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Hiya, brilliant videos. I'm just wondering if you knew which screws you've used for the motor mount to the chassis. I need to get some new ones for a recently bought 911 and can't find them listed anywhere. Thanks in advance, David

Love those speed secrets!

Here in Hollywood, we had three hard-and-fast rules for weight placement: 1. Always place weights on the pan. The pan functions to decouple body+pan yaw inertia from the rest of the car's yaw inertia. Yaw inertia impact force is generated when the car must quickly change direction entering a turn. It acts to push the guide out of the slot. The impact force is minimized (by spreading impact out over time) when the body+pan assembly can: have a high percentage of car mass, move independently, be well damped such as with James' gel strips. 2. Always locate the weights as far as possible from the car's roll axes. These axes run fron the guide pivot to the tire outer centerlines. Cornering force acts on the roll moment of inertia about these axes. We want those roll moments of inertia to be large so as to resist roll movement and loss of guide force in the slot. 4:14 and 12:22 are spot on for this chassis. 3. Always use depleted uranium for weights. The defense industry left plenty behind.

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Hey dude,build a c 21 chassis,thats what beginners are racing in the US

Just a few basic questions, What is the average life of a Hawk 7 motor? how does the break in process play into the life span of the motor?

Please make more videos on brushless slot cars!

What do you clean the acid flux off the chassis with, when you are done to prevent corrosion? Love this series, its good to see you doing things with brushless. Thanks!

Brushless 1/24 Euro Sport from AB slotsport

I thought you already cleaned it with lighter fluid and a brush(?)

looks like the hole in the pinion is over-sized

Good video, great info! Gave you a sub. Race On!

I would like to say THANK YOU for your intel I have learned a lot about slot cars

great video

where is part2

Could you make a new vídeo servicing a brushless motor??

Once you glue the bearing in the chassis HOW DO YOU TAKE THEM OUT ?? I had some glued in and couldn’t get them back out to replace

I have them in a fridge for 10years and come out like new. All serious racers all over the world for the years and years have know this. I don't know if it is that dark in the fridge, how do you know 😮

Hi CleaveTech - absolutely brilliant! As an old mechanical engineer from the sixties (yes, I am that old!), every bit of balance adjustment could make difference between a "win" or a "loss". A lot of our mods on the muscle cars of the era were done with "hands-on" work like you are demonstrating. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with a younger generation and a few older guys like me, Ciao, L (FoMoCo engineer, retired).

I'm thinking about getting into slot car racing. I had a Strombecker 1/32 set in the 1960s. Why do the brushes have that curved where you end up making it straight and a straight area where you end up making it curved? If I looked at that without knowing anything about your process I would say the brushes are installed 90º out of position. They are flat against the curved commutator area and curved against the flat commutator area.

Paper is .004 with mic in standard measurement. You just answered as i was typing. Sometimes I'll mic a piece of paper and pull it between the anvils to clean them

I can tell by some of your tools and vocabulary you're most likely a machinist

Hiya thinking of doing a GRBL conversion on my MDX-15 would you say that it was successful?

When I go round corners more s corners it slides out when I leave the corner

I put weight for a tri-oval in the middle on the left side.

Do you recommend using a Dremel and Scotch-Brite on an axle before you install it? Rear axle, of course

Great information

How can I buy that mounting jigg

To make your ho mega g pmus cars better and faster is literally gel claw tires if running plastic afx track especially if its a two lane with no room to slide and the car keeps de slottting unlike 4 lane where the car can slide and not debslot. I do everything in this video and man my ho cars are screaming now i just got a few tjey cars and a few especially the ford gt40 mkii short chassis mega g us car all these tips maxe that car stick better and not deslot as easy as it would when it was box stock that balancing device makrs a huge difference as well

James, do you exclusively use 72p gears. I didn’t see mention of 64p.

You didn't adjust the arm to the magnets by putting a piece of tape on the arm while the epoxy hardens.

A wonderful thing. Can you provide the model file?

Excellent video! Does your Motor Analyzer work with Mabuchi-style 25k motors for 1/32 scale? Where can we purchase the CleaveTech Motor Analyzer in the US? Many thanks

What would you recommend for the Mabuchi-style motors that we run in 1/32 scale cars? Your CleaveTech Motor Analyzer looks great, but would it work for 1/32 scale also? How could I order this if it will work? Many thanks!

Great video. I’ve never built a slot car before and I’m currently doing research on how to build one.

Couldn't have come at a better time! Im getting one of these ready for action at the moment for our 14 year old son! He's racing 1/24th and f2 currently. You never know, you could see us at a track in the future 😜 🏎💨

Wow I have a lot to learn, I would never have thought you could submerge an electric motor in water without shorting everything out!! Today I learned different,lol

lol almost like i'm back at work! Nice job James!!

I blew it because my body started scraping on the track in the later stints and I lost too many laps. I am really happy for Bill who borrowed one of the other cars I'd prepared according to James' excellent vids :-)

Great video James. Love your tech videos and your club/racing videos

hello James !! - thats cool !! British SC championship....

Way to go Martin! And how incredible is that track? Wow

The car was simply superb. What an absolutely fantastic experience the whole weekend was. Such a friendly and fun event with fantastic people, who made every effort to give advice and assist whoever was in need of help. I am already looking forward to next year. Huge thanks to yourself James, for the Tech support and the many words of wisdom. I'm extremely grateful. To anybody who is in two minds about entering next year, you'll have an amazing weekend of great company and fun racing, so come along and give it a go. I'll see you there.

Thanks for the Video 👍 greetings from Germany. Hubert

Great video ❤ I use a cut off disc then go in with a file. Not built one of these specific chassis so very helpful for me to check if I get one of these. I have found that after building a metal chassis you do have to check them as they bend easy.

It would be nice if hudy made a longer axel in 3/32 to use in drag racing for two narrow tires

Is there a way to get in touch with u?I want to purchase 2 of your tire jigs for the huddy tire truer

"promosm" 😃

I want to buy a Cleave Tech body mount jig. I Google searched for the mounting jig and there was only one source in Australia with long shipping times. Is there a US source for the mounting jig.

Hello James !! I didnt know its not allowed to free more movement . Is this Reg also in ISRA ? - Great to see more of your videos ! - Cheers From Rio / Brazil