Never ran out of revs. Motor just went flat after so many laps. Ran out of things to try.
Hi Wallbasher, just chatted with Mike... Like his modified guides, nice wt down as low as it goes..
Anytime with a 6 the chutes are going to have to be short...otherwise the poor thing runs out of revs... Last time I was at Rogers, the chute was too long for sure, never been to Mike's place and no idea how long the main one is... You tried, that's all we can do is try and find the magic bullet...HAHAHA KEEP EM IN THE SLOT
Funny that no one has said if anything mentioned here has done a damn thing to either help or not...Another reason I don't like to get involved on the sites... Crash
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Never ran out of revs. Motor just went flat after so many laps. Ran out of things to try.
Why do I do this to myself?
My guess is that it did run out, and began floating the brushes which leads to heat build up, distorting the com, the more they bounce the hotter the com gets, the hotter the com gets the more out of round it gets and the more the brushes bounce hence the drop off.. My friends in ISRA scale racing now tell me the 5T pinions won't last on tracks with long chutes due to over reving and brush wear.. So back to 6/44, 6/45... on tracks with intermediate chute lengths 5/39 might bridge the gap.. I've raced two times now with 5T at our now gone Rhonert Park trackNever thought I'd run an 84,5 arm on a flat track..Oh well, time marches on.. keep em in the slot
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jenson, did you ever check the brush overlap? Brush overlap can cause a lot of heat. I run the same PS .540 @ 45 degree arm with Cahozza T5 magnets in Red Fox cans and had an overheating and push start problem. I cured both by removing .005-.010 of brush from the side of the brushs and installing the cut side as the trailing edge of the brush. Doing this doesn't affect the timing only the overlap. I remove the material from the first 1/3 of the contact end of the brush NOT the entire length of the brush. It worked for me maybe it'll help you. You do realize that Proslot measures timing differently? That 45 degree arm is more like 50 degrees. I suggest you go to their site, if you haven't already, and read the tech article on arm timing. I have no problem running 72 pitch 7x42 or 7x43 gears with .700 diameter tires.
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I've done so much with so little for so long it seems like I can do anything with nothing at all.
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What sort of life do you get with your G12's??
Crash was saying that he cut comms and re-zapped every race...so that's why he doesn't get the dreaded fade I guess
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swodem, I don't race GP12 a lot anymore, it use to be my favorite wing car class. I raced it in the Mid-Atlantic series for several years. As I recall I would refresh all the motors after every race as needed. By that I mean I would clean and zap the motor, clean the arm and cut the comm., clean and reface the brushes, check spring tension, and replace bushing/bearings if needed. I would do this if I had raced the motor or practiced with it extensively. I would discard any arm with a comm. .180 or less after a fresh cut. I could easily get 6-10 cuts off an arm before I would quit using it. I recently purchased a couple of arms I used in the Flexi Flats and because the high timed arms gave me so much trouble I purchased lower timed arms. They worked very good with no overheating or push start problems, they just needed a better driver.
I've done so much with so little for so long it seems like I can do anything with nothing at all.
to light spring tension
So heavier spring tension that applies more pressure to the comm. and increases friction is the cure for high timed arms overheating? Funny, why didn't I think of that?
I've done so much with so little for so long it seems like I can do anything with nothing at all.
You guys should have John Havlicek wind you some custom H-12 arms. For testing and research only of course. They are not USRA approved but that doesn't stop anyone from running them for other purposes.
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Sam I hope he is paying for the promotion you are doing.
I really miss John's posts. Well thought out & informative. I don't fb but would welcome John to post here.
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No Mike. He does what he does for the love of the hobby and sport. Not so much for profit. So I don't know if my promotion fees are in his budget.
Sometimes his custom built 26-Ds and 36-Ds go for what he has into them. Got to say though, anything he makes with heat sinks seems to get good money.
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A question was asked at SB as to where John was. I posted a reply and a link to this thread. The thread is now deleted at SB. Seems someone still holds a grudge.
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Ya' think?
You said: "I posted a reply and a link to this thread." Actually it's this thread: http://www.slotcartalk.com/slotcarta...ek-aka-H-Power
Maybe someone will post John's whereabouts on another thread over there. No link. Just mention the title of his FB page. Slot car motors and other things slots related. If it gets deleted it shows a deep twisted personality disorder in the moderating. When a thread about a particular product gets locked by the maker of said product, there is a problem. It shows that open discussion is not a priority. Something you might find on a N Korean controlled blog.
Any time I had a motor slow drastically during a race it was due to the comm glazing for whatever reason. To extend my armature life, I don't cut the comm if a cleaning is all that's needed. Ralph Thorne sells a comm cleaning stick. Mine is pretty worn down after 25 years of use. Most use was polishing the comm on sealed motors. I would remove the hardware on one side to access the comm.
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A strip of 2000 grit sandpaper from Walmart's automotive dept. & other places does a pretty good comm polish job too. Trinity once sold a brush eraser squared to 36D brush size . With those, one didn't even have remove brush hardware. i saw them but never bought one. I don't expect they're are still available.
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