--- Colin Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are these little model cars or ones you sit in and steer? They are little model cars, the big one's ( the kid sits in ) are called soapbox derby, not to be confused with the soap BARS, ( where I wouldn't go for a drink, but that's just personal preference--this is one of those puns that gets me in so much trouble. I'll bail out now.)
> We used to have the ones you sit in over in the UK in the 50's - > called soap > box carts made from a crate and using wheels from > prams/buggies/strollers or > whatever you call them and the races were soap box derbys. Yeah we have soapbox derby, you pretty well had to go to Ohio to get involved, there just wasn't anything local....kinda like playing HG. > On the original subject of Teflon (is it available in the UK?) Beats Me. I would think so, If I can find my tube I broadcast the brand-name it might facilitate your google. > scraped a little "lead" off a soft > 6B pencil, carefully placed it where the keys pass through the keybox > and > worked the keys a few times. A real miracle! Back to smooth running > now ... and I got through the spot. Ahh, scrape it off the pencil, I have tried just a soft pencil directly on the shafts where they pass thru the holes with mixed results. Some people don't like graphite because it gets knocked off and you get black ( or very dark grey) smudges on your hands. I never minded being a dirty hurdy-gurdy player myself. but many are more high-brow.... Teflon powder is white, and if it smudges, I can't tell. I'm really interested in that ski wax, but may not be able to get it locally, It only snows two or three times a year and you could stick you hand straight down in it and not touch it with your knuckles, So you can understand why the industry doesn't boom much around here. N0w if it's WATER ski wax.....hmmn > > Lots of questions and a few requests to "have a go" afterwards. > Nobody there had ever seen one before. > Funny that after all my years of playing in front of people, I was > really > nervous and worried about "letting the side down" but I now feel a > real "part of the community". Well! Congratulations Colin and welcome.
