Tyco Slot Car Springs
 

unlike the tomy afx springs they actually fit. you can still steer after installing them even!!!

best of all you dont have to cut them!!

bump stikity bump stikity bump.


seriously if you see these pick them up. they fit perfectly.

What am I looking for? Do they sell these seperate? Or do I have to buy whole car? Gotta a pic?



silla

umm the package is at home but ill try to take a pic if i remember. they come in a separate package. 4springs in one package for $1.50 at a hobby shop that sells microsizers for 40$ so you may find them cheaper even.

the shop gets six little blisters in one big pack that hangs on a rack with red outline.

they are the right amount of resistance as well.


also they are roughly the same dimensions as the afx springs but not as stiff.

Thanks hogjowlz... $1.50 is pretty cheap. If you could snap off a pic of the package when you get home that would be great. Thanks man, and great find.



silla

no prob. im looking for them online but no dice so far.

they come packaged like this except they are springs insted of tires. same series name and stuff.



http://www.tbaytel.net/~kburns/TYCO/...ar%20Tires.jpg

Did a search and found this site... Have to go bout halfway down but there is a listing for TYC6596 CH & HP2 STOCK PICKUP SHOE SPRINGS-4, is this what you have? They list here for 1.80

Here is the Link

i called my old lady and had her read it to me it is curve hugger hp2. im sure the others would work(maybe they are stiff like tomy). these are pretty good tho. they help in turning for sure. now i have to be going really really fast to flip in a turn.

Does tyco still make slot cars?

Interesting note: Tomy owns the license to make the AF/X slot car sets now. (they have for several years...) I guess they just love little cars or something!

don't we all?

In a forum full of BS threads, this stands out as a truly informative one.
Thanks guys, great info!

One question, do they affect your steering?

All the ball point pen springs I tried reduced the steering effectiveness quite a bit, presumably due to the steel content in the springs.
With these springs being smaller, I am hoping that they are being held further away from the magnetic fields produced by the steering coils.

they pretty much dont effect steering at all. they do keep my car from flipping at high gs tho. it also runs stuff over smoothly and it doesnt bounce as much at high speeds. i have also tried tomy springs and they are too tight and make steering hard.

That's what I liked about using springs.
I've been using the soft stabilus until I could find out where to get springs that would work. It's been okay.

i was comparing a stock front end with the spring loaded one and the stock one feels like it is dead.

you got 3 pair for 1.50?? can you get more, ill send you a SASE and .75 if you sell me a pair (just one pair) i realise these are not machinable mail, so ill add another stamp to it, and write non-machinable on the envelope i send. think about it, while i go check my LHS ;)

you get 2 pair for 1.50. i have enough to do all of my cars at the moment. i think the shop had more tho. why dont you goto a hobby shop that sells slot cars?

Because Tyco hasn't made slot cars in years according to my LHS. The stuff you're getting is NOS. (New Old Stock, not the giggle gas.....)

exactly, i printed out the picture of yours im going to take it to my LHS (hobby town) to see if they have any.

hmm. i should corner the market :)

Tyco/Matel makes Hotwheels brand slot cars.

I got the tyco springs. I first installed them in the same spot that the questformadness website shows and they didn't even come close to touching the chassis. Then I put them on the rear of the spindle and then it would hold up the chassis. Is this the correct spot? Steering seemed fine going right, but slow when going left. Is there a top and bottom to the spring?

i went to my LHS they had slot car suspension springs, but they didnot sell them seperatly.. they were 12.99 it came with a nice hop up kit fo rslot cars tho (motor brushes wheels ect.) but still 12.99 is too much for just the springs.. any ideas?? maybe you could go buy me a package and send them to me? that would be awesome, u knwo if you walking by the store one day justgo and pick a package up, ill send you a SASE and 2.00 then you could just put the envelope in the mail box, no rushor special shipping, just @ yoru convience no special trips, what do you think?

heres the tyco spring thread. and no im not going to pick them up and sell them to everyone on this board. i gave you the info to go find them already.

Don't feel bad.
Just watch what happens when you mention Cat antennas, Ugh!

Anyone tried Modifier springs? There's a set that's smaller than the originals and it comes with springs that look to be about the right size, but I don't want to spend $4 just for it to not work.

i DID try to find them..as was poited out earlier these are not somethign everyoen can get b/c that are NOS. i just wanted you to pick some up for me next time you were out and about.. but alrighty.. and to add, unles sy our getting e-mails, i seem to be the only one asking for you to pick me up some.. id have done the same for you..

someone told me they used mofier springs from an accord.. mayeb ill go try it out. worse case scenario i have to return the modifier to the store.

you could always try that site somebody linked to earlier.

Doing a search on google I can only find the newer pick up springs 440 X2 and the are completely different spring type

http://www.allhobbystore.com/schematics/t440x2sc.html

are those in fact the same springs?

I edited my previous post from what I can tell they are the closest. It seems Tyco redesigned their pick up springs

http://www.allhobbystore.com/schematics/t440x2sc.html

These are what the new ones look like

"CH & HP2 STOCK PICKUP SHOE SPRINGS" CH for Curve hugger and HP2 if those are an old design it would explain why they only come up on one site.

those arnet the same, not even close.. these springs are actually for suspension on these slot cars.. those are for the pickup shoe s(the part that touches the metal track thingies)

From the same site, the LIFELIKE pick-up springs may do the trick.http://www.allhobbystore.com/schemat...felikesch.html

Yeah I'm thinking about ordering some other pick up springs made by various brands and see if any of them work. They're only a couple bucks so if they don't work out it's no big deal.

JTM I know those springs are completely different but those are the only TYCO pick up springs I can find on-line

it was my understanding (when i talked to the guy @ the hobby shop) onthe slot cars these springs were used for the same purpose (suspension) not for pickup. but i see the package is labled p-up (pick up?)

By suspension, he probably meant that the springs are used to keep the pick-up shoes in contact with the track.

Or, maybe he knew nothing about slot cars.

im thinking the second.. i said slot cars and you could see him straining to think of what it was. and they have like a HUGE 1/24 scale slot car track in the store hahahahaha