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            Track Building -&#160;
            BANKING
            How can a banking be designed to avoid cars launching (and crashing into one another)?
            
            
        
        
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Track Building Part 7 - Reduced Track Power&#160;
 
Page updated January 2009 minor updates
December 2007 (sections on line diodes added)
December 2005 (sections on reduced voltage added)



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Why do you want Reduced Track Power?
A fair question - lots of track building effort goes into getting enough power. There are two main reasons for wanting less
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&#160;TRACK CONSTRUCTION Part&#160;6


    
        
            
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            Tape and braid - the same width but very different in resistance
            
        
    

Page updated January 2009, minor additions November 2009
Part 5 of this series of articles&#160;says what should be connected to where - and gives a simple guide to how to wire it. This page...]]></description>
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            TRACK CONSTRUCTION Part 5
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            Track Construction-Part 3
            Painting and Laying the Braid / Tape
            
            
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            TRACK CONSTRUCTION - Part 2
            
            page updated June&#160; 2009
            
        
        
            Cutting The Slot
        
        
            
            
            
            
            
            
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TRACK CONSTRUCTION Part&#160; 1&#160;described how to build the surface of the track. Now for the vital matter of deciding...]]></description>
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TRACK CONSTRUCTION Part One


    
        
            
            
            
            
            
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            Assembling the "UK Black" Track
            
        
    


by Chris Frost
Updated April 2009

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Right then, you’ve got this great track&#160; design, designed with the help of (or in spite of)&#160;the track design web pages. How do you go...]]></description>
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TRACK DESIGN&#160;
by Chris Frost



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This is an edited version of 2 articles originally published in BSCRA’s "Slot Car Racing News" magazine.&#160;&#160;
Building a slot car track requires a great deal of work and once built the track will probably be used for several years. Its much easier and cheaper to change a design on paper than to rebuild part of the track, so its well worth spending some time getting the design right before you start building.
So is this going to enable you to...]]></description>
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