Building a track for the micro-t
Posted on Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 at 2:28 am by Jeff HoySomebody recently found my site by searching for how much it would cost to build a track for a Losi Micro-T in a basement. My quick and cheap answer: nothing. If you have some old cardboard boxes, wooden dowels, a roll of duct tape, and other typical crap that people have laying around in their basement then you can make an off-road style track for essentially no cost. You can cut some circles out and paint them to use as corner dot and use some tape, string, dowels, or tubing to mark your lanes. Have some three-ring binders left over from school? Instant ramp. You can form jumps, bumps, banked turns, and more with a little work and creativity.
If your basement is unfinished, a concrete floor can make for a great racing surface. Carpet can also work well, as long as it’s not super plush or shag. Vinyl, tile, and wood floors are a little too slick for micros, unless you’re interested in practicing your drifting.
The bottom line here is to use your imagination. Go through your junk and find stuff that will work for what you want to do. You don’t really need to buy anything to make a track for your Micro-T.
I may expand on this in the future. Maybe I’ll create some templates or something for jump designs that people can easily put together.
