today I got the oval roadway penciled in..road course outline is next:
More as I progress~
