I'm having to learn streaming, like it or not, Rog. Unfortunately, you will probably miss 5 Cup races that will stream on Amazon Prime. Those are the only ones I know I will be able to see at this point since we already have it. Here is the 2025 schedule with the broadcasters listed.
I need to look up in the overhead in the shop because I think we still have our old track like that. I believe ours was a figure 8. These are the larger cars as I remember. We should have an AFX track also. Probably find the mice and rats made chew toy out of them.
I had this built as a figure 8 a few months ago, CJet. I didn't want a bridge. Needed some more straights to make a decent oval track. The Eldon cars are 1/32 scale. Non magnet downforce HO cars seem to run well on this track after I played for awhile. They slide like dirt cars so if I ever get this thing done it will be painted up to look like a dirt track. I have lots of dirt track bodied slot cars, and would like to build some more. Pretty big ideas to play with cars designed for 8 year olds. Humidity is hard on this stuff, so the tracks and cars you have may be in rough shape. Mice may have not liked chewing on the stuff at least.
Exactly what I am using, Jim. I dug out the other by-pass door slab. The first one is the table top to the shop table the track is on. I got the legs out of the scrap at work. Legs fold up like a normal banquet table. Got a bunch of other hollow core door slabs but they are all in use as shelves or not in a place where I can get them out easy.
You'd think 2 am would be a better time to do that sort of thing.
Yeah I think maintenance would have been scheduled at low demand times, Chris. The woman I talked to the second time did say they weren't aware of an outage, Rog. They are probably mad we dropped the TV package and showed us no matter what we stream, it is still their internet that supplies it. Found a deal with Fubo today that will save about 40 bucks a month that will carry most the stations NASCAR is on and it even includes Colorado Rockies baseball that Loree wants. I know, the Rockies are the worst team in baseball, but we went to so many live games when Mom was still alive we just kept following them and went to many more after she passed.
Nope, Aaron. There is Fox, FS1, NBC, Amazon Prime, USA, TNT/Max all carrying NASCAR racing at various times throughout the season. Peacock carries some reruns and most of Dirty Mo's media shows which are Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s company shows. Now far as streaming goes, It is a giant pain in the @$$ for me---LOL! We had no choice to go streaming though since the overpriced provider went all streaming too. No competition out here besides dish and they cost more and they wanted to charge me 2 subscriptions since my shop is not attached to the house. Sure would be simple to go back to just 4 networks and all programming be on them---LOL! That was back in the day when I was the remote though! And just like all cable and streaming packages there are 15 stations we will use and 200 we will never look at!
Pretty crazy how folks are supposed to be able to afford that kind of price increases, Lorna. We get stuck paying for a lot of crap we will never use.
I guess streaming is our TV future whether we like it or not, Rog. Too much money to be made by all those networks to stop it now! Good luck trying to learn it!Going to check in to some streaming stuff though I know nothing about it and hate the hi tech crap to start with so going in with a bad attitude won't be a fun experience.
I blew our bundle deal 10-15 years ago when I dropped the land line, Jim. It was up to 125 or so and we were getting along with cell phones ok. It did drop the price for TV and internet to around 98 bucks which I felt was ridiculous then! It had gotten back up to 198 when we decided that was enough. That 100% increase was probably our punishment for dropping the bundle back then. If we go with Fubo it will still save a little over 40 bucks a month. Sounds like you getting all 3 for $188.72 is a bargain compared to rates out here.
That's a good video, CJet. Thanks for posting it! I don't know when I will use this stuff, but it will be good to have it on hand if I get my act together on a truck in my shop!
