Ok let's have some brain teasers:
What company made polymer Tjet magnets in the
1960s and sold them even before the TuffOnes came out?

I have to guess - LaGanke Racing Products?

Boy! - I had some of them (prob'ly still do). Champion?

GOD made them for us, weeeeeeeeeeeee

C.mon guys.The racers on the other board got it.

Just a guess, AutoWorld? When tjets were going strong, I was a toddler.

Heck, I don't remember anything from the '60s... :devil:


Jeff


p.s. I didn't inhale...

Mura made them.Just before the Tuffones came out and made them
obsolete.They were barely stronger than a stock Tjet magnet.

OK-What company wound all of their arms backwards and you
had to swap your magnets around in your Tjets?

Was it LaGanke??? I recall having a "hot arm" that had the poles painted yellow and an OHM rating of 7-7.5. And it was wound backwards and you had to swap the magnets around.

Bob Weichbrodt
A and H Hobbies
Clemmons,NC

Very good.And their epoxy coated double wind was a dud.

What color was the pan on the first Tycopro.

I would say black......?



Cheers..

Yep.


Where did the gray paint for the armature laminations
come from? (this might just be an old rumor).

Out of a can of gray paint....

World War II remain stocks

Very good.Rumor has it they were right near
the shipyards and "battleship gray" was
in abundance.

Who sold the RTR cobalt G+ cars?

I wonder if Mean Greens are then surplus zinc chromate primer?

I doubt battleship gray would have had that much gloss to it though.........

Maybe surplus transformer gray from just about anywhere.......

surplus zinc chromate
Spoken from some someone who has done some topside priming and painting?

Speaking of slot car trivia and "mean green," did Aurora slap that name on the arm or did it come from folklore? Maybe Auto World?

Speaking of slot car trivia and "mean green," did Aurora slap that name on the arm or did it come from folklore? Maybe Auto World?

How long has REH been around? I thought I heard rumor REH slapped that moniker on 'em.

GP

REH did some product of their own in the 60's for bigger scale cars, but I don't know how long they have been distributing old stock.........


Never topside painted anything, but know the industry and built alot of model planes with detailed interiors :tongue:

Answer-Randy Kemp (K&K)
Wasn't American Line actualy a R&H moniker? I wonder if the mean
grean nickname was hung on the Wild One series where that spec.
wind was first used.The early ones of mine had gray paint and OHMd
beween 5.8 and 6.2.

Heck I wasn't even born yet.

Ok-what was the difference between the early
and later Riggen chassis?

Lemme step in here, since I seem to know something: The motor was dropped through the chassis, while it sat on top of it in the first series. Then there was a change in the wheels, press on (later) vs set srew. And finally the pickups, copper/bronze at first, and later braid (or vice versa?!?)

Michael

Very good
What was the vibrator power supply and
could you run a tjet on it?

Vibe power supplies were AC and you could run a Tjet for about 10 feet :)
Actually, they sold an AC to DC conveter so you could use the vibe power supply for your Tjets.

Thanks,
Keith

New one;

What was the first Production HO slot car sold with Silicone-Style tires and what were they called?

That's easy....Tyco with their Tyco pro's wearing the "white boots" ....around 1970 ..Tom O.

I sport a unique chassis, was produced only one year (1981) and there was only one single model range ever made.....

I sport a unique chassis, was produced only one year (1981) and there was only one single model range ever made.....
oooh, that's a tough one!

That wasn't the Maxx can-am bodied car made by Russkit was it? Tom O.

Exact Russell Maxx - Lola :thumbsup:

Another new one;

What company cloned the TycoPro chassis, never introduced it in the USA for fears of a Lawsuit, but did release it under a different name overseas?

I give......No idea...Anyone?...I'm interested to know this one!........Tom O.

Rotafast maybe...... they cloned the bottom of a Tyco and the top of an AFX in one single chassis ;)

Check it Here on my website (http://slotcar.zanzaman.com/tip_rotafast.html)

OK, tough one, maybe;-)
How about Bachmann, selling the clone as "Blaster". But: They offered it in the States, at least I assumed so. Only ones I ever saw came from the States.
For the second part of the answer:The other name was Kader.

Now my opinion on this: Wasn't Kader the company designing and producing the stuff for Bachmann? Kader sold the Groove Busters also, everywhere outside the States....

Well, something like that....

Michael

Winner!

As far as I know, they were packaged for the US but never sold here.
And yes Kader was what they were marketed as in Japan, etc.
Kader and Bachman were joined at the hip by the sounds of things.

Here is a Pic of a Charger in Bachman packaging on Sluggers excellent website;

http://hodrags.com/MfrBachman.html

Enjoy!
Keith



OK, tough one, maybe;-)
How about Bachmann, selling the clone as "Blaster". But: They offered it in the States, at least I assumed so. Only ones I ever saw came from the States.
For the second part of the answer:The other name was Kader.

Now my opinion on this: Wasn't Kader the company designing and producing the stuff for Bachmann? Kader sold the Groove Busters also, everywhere outside the States....

Well, something like that....

Michael

That was very interesting.The Marx Ho cars and the
Atlas (not the Zinger) looked very similar ,gear train
wise.Anyone know any history?


Also,what company also made vibrator cars in 1960?
They were 1/52nd scale.

OK, I start with your second question, since this is the one which is possible to be answered: Wrenn 152. The Mark I motor was a vibrator, but with the coil mounted horizontally.

Now for the first one: I have no idea. There were obvious similarities between Marx, Lionel, Atlas, Marusan and Faller. The last three were cooperating a lot, so its suggested that they started all with the same design, knowingly. I have been told, that Atlas never invented anything for themselves (slotcar wise), and that all the design is supposed to come from Marusan. But then there is an Atlas patent, filed in 22nd of June 1962, showing their unique 5 pole block motor, used in their cars.
Faller copied/licensed the Atlas design, before starting off their own or copied others.
Now Marx was an early bird: There is a patent for their block motor, filed in 6th November 1961! And in this patent they show their car with chassis from the underside, so this was already completely designed by that time. But since Atlas sold their stuff in early 1962 also, the design was supposed to be complete by that time also. Coincidence? I don't believe, but we may never know.....

Michael

When I was about six I got a Marx set.My dad was
filming the set with an eight MM movie camera.The
bright flood lights melted the track.He picked up a
vibrator set to replace it.I was didapointed the cars
were so much slower and the pickups wore out.Then
he brought home a T jet galaxy wich I promptly burned
up.Then he came home with another one,a yellow conv.
and a DC transformer.We could run both types then.
The vibes were a Gray vette and a Yellow Jag both
convertables.The Marx cars were a blue and a red T-bird.
We still have them on film.The Bachman cars when they
came out were real slow.The mungo Tycos were almost as
bad.I still think those Marx cars would put a Tjet away.