The other day I made one of my usual stops at Goodwill looking for slot stuff, and they had this Scalextric 1/32 set for 25 bucks.
I tried really hard to talk myself out of it. I even left the store. But it was calling to me, and when I went back and the guy who I saw looking at it after I walked away hadn't bought it, I took it as a sign that I was meant to have it. So I brought it home and set it up on the kitchen table to see what all worked...
I had to dig the braid gizmos out from under the loose guard rail retainers in the bottom of the box, but after I figured out how they snapped over the guide flag, we were in business. Both cars and controllers work, but there's some stuff I'm trying to figure out, and the only paperwork that came with it appears to be a layout guide to get you to buy extra track. So maybe some of the 1/32 experts here can help me out:
1. How come the blue car worked on either lane, but the purple one only worked on the inside lane? Does that have to do with the switch on the terminal track, or the jumper wires under the terminal track, or something else?
2. Is the idea with the switch that you can get a second power supply and plug it in to the second power inlet and flip that switch and have each lane use an isolated power supply?
3. Do the magnets come out of these cars? I'd like them to slide a little more but I haven't had time to diddle with them...
4. Does an adapter exist to connect this track to REEEEEEALLY old Scaley track? My uncle gave me a big box that he had in the late 60s...
5. Is this one of those systems that runs on AC so that the two cars can run on one lane?
6. Anything else cool you all can tell me about my find?
I would have posted this in 1/32, but it seems kind of slow in there...
thanks in advance for any help!
--rick


I tried really hard to talk myself out of it. I even left the store. But it was calling to me, and when I went back and the guy who I saw looking at it after I walked away hadn't bought it, I took it as a sign that I was meant to have it. So I brought it home and set it up on the kitchen table to see what all worked...


I had to dig the braid gizmos out from under the loose guard rail retainers in the bottom of the box, but after I figured out how they snapped over the guide flag, we were in business. Both cars and controllers work, but there's some stuff I'm trying to figure out, and the only paperwork that came with it appears to be a layout guide to get you to buy extra track. So maybe some of the 1/32 experts here can help me out:
1. How come the blue car worked on either lane, but the purple one only worked on the inside lane? Does that have to do with the switch on the terminal track, or the jumper wires under the terminal track, or something else?


2. Is the idea with the switch that you can get a second power supply and plug it in to the second power inlet and flip that switch and have each lane use an isolated power supply?
3. Do the magnets come out of these cars? I'd like them to slide a little more but I haven't had time to diddle with them...
4. Does an adapter exist to connect this track to REEEEEEALLY old Scaley track? My uncle gave me a big box that he had in the late 60s...
5. Is this one of those systems that runs on AC so that the two cars can run on one lane?
6. Anything else cool you all can tell me about my find?
I would have posted this in 1/32, but it seems kind of slow in there...
thanks in advance for any help!
--rick