Ian Wood

I fixed it the way I used to fix slot cars when I was a kid: I took it apart, pulled the cat fur out of the gears, and put it back together. Now it works.

Do not question my methods.

2 Comments

By Anne on September 27, 2009 7:41 AM

It's good, how your mind works. My peepers, being almost as old as I, cannot well see your illustration, but it reminds me that i've been wanting to build a mouse trap car or two for sometime. On return home today, i shall order parts. Grand how life works out.

By Ian Wood on September 27, 2009 7:38 PM

It's not your eyes. Not entirely, anyway. It was the only exploded view of a slot car racer I could find, and it's of so-so quality. There was one comprehensive slot car racing site that showed many promising results in Google Image search, but had a BANDWIDTH EXCEEDED page from its ISP (it must be the most popular slot car racing website on the Internet). I used to race those little cars a lot, and hadn't thought about them in years...they're still around, and unlike modern Hot Wheels sets, they've got track sets now that I would've killed for in my youth. I still remember the electric smell of the cars after they'd been raced awhile, and the scrape and creak of the springs and contacts in the rheostats of the trigger throttles. Strange to think that those little cars and their tracks are probably in a landfill somewhere now, twenty feet under, awaiting some future archeological expedition.

Good lord, I seem to have rambled on. Must go off and chastise m'self.