Slot Car Track Router Bit

1. Slot Car Track Router Bits

Shop our selection of Slot cutters, Router Bits in the Tools Department at The Home Depot. Slot cutters - Router Bits - Woodworking Tool Accessories - The Home Depot Store Finder. Yes, do an ebay search for 'slot car track router bit' and buy it from the Canadian guy! Slapshot's high speed steel is fine for cleaning old contact adheasive from the recess, but it would dull quickly if you tried to rout a recess with it. You need a carbide tipped bit!

Thanks for the input. The new bit X2 didnt last a meter thats a couple of feet! Carbide tipped single flute 3mm is all they have, ive asked.thats out of about 15 hardware stores in my localIll get another and try doing it in two passes of 3mm depth at highest rpm. And report on sucsessI also did contacted the harware store today to talk to the rep about this. Often I find there is only one importer of a specific item into this country. Like theres only one importer of slotcars into SA!

I better stop now,im in a bad mood and wont stop bitchin. Single flute is a problem, but if you go SLOW, so the router bit is not being loaded up, then cutting manually you can do it easily.- I routed my first track with a cheap, single flute router bit, 35 metres of cutting. That was one pass, 6.5mm deep, going slow.But twin flute is so much better.

For my next track I bought twin flute, and it felt so much more stable - again, I cut 6.5mm in a single pass, no problem, then loaned those bits to about 5 guys from my club for their tracks.When I began getting some tracks CNC cut, the idiot at the trade machine shop told the CNC shop owner that 3.2m/1/8th' router bits only came single flute. He broke 2 in 7 metres in the 10 minutes before I arrived at the premise to overview it.We rang the trade shop, who still denied such a twin flute bit existed from their european supplier. So I drove home, grabbed both the (used) ones I owned, and went to the trade shop with the CNC shop owner'I bought both these from you last year'oh'So we then cut about 300 metres at 7mm and 8mm onthe CNC machines using my 'used' bits, before they got so blunt we needed a new one.On the CNC machine we only cut about 2.5mm per pass, but were running 25,000rpm, about 10 metres a minute, at 2.6mm cut depth.If you absolutely cannot get twin flute bits in S.A., P.M. Me and I will sort out sending you one or two from my country to you, and you can pay by paypal or Credit card.I can also supply you with 'side-cut' bits to cut braid recessing if you require it. We make them with various widths of side cut, tungsten blade, and a stainless steel guide pin, - usually at 3.16mm diameter.

1: The lane color stripes on commercial tracks look so cool. How can I replicate that?The professional tool to do this is called a 'Beugler', but you can buy the cheap type at about good paint store for $8.

I have used the cheap one many times for striping lanes.2: Where can I buy carbide tipped router bit to cut the braid recess for each lane?Buy a 3/4' carbide tipped cutter and drill and ream a 1/8' in hole and Loctite in a pilot. Make it yourself or buy one. I think Precision Slots Cars offers one?3: Where can I buy braid, both regular and magnetic?ERI Distributing sells braid and JimHT is the source for magnetic braid4: What is a commercial track, like one made by Hasse Nielsen, painted with?Rustoleum two part latex epoxy is a very good track surface, used mostly, stay away from urethane paints. Hasses used to use urethane then switched.

Lay it on with a thick nap roller then go over again with a short nap and you want a nice orange peel finish. Have to watch to do it as continuous as possible so you have 'no parting line' where it meets.

Usually under the bridge.There's many tricks to the trade, PM me if you want any more info. Based on my experience:I used a striping tool - I finally got good results after much experimenting with diluted latex paint.

If I had to do it all again, I would paint the lane colors first, apply correct width masking tape over the lane colors - then paint the track surface. I estimate this would have saved me approximately 45 hours of touch-ups and re-dos.I used a recess routing tool I purchased on eBay.

Worked like a charm! Routing the braid recesses on a four-lane track with a lap length of 80 feet took approximately one hour. Another good reason to buy the little bottles of latex for color lanes. LOL.When you stripe a track, and the first time you clean it with naphtha, you have to be very careful or it will remove the stripes. I think this is why latex is the better choice, once it cures thinners won't touch it. But every time you use thinners on any oil base paint it will remove some color.That's how you remove lettering on old race cars that are sold, you just rub off the lettering you don't want.The cheap striping tool had the same threads as my braid juice bottles, which were like 2 oz. And that was enough to do both sides of a lane on a King track.

The small bottle that comes with it, will probably do a small home track. The other nice feature of the plastic braid juice bottle, I just threw them in the trash and went to the next color.Viscosity of the paint will determine the speed at which you run the tool. One guy in Central PA made a geared down Womp chassis, attached his Buegler to it on pivot and spring and just pulled the trigger on his controller.

Then he reversed the lead wires and did the other side. GREAT IDEA, striping the lanes is backbreaking job.

The 'Buegler' striper is nice and has a pressurization system to keep the paint flowing - very important in lane striping. The big $ for the big 'B' is over $100 and I used to get the Master from JC Whitney, too. Blicks is the last source I have found.

THE same thing is done with the cheap 'Master' by using braid juice/glue bottles. The 'Master comes with a glass bottle and you cannot pinch it to pressure feed the paint.

A trick from Silky and also used by Gerding, who also uses two 'Masters' to do both stripes at the same time.Another plus to the 1 Shot paint is that it leaves a VERY thin coat and no road bumps for start/finish lines.I can make the router bits anytime. Use a flat bottom carbide and a 0.120' drill blank instead of an axle - less binding on your 1/8' (0.125') slot. 1/2' or 1/4' shank?

Slot Car Track Router Bits

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Rick,The point about 1 Shot paint is that it has a high level of pigment, so a single coat of paint is completely opaque. Did you find that to be the case with the latex striping?Some terrific info in this thread, guys. Thanks!Greg,I am very aware of 1 Shot, very expensive too, and I assure you with 1 Shot, every time you clean it for months after, it will take some stripe with it.And yes, the latex gave a very nice opaque one coat stripe, as bright as any paint I ever used.PS: Zip has posted the right striping tool. It used to come with all the wheels in one kit and it was all pot metal, the later ones are a plastic tower.