1960 Corvair Modified..1:32

[strangebrew]

..........................The results of being trapped in the house for awhile longer.......................
Built a chassis using my "go to" 3/64 brass rod. a couple oilite bearings in the rear,
Parma guide, Big Mama braid, Cox crown, NSR pinion & Piranha motor.
Pro-track wheels & home cast urethane tires
I used some electrical hook up wire for the headers, leaving the insulation on.
Painted with some anodizing enamel.
I'm getting pretty lazy, so I just tacked the motor in place with a couple solder spots.
No need for a motor bracket this way. These motors never blow up anyway, right?


Had an early year Corvair 3D printed body laying a round I purchased this winter.
Dug it out & after sanding & sanding & sanding & filling & filling I got something smooth enough to cut up.
Cut the roof & moved it to the rear.
Removed the front of the remaining body & built a styrene firewall
I made a silicone mold & used blue resin pigment in the the casting.
Home printed vinyl & a coat of Ace Hardware clear enamel finish the body.
Interior bars are 3/64 styrene rod.




.............................The End: Brew..........................

[SpeedyNH]

pretty cool, moving the roof back.

[strangebrew]

........................That's the way it was done in the "Olden" 1:1 days SpeedyNH........................

[dw5555]

Now that one actually looks like a corvair.

[chrisguyw]

I like it, one of your better ones in my opinion

A small suggestion if I may............the Cox Crowns are 48P, while the NSR pinions are .5 Module (roughly 50P)............while this is not a massive difference, you will notice an improvement in mesh quality (and efficiency) in using a 48P pinion.

Parma makes perfectly good press on pinions for what you are running, and these are less than $1.50 each................a quiet smooth car is a fast car

Stay Safe
Chris Walker

[strangebrew]

Really!!!..I use 1/8 axles & I ran out of Parma 27T crown gears & getting hard to find.....been using Cox lately.
Only 9T pinions I have now are NSR.....and I've found a several the Parma pinions drilled off center resulting in tight/loose gear meshes.
This is one of the smoother running cars I've built lately...what can I say??
Personally I don't like the Cox crowns nearly as much as Parma & I find the Cox crowns to be noisey with other pinions....... USUALLY...
Anyhow...Learn something every day I guess.

[Courtney s]

As far as the crown gears go give a look to the H&R blue one they are pretty good from what I hear

[Bill from NH]

Great looking mod strangebrew! Cox crowns tend to spin with more runout than the Parmas. Sometimes that & teeth noise can be corrected with a low heat source, such as a cigarette lighter. As others have said, Parma parts are increasingly difficult to find today. I doubt if new product is going out to distributors. It's sad to see a once proud slot car company become dormant.