As the track is sort of done..... I'm sure I will think of a few things to do to it - timing and counting being the main one.....I had a look in that old dusty box in the loft to see what I could find. Quite a few abandoned projects from the 60s/70s, chassis parts and just one motor!!
Soldering iron on, flux and solder to the fore, lets see if I remember how to do this.
And the answer is....sort of. Actually the chassis that has resulted looks like a cack handed plumber's wet dream so no pics here!!! Screwed in the motor, one of my modified Parmas that I added to the box in the 80s sometime and have never used. Placed the work of art on the track. Pressed the go button. Slight crack, plume of smoke drifts over the start and finish line and a fuse pops! Stripping the motor reveals nothing whatsoever obvious, presumably a short deep in the windings somewhere.
Anyway, wanting to get the chassis going, I took the motor from an old Revell Cobra and screwed that in. The Cobra is rubbish and falls over at every corner as a good old Revell chassis should. After watching it crawl down the straight I was astonished at the way the thing handles. Talk about an excess of handling over power. Just occasionally, throwing together some old bits might result in an accidental gem. It will be interesting to see how it goes with a good motor in it. I had forgotten how slow a standard Revell can is.
So, decision to make on the Parma. Rewind, new armature or just find another motor. If anyone has something interesting just sitting doing nothing and wants at least £2.50 for it I might well be interested.
Soldering iron on, flux and solder to the fore, lets see if I remember how to do this.
And the answer is....sort of. Actually the chassis that has resulted looks like a cack handed plumber's wet dream so no pics here!!! Screwed in the motor, one of my modified Parmas that I added to the box in the 80s sometime and have never used. Placed the work of art on the track. Pressed the go button. Slight crack, plume of smoke drifts over the start and finish line and a fuse pops! Stripping the motor reveals nothing whatsoever obvious, presumably a short deep in the windings somewhere.
Anyway, wanting to get the chassis going, I took the motor from an old Revell Cobra and screwed that in. The Cobra is rubbish and falls over at every corner as a good old Revell chassis should. After watching it crawl down the straight I was astonished at the way the thing handles. Talk about an excess of handling over power. Just occasionally, throwing together some old bits might result in an accidental gem. It will be interesting to see how it goes with a good motor in it. I had forgotten how slow a standard Revell can is.
So, decision to make on the Parma. Rewind, new armature or just find another motor. If anyone has something interesting just sitting doing nothing and wants at least £2.50 for it I might well be interested.