In this blog, I’ll take a look at how the Mustang GT4 is holding up, give it a clean, lubricate the moving parts and consider some common repairs for Scalextric cars. By the end, we’ll also have added to our basic tool kit. Over the past few weeks, the RACE Performance Ford Mustang GT4 has spent three long sessions on the Jadlam SL6 test track. The older Scalextric track is really cheap (sometimes free if you look in our local papers), but it's also likely to to need a good clean, a bit of maintainence particularly at the joints, and it's also more difficult to put together. But it's a great way to get a lot of track without spending too much. The best 4 lane layout I have raced on is Jim Butt's Flying Cow Raceway. This track was originally done in Scaley track so many designs could be tried, and the best was routed. It is 8 x 20 but could easily be scaled for 8 x 16. It looks like this in plastic: www.trackfans.tvHi Track Fans, In this episode, we start to look at the track and what we can do easily and for very little money to have enormous amounts of The best way is to put a piece of sandpaper on the track. place the car on the track with the rear wheels. on the sandpaper. Lift the rear and then press the trigger. of the controller, Lower the rear tyres onto the sandpaper. and run untill they are nice and round with all the tyre. surface touching the track. 1. Remove loose dust and debris. Mock says her first step to cleaning window tracks involves a vacuum with a brush attachment. ‘Vacuuming with the brush attachment removes dust, loose debris, and dead bugs stuck in the window track,’ she says. 2. Remove the front tyres and suddenly the cars run a lot better. Bending the braids downwards to make more positive contact with the track is often a good short term fix. Several manufacturers sell rolls of copper braid which you could use to replace the short stiff braids on your scalextric cars. Once the layout is complete, the rails will still need regular cleaning but only to remove dust and light buildup of dirt. For this something cheap and easy is required so it can be done frequently. My number one solution for this is Isopropyl Alcohol, 1lt bottles of which are available via eBay for under £10. Since digital tracks are "always on", the power will flow through the light chip, lighting up the cars head and tail lights, and power the SSD chip. Then wire the red/black from the SSD chip to the carrera motor. You can test the correct polarity of the motor output by touching a 9V to the car's braids. Replace them with plastic dowels (6mm diameter 1cm long) with a round magnet on the tip. The dowel locates into sockets on the next track section, and these sockets have a small piece of metal deep inside, to attract and secure the magnet of the dowel. Push fit together, and pull straight apart. uInMn5F.