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Posts: 715 (05/08/08 01:10 PM) Home Racing Guru! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None You might have seen I had this coming in my "Billboard" thread. Here it is. I still have to find a place for it and figure how I want to mount it but it's really cool. You can set it to have the lights work a bunch of different patterns. I just recorded some of them. It looks a lot better than it recorded too. Being so close to it must have tricked the camcorder somewhat. The file is 30meg. You'll probably be better off to rt click and save target as and open it from your computer. http://www.75th-meu.com/RCtrucks2/SlotCars/videos/citgo.mpg I took these pictures too because I know somebody was going to ask for them...LOL My Slot Car Site Last Edited By: MGS 75thMEU 05/09/08 06:17 PM. Edited 2 times.
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Posts: 717 (05/08/08 09:14 PM) Home Racing Guru! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I built a "Roof" to put over the top of the roof on one of my old school control towers and installed the Sign on it. Here's the video of what it looks like on my cpu desk. You'll see what it looks like on the track when I do my new videos of the layout this weekend. http://www.75th-meu.com/RCtrucks2/SlotCars/videos/citgo2.mpg My Slot Car Site
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Posts: 718 (05/08/08 09:41 PM) Home Racing Guru! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Some pictures My Slot Car Site
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Posts: 10830 (05/09/08 01:44 PM) The Lazy Administrator Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	That is one slick outfit!!! "They Didn't Say You Couldn't" - Smokey Yunick
MGS 75thMEU		#4	[-]
Posts: 720 (05/09/08 01:56 PM) Home Racing Guru! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I had to feel my way through building the "framework" to hold the Billboard, electronics and battery pack. It's here in pictures on my site http://www.75th-meu.com/SlotCars77.htm My Slot Car Site
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Posts: 724 (05/09/08 06:17 PM) Home Racing Guru! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Here are a few pictures of it on the layout. My Slot Car Site
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Posts: 728 (05/10/08 01:12 AM) Home Racing Guru! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	1 more My Slot Car Site
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Posts: 731 (05/10/08 08:24 PM) Home Racing Guru! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I've got 16 of these Lionel Dbl Spotlights. I've decided to cut the bases off some of them and slide them into either brass or styrene tube, drill a hole in the roofs and seats of some grandstands and put them through the holes. I can cut the length of the tube to set the height of the spots so that they point right on the track(the angle of the lights is not adjustable). I'm also going to get away without running the wiring under the benchwork for the ones on this end. it can run right around the back of the safety walls. I like the thought that my layout is so long and thin, that I can run part in the dark and the other end in the light. My Slot Car Site
MAINEiac Slot racer.northeastslotcars		#8	[-]
Posts: 16 (05/11/08 10:30 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Like the sign Bill, keep us posted on the lights.
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Posts: 733 (05/11/08 10:54 AM) Home Racing Guru! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	will do. My Slot Car Site
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Posts: 744 (05/15/08 08:22 PM) Home Racing Guru! Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I got some Evergreen styrene tube that the light pole would fit insde so it would reach all the way to the ground from above the roof of the grandstand. I was lucky, they were 14" long and 7" was just right for the length, giving me 2 pieces from each. All I need to do is paint them Gloss Black and they're ready to put in the hole I drilled in the corner where the loudspeaker was. I have 5 grandstands on the far end. I think I'll put Spotlights on the outside of the 2 end grandstands pointing down the straights and spots on each corner of the center of the middle grandstand and point them on the turn. My Slot Car Site Last Edited By: MGS 75thMEU 05/15/08 08:27 PM. Edited 1 times.

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