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Re:other upcoming events
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Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:54:24 GMT
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On Mon, February 28, 2005 1:41 pm, David Koudys said:
In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang wrote:
April - rtlToronto/live3: RC Racing.  Everyone brings some garden hose to lay
out a race track on an indoor surface.  John and Derek design the track.  We all
bring 8475/8366 RC Racers.  Channels 1/2 are for racing, Channel 3 for testing.
We could even do this at the trainshow in an empty area of the show.  I really
want to have POV wireless camera on this one.

I'm in.  We should be able to design our own car chassis' around the
controller/motors/etc but the resulting vehicle would have to fit some sort of
weight/size restriction (or I could just bring my 8448, though wouldn't win 1st
palce for speed, it will be the best looking thing there...)


If you really want to do something beyond a simple RC race, you could have a
"minimum weight" so everyone would have to build up their cars a bit (then Dave's
8448 could compete).  If the minimum weight was 1 RC Racer + 1 pound, people could
do a whole lot.  Like adding spinning spikes to the wheels...  :)

That could be cool.



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  Re: rtlToronto19: Balance of Power and other upcoming events
 
(...) Here's the thing on the extended loop--we're not bringing it to NMRA. When Frank called last week, I mentioned that we needed a 10x10 area, for that's the layout we're bringing to NMRA. If we want to get a larger layout together, the (...) (20 years ago, 28-Feb-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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