We have received an excellent emails form one of our customers who has gone the extra yard and managed to digitalise the new James bond car. Mr Rumley-Dawsons detailed email is below.
We hope it can assist anyone who wanted to get the car running on your digital track.
You may be interested to know that I have just digitised one of the new C3091A James Bond Aston Martin DB5 saloon cars. Although the car contains extra gadgets such as a working ejector seat + villain and pop-up rear bullet-proof screen, both of which have giant internal springs to operate them. There is still plenty of room to insert an F1 chip C7005 glued under the back seat of the car, which seems to operate the vehicle perfectly, just like all our other digital cars. As this car has a long central transmission shaft, the LED emitter cannot be inserted in the usual position just behind the power pickup braid plate. Therefore, I have filed down a small recess on the front of the braid plate, which exactly fits the LED, which is then glued into place with a small amount of Araldite (Rapid Set). As the chip is located so far back from the motor and LED, I had to un-solder all the protruding wires off the chip and replace them with longer stiff wires. The great advantage of using stiff wires in tiny circuits is the fact that you can bend them around corners and under other objects and they will stay in place, unlike the original wires on the chips which do not stay in place and just bounce back making it difficult to re-assemble the vehicle without getting the extra wires trapped between the bodywork and chassis. It is quite a challenge to decide how to guide all the extra wires through the inside of the car and of course you do really have to be very very accurate and competent with a mini soldering iron. Some websites have commented that it is not advisable to digitalise this car, because unlike all other Scalextric cars, it has extra gadgets inside and it is too complicated, and of course some diehard collectors who never run their cars, will probably say that it de-values the car. But to see digital cars whizzing along, changing lanes and partaking in pit stop manoevres is really great. After many years of running Scalextric analogue cars since about the mid 1960s, now that we having experienced digital racing, it is like comparing chalk and cheese. There is just no comparison. DIGITAL is so so much better. It is more fun and much more exciting and you need to be very much more skilful.
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