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Track work at FRC

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Last Saturday, O'Brie, Steve and I did a bit of a marathon session (about five hours) of work continuing the project to improve power on the track rails. The idea has always been to solder all the track pieces together, leaving areas where we could remove sections for future maintenance. We had divided this into six sections as shown below:

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At our previous similar session we had completed sections 1 and 2. On Saturday we completed sections 3 and 4, as well as part of section 5. We also installed and connected junction boxes for the completed sections. The boxes join the soldered sections together so that we will effectively have one continuous piece of track when the job is finished.

We also took the opportunity to move the lane changer directly behind the pits down away from the preceding corner and closer to the carousel entrance. This will stop those annoying unwanted lane changes when the car slides exiting the preceding corner. This change is reflected in the diagram above.

It eventually started to get too dark to see the details needed to continue the soldering and we packed up. Here are a few more pics taken not long before packing up:

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We just rested section 5 on the table since more solder work is necessary. We'll have to dedicate next Saturday afternoon to completion of at least this section in order to have the track useable for next week's event.
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Re: Track work at FRC

Post by obrie »

We sure got into a rhythm there! Thanks to Steve and the heavy duty soldering iron helped also. I hope we can get an earlier start this Saturday as we have zone 6 to do which is the main Straight with pits etc!!!! Looking forward to it as Thursday’s GT race showed there was no way for my slightly faster car to pass Steve for 49 laps!!!! Great fun all the same!
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Re: Track work at FRC

Post by Luke »

Very neat looking & well organized track work Gordon ...

It even made me remember those Saturday (mid-morning) ‘text messages’ long ago :D
  • You’re welcome to come over Luke ... Putting down track for a couple hours.
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