New Fly slot cars.

do you know of any good website where i can get some slot cars from

thinking of getting my old set out

make sure you type google and not mispell an type goofle like I did.....oh dear

have a look

www.goofle.co.uk

Rhys

To improve the handling on Scalextric cars fit a small magnet as close as possible to the rear axle.

When I was a kid playing with Scalextric at my friends house the cars would always fly off the track and I got annoyed with this and went back to playing with my train set.

However when I was 21 I was given a Scalextric set (at last!) which had a pair of Minis and mounted just in front of the rear (driven) axle was a small but powerful magnet.  What a difference it made in keeping the cars on the track.

You can still tail slide them round the bends though, its a fine balance point as once you go too far the magnet looses its 'grip' on the steel slots and bang you are off with no warning! 

Scalextric web site

http://www.scalextric.co.uk/pages/home.aspx

Andrew

Hornby have improved their tooling on both Scalextric and their model trains by changing production to China and making people redundant over here.  Its cheaper to pay Chinese workers and ship their products half way around the globe and improve the quality, hence why prices haven't really gone up much in the last few years but the quality has.

If your car wobbles it's probably due to poorly fitted tyres or bent axles the latter being caused by impacts with furniture!

You can buy spare tyres, motors, guides, guide braids and axles from model shops.

Andrew