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Model Forum / Radio Controlled / Land Models / February 2008Temporary Track
I have a large parking lot available to me to use for R/C racing. How can I set up a temporary track for this cheaply? Thanks. Mike D. > I have a large parking lot available to me to use for R/C racing. How can > I set up a temporary track for this cheaply? Thanks. > > Mike D. We use 3/4 inch PVC 10 foot lengths, "swimmie noodles" and homemade sandbags: http://pages.ripco.net/~kenji/strictlyrc/asphalt_layouts/photos/may2007/ The PVC is from a home center. The noodles are one dollar each bought in bulk at a dollar store. they are 4 feet long. I have about 70 of them. Sandbags are made from ripstop dropcloth, ziploc bags, pea gravel, and duct tape. You cut a 30 inch square piece of dropcloth. Fill a large ziploc bag with pea gravel. Place the filled ziploc bag onto the cutout piece of dropcloth and fold it over. Wrap it with duct tape. You place the sandbags on top of the track barrier where you need it to be held down. Make sure the bag's edges don't hang into the driving area. We take a 110 foot by about 50 foot area. It gets swept with two push brooms. We lay our track out. Put up the EZ-UP, run power to the EZ-UP. We use a 3.5 gallon bugsprayer, the handpump kind. I use dollar store pancake syrup. One bottle of syrup to 3 gallons of warm water. We then spray the concoction in all the turns. All of the above get's stored in an old church bus that stays on the lot. We use a computer with the I-LapRC Timing System, and we use ALycat race software. http://www.rclapcounter.com http://www.alycat.com From the time we pull up in the parking lot and break out the brooms until the time we are ready to race is about 2.5 hours. >> I have a large parking lot available to me to use for R/C racing. How can >> I set up a temporary track for this cheaply? Thanks. [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > pancake syrup. One bottle of syrup to 3 gallons of warm water. We then > spray the concoction in all the turns. Why? > All of the above get's stored in an old church bus that stays on the lot. > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > From the time we pull up in the parking lot and break out the brooms > until the time we are ready to race is about 2.5 hours. Sounds great! ~snipped for brevity~ >> We take a 110 foot by about 50 foot area. It gets swept with two push >> brooms. We lay our track out. Put up the EZ-UP, run power to the [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Why? Provides better traction... some tracks use cheap grape soda (diluted) for the same reason - makes everything sticky! Dirk > > We take a 110 foot by about 50 foot area. It gets swept with two push > > brooms. We lay our track out. Put up the EZ-UP, run power to the EZ-UP. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Why? why what? I said alot in that paragraph. >>> We take a 110 foot by about 50 foot area. It gets swept with two push >>> brooms. We lay our track out. Put up the EZ-UP, run power to the EZ-UP. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > I said alot in that paragraph. Why the syrup? > >>> We take a 110 foot by about 50 foot area. It gets swept with two push > >>> brooms. We lay our track out. Put up the EZ-UP, run power to the EZ-UP. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Why the syrup? It's only a buck and four of them do our whole track. It's alot of corn syrup for a dollar. It also seems to work better than 3 liter bottles of pop mixed with water. >>>>> We take a 110 foot by about 50 foot area. It gets swept with two push >>>>> brooms. We lay our track out. Put up the EZ-UP, run power to the EZ-UP. [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > It also seems to work better than 3 liter bottles of pop mixed with > water. Better at doing what? What is the purpose of the pop or syrup? >>>>>> We take a 110 foot by about 50 foot area. It gets swept with two push >>>>>> brooms. We lay our track out. Put up the EZ-UP, run power to the [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Better at doing what? What is the purpose of the pop or syrup? This was answered 20 minutes after you first asked by !bungle. The pop or syrup or anything else like that is applied to the track for extra traction. HTH Cheers Dre >>>>>>> We take a 110 foot by about 50 foot area. It gets swept with two push >>>>>>> brooms. We lay our track out. Put up the EZ-UP, run power to the [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > This was answered 20 minutes after you first asked by !bungle. Is !bungle KK or Kenji? I read and reread all the posts, but did not see an answer or bungle. > The pop or syrup or anything else like that is applied to the track for > extra traction. > > HTH > > Cheers Dre > >>>>>>> We take a 110 foot by about 50 foot area. It gets swept with two push > >>>>>>> brooms. We lay our track out. Put up the EZ-UP, run power to the [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > > > Cheers Dre FWIW, KK is Kenji > >>>>> We take a 110 foot by about 50 foot area. It gets swept with two push > >>>>> brooms. We lay our track out. Put up the EZ-UP, run power to the EZ-UP. [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Better at doing what? What is the purpose of the pop or syrup? If you build a track on a parking lot there's lots of dust and particles. Even after sweeping and/or pressure washing it. Spraying a sugar water mixture on the road course gives you traction. Without it the track has inconsistencies. Cars will spin out with the rear ends swinging around. The light coating of sugar water is a night and day kind of difference. After spraying and letting it dry, cars hook up. For just bashing no compound is just fine, but for racing you'll need to spray. We even use traction compound on our tires even after spraying the track. |
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