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July 2007
This chassis is the latest
evolution of the new ISO chassis made by Picard.
Comments, Modifcations made by Flynn: This chassis runs as good as or better
than any 100% gravity car in the collection. I’d say it’s a bit
of a prize. It’s quite amazing how well it holds the track. One would
think it had magnatraction.
-- The rears are .440 LAW.
--Gears are BSRT 7/23. F
--Fronts are from Toybaron. The fronts had black rubber that was a few thousands
small so I had some Wizzard .375s.
--The lexan was from an eBay buy of a BSRT G-3R Super Stock. It’s kind
of funky but works exactly right on the slightly wide shaker plate.
March 2007
R. Picard.....Here are some pics of my Riggen for you and your Readers rides. I "enhanced" my Riggen slightly - but keeping in the style of the period in which these cars ran. I noticed many vintage cars with the black painted wheel centers and decided to do this to mine.
The car needed a driver,
so I carefully opened the cockpit and added a driver I created based on the
Aurora Super II guy. This one is resin - but I am thinking of making some as
thin vacuforms with a resin helmet. I added a roll bar next. Then I had some
old AutoWorld decals I added to the side to make it look more like a ferrari
racer. The finishing touch was to touch up the brass pins with some body color
paint.
January
2007
Hot. All the brass has been painted BLACK--pin tubed section modified, HOT arm rewind and helper magnets. Rear axle improved with "boss" made out of brush tube barrels!
Special mostly
"stock" RiggenHO Porsche for a short track...
Custom painted body by Noose....stock HT-50. Brass fronts, BSRT rears, Mushroom
cap
Pin Tube Shaker. Sticks like glue, looks GREAT.
November/December 2006
Young Flynn at Work: (To
fix the track after Dad crashes!)
Anyone know of a Lexan version of the famous CEMENT TRUCK? We need to get this
body on a Riggen chassis!
More Flynn modifications:
Red Ferrari has nice body work, latest Yellow Porsche has an
older Tyco brass can (stronger magnets) as well as hot Wizzard arm, braided
guide flag assembly, and RiggenHO "Mushroom Caps" front weights..
September 2006
T Flynn RiggenHO 3000 custom mods....
Above: RiggenHo chassis with reworked front end and taped AFX 917 body, painted
club kit lexan body
Below: Second version guide flag with SCX braid, highly reccomended. Also, FUN
with magnets...
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Hand built by J Saccomanno from one piece of 025 brass sheet--drilled, cut, filed and hand bent. Square tube added for motor support. The way they used to build them! BSRT G+ front end, Tomy Turbo motor. Raced in the Pocket Rocket Brass Wars race 2006.
November 2005
Nice job on the Ferrari
612 by a racer in Germany. Built from a RiggenHO Club Kit.
Thanks Hans M.
October 2005
Our friends over at Rabbit
Racing produced this "Riggen Rabbit".
This is a super fast, highly tuned car....now show us yours!
Features:
--pin tube chassis, brass pins and parchute tape
--weighted chassis at sides
--reinforced rear uprights to assist consistency in gear change
--Rabbit silicon rear tires on Delrin rims
--custom Rabbit brass independant fronts
--custom guide flag, desoldered braid pick ups
--pin style guide flag
--lead wires soldered to brass strip and direct connect to brush tubes
September 2005
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Great Correspondence:
-----Original Message-----
From: G, Jerry
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 2:07 PM
To: ron@riggenho.com
Subject: Replacement Parts
Greetings,
First awesome site!!!
In the late 70’s I purchased a Riggen’s HO slot car at a slot shop
for $3.89 (I still have the card board from inside the plastic box).
At the time I also purchased a few extra motors, guide flags, brushes, etc in
hope of keeping the car running for a long time.
Well here is it 2005 I’m 44 yrs old and my son’s 12, 8 and 6 get
an interest in slot car racing so I pull out my old 4 lane Model Motoring track.
I still have a few cars with the set that have been packed away since the 70’s,
I also purchase a few more from a local hobby shop to have some modern cars.
We do some racing and the kids want different cars so we start looking on Ebay
for cars and dang if don’t see NEW Riggen cars for sale.
So I decide to dig out my old Riggen car I still have all the spares and low
and behold it works flawless the first time.Well all most flawless the foam
tires are junk and all the car does is spin and slide around (kids laugh hysterically)
well I ‘spooned’ on a set of silicon’s we just bought and
I proceeded to lay down some laps that come pretty close to the new cars, (kids
now stop laughing at take the “old” car seriously).
Anyway way cool you guys decided to bring back the HO line I had a lot of fun
with that car back in the day. At the tracks people hated it when I pulled it
out to do some racing, it was a damn fast car then, I had spent quite a bit
of time setting it up just right.
Well I never really liked the body I had on the Riggen car I can’t even
identify it, so I thought hmmm I wonder if I could get a new body, so I looked
up the WEB site through Ebay and found exactly what I needed.
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August 2005
Here is a the
reprint of a mail from HOWORLD.Net, HO
Slot Car Online Magazine ("Voice of the People, Comments
from our Readers" section)
Please check their site for a nice article!
I never owned an original, so I can't compare them. I really like the new ones. I have to say that when I first received my new ones I was pretty disappointed. I didn't care for the wiring setup, the body mount system and most of all the gears. (In fairness, the company did tell me that the gears were basically worthless - they were made to be similar to the originals because the new car was originally intended as a collector, not a racer.) With a little work, however, the cars came good and I am very happy with them. On longer tracks they will outrun a Fray car. On tighter tracks it might be a different story, but I haven't had a chance to prove it out yet. They are quite powerful and require a lot of finesse to drive. I did get the body mounts to work fairly well, but I think if I get real serious with the car I will solder a tube to the plate and use pins in the body, like a Lexan magnet car. The wiring is fine, you just have to get it right. I ran two races with mine, I was knocked around quite a bit in them, and there were no issues. For gearing I ended up using stock AFX G+ gears. They were an easy swap. Tomy G+, AFX Turbo, Wizzard, etc. gears will work also with a little more effort. I also have my cars set up with Wizzard LAW tires and narrowed Wizzard T-Jet independent fronts.
The bottom line is that they are neat little cars, and, with some effort, they are great, (less effort than I put into a T-Jet to make it race ready, by the way.) I'll tell you, mine were sent to me to test and were not really mine to begin with. By the time I was done with them I liked them so much that I offered to buy and keep them!
Does that help?
Frank
(ed. note 09/09/2005 : Frank raced a Series 100 car. His suggestions and some of the improvements he made were incorporated into our Series 1000 and 2000 chassis'! The gears have been seriously upgraded -- for those who like a little Hypoid" set up, use Tomy SuperG+, other sets work very well too -- and we are in the works with a pin tube chassis...)
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The three pics below feature RiggenHO owner mods:
Delrin hubs, improved lead wires, shaker cut out to lower motor (improves center
of gravity) and axle bushings. (LB)
June 2005
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RiggenHO w 20t
brass sintered gear, 8t pin. Set Screw
rears and inde low fr end. Racers Edge rewind green
wire arm. Smooth and Fast. (RB)
RiggenHO w AFX
20/8 Gear Set. Brass Spacers.
Very tight drivetrain. (RB)
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Vintage Cobramite
"Scratchmite" with RiggenHO parts. Scratchmite has drop arm guide
flag retainer.
Guide flag, set screw rear wheels, Racer's Edge rewind
green wire arm, AFX G+ 20/8 Gear Set
4,0 weighted independant front end. (RB) (more info on Cobramite here)
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June 25, NJ Hobby
Race Day winner:
Pretty simple set up: Patriot gear set, home made inde fronts, Sili-sponge rears....
