I’ve got a fair chunk of spare time with uni holidays so I dug out some of my old toys to see if they still work. I searched for my radio control cars only to find that one has gone missing and I’d lost a controller. I used to have a Kyosho Ultima RB but could only find my Tamiya TGX. Anyway I hit up ebay and picked up another controller. It’s been about two years since I’ve played around with r/c cars so I gathered up my bits and was reminded that even though they’re nitro you still need 12xAA batteries for the radio equipment. My fuel was still old and everyone says that you shouldn’t use old fuel but eh, so long as it’s flammable and oily I couldn’t see it doing any damage. Surprisingly I was able to fire it up without too much trouble. It was way out of tune, needed to lean out the air/fuel mixture a fair bit but once it was tuned it was running sweet. I forgot how fast these little things are!

Whilst I was searching for my cars I found a big box of AFX slot car track. It didn’t take much contemplating to set it up and have a go. The track was pretty rusty so I had to run some sandpaper all over it to clean it for the car connections. I have a mix of about 8 cars but half of them are broken so I hacked them up a bit and swapped a few parts to get 3 working.