Thread: Play room time at Dave's house

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So what's the status on the slot car track, Dave? Did you make a final decision on the scale and layout yet?

Still too busy to get down there to work on it, hopefully I can get back to it soon!!! Probably going to be HO, makes for a lot more track length in the room I have!

What a cool project sorry I missed this thread at it's start. And how kool are those 1:24 slot cars! My wife thinks I'm a kid, because I still love this stuff!

I started back into slot cars, then got out of it. Ya really need the dedicated room, like a basement. The WHOLE basement. I scored a 4X lane setup, but never had three other people. I also had a cliffhanger, it takes special cars. I ended up giving the cliffhanger to my nephew, the 4X setup I resold on eBay. Still have a good assortment of transams though.

I hate to even post this, but my new distraction is legos. The mindstorm kits actually have functional PLCs (programmable logic controllers) with motor and switches. Way cool.

I use to teach science, architecture, robotics and engineering to kids using a lego lab back in the mid 90's. Our lab had over $40,000.00 worth of lego consisting of gears, sensors, motors computer interfaces, axles, pulleys, blocks, beams, etc... It was pretty fun then, better than any erectorset at the time!

Originally Posted by stovens

I use to teach science, architecture, robotics and engineering to kids using a lego lab back in the mid 90's. Our lab had over $40,000.00 worth of lego consisting of gears, sensors, motors computer interfaces, axles, pulleys, blocks, beams, etc... It was pretty fun then, better than any erectorset at the time!

And you got paid real money to play with lego?

What a cool job!
I'm envious!