Professor Motor to make slot cars

[Ember]

Just having them back in production will be change enough for now. Though I suppose the historic Nascars may well have a preferential on the production list.

[DAVE]

I love the "legaleese" in the announcement. The best of luck to him. Now it is up to us to support
him by buying the product. Any changes in the chassis design will probably have to wait until some
capital funds are accrued. Making engineering changes can be expensive. If the tooling were being
run here I might be coerced into donating some time as I have with some other hobby manufacturers.
But I won't travel to do it, especially overseas.

[Ember]

I'd love to see the XKE with a 'normal' motor mount rather than front mount. And a roadster.

But more than anything I'd like to see Professor Motor do well in this venture.

[TuscoTodd]

That is GREAT news!
Revell / Monogram had great looking bodies - it was just the chassis side of things that they seemed to struggle with - hopefully with Professor Motor being involved, there will be a step forward in this arena in the near future - but either way, I am looking forward to the return!

[Xr4ti]

The best news I've heard in a while. I've been a fan of Revell since they produced the split-window 'Vette back in the day. Awesome Andy!!! :text-thankyouyellow:

[tr6cra]

Hopefully they will produce some replacement axles for my Jaguar XKE!

[Ember]

You can use standard 3/32 axles on the Jag

[sidedraft]

Hope they hire more help in this new biz. venture & sounds good for the hobby, as it is now the service from them have not been the best lately.
The best of luck to them.

[HRWJim]

Sounds like good news. A reputable slot car manufacture is never bad. Wish they would do something with the chassis but we will take what we can get and tune as needed like the Bibbster said. Jim

[Modlerbob]

Having a full line of replacement parts is the part of the news that I see as refreshing. Several of my R/M cars have been sidelined due to broken parts. As with most everyone else I see this as a positive event for the future of slot racing.

[tr6cra]

I'm actually looking for replacement wheels which come mounted on the axle. I would prefer stock. Thanks!

[dreinecke]

WOW! Great news for sure! Go Andy, Go!

If they can give us rear wheels that don't wobble and a little larger diameter tire, I'm all set with it the way it is.!

[Reslotted]

:think:
Ok they have my attention.
RM made some cool cars. Ok, some of them didn't quite run on a par with other brands, but if you ran them together everything was equal and they were a lot of fun.

[Florida_Slotter]

I'm very happy to hear that someone has taken up where Revell-Monogram has stopped.

I must say their McLaren M6A, Lola T70 Spyder and Chaparral 2A are cars that I am very interested in, well at least the bodies.

Interestingly, all 3 of these cars have completely different styles of chassis under them. Chaparral uses the Sebring chassis with an inline FF80 motor, the Lola uses a sidewinder FC 130 motor and the McLaren uses an anglewinder configuration with an FC130 motor.

Thus far my biggest challenge to make run properly was the Chaparral. I wanted to upgrade the car, put real bushings (SCC) in the rear, Slot.It gears, axles and wheels and make it run as smooth as possible. Well I was not thinking about the disparity in the motor centerline to the rear axle centerline. I simply assumed that I could use a Slot.It offset gear and no issues. Wrong. A trick I used to use in retro racing made it all work.

I assembled the rear end components and then hooked up the bench power supply with a supplied voltage of 4.0 volts. The gears were very noisy and the motor was drawing .38 amps. I got out my handy dandy Radio Shack Micro Torch and fired it up. Then I started to apply heat to the crown gear, all the time listening to the gear mesh and watching the current draw. As the crown gear warmed up, it got nice and quiet and the current draw went down to .08 amps. After removing the heat source, I let the assembly run for about 20 seconds and then shut it down. When I put the chassis on the track, it was very quiet and smooth running. I might be wrong, but I do believe it was a bit quicker on my test track, but I will wait until an official test session running against other cars.

Both my McLaren and Lola have received chassis upgrades. The McLaren now has a Slot.It M8 chassis under it and the Lola an HRS2 chassis. Both are sidewinders and run very well and very smooth.

Looking forward to seeing what PM will do. I have to concur with Harry on this. I do believe that PM will continue the product line as is. Development costs are quite high and I really do not see a good return on investment. But at least we will still have the products available to the hobby.

Thanks Professor Motor.

[waaytoomuchintothis]

Well, there's plenty there to keep us going quite a while, especially, as has been observed here, if they really go hard at it with replacement parts like axle sets, which are so easily used in scratchbuilt cars.