Derby Talk

I think a 13 car round robin would work well. That would be 78 heats. Give the winning car 2 points & the 2nd place car 1 point. Total points wins.

OMG. Are you kidding me? Is that what that threaded part is opposite the blade on my radial arm saw. I'm about to take a 1/2 day off work & check my saws right now. This will make my life much easier this year. Thanks for sharing.

I don't think you could keep the sawzall perpendicular to the block to make the cuts.

Though, if you are looking for the lightest block, you may just have to weigh a whole bunch of unopened boxes to see which is lightest. I wouldn't image that the weight of the wheels, axles, rule sheet and sticker decals would vary by much. :mrgreen: I take my scale to the scout shop & weigh th...

Final note: A few weeks ago I was comparing the weight of "out of the box" blocks (I couldn't resist...) and found that out of a group of 5 there were 4 very similar and 1 MUCH heavier, nearly double the others. Not sure how common that is, but keep that in mind as you seek to add more wo...

FAST Racing wrote:10X,

Which picture of the 6 shown are you referring to???

I was referring to the 3rd picture from the top.

Is that heat shrink tubing? If so, what is it used for?

Now that is an interesting idea. I could have "This side up for pack race" & "This is up for districts". I wonder if someone would consider that 2 cars.

Here is my issue. The district track is a thirty something feet best track. I really want a rail rider for this track, but our pack track is not so nice. I'm afraid that a rail rider will catch on the local track & we'll never make it to districts. Our den impounds the cars after the race, so I ...

I found that folks that know how to turn axles in a lathe aren't real chatty about how to do it. I think that is because they spend many hours trying to perfect it. Anyway here is what I did. I had an extra dremel tool flex shaft. Similar to this. http://www.dremel.com/en-us/attachments-and-accessor...

After looking at the race video closely, I see we are consistently behind in the downhill section. Our car really flew on the flat. This was on a 48ft track. We would not have finished 2nd on a 28ft track. I see in one of the videos that we are at least an inch behind after the first few car lengths...

We ran Districts today & finished 2nd. I noticed when looking at the video we are consistently slow on the starts, but pass cars down the track. What kinds of things should I be looking for to fix this?