Derby Talk

This is looking awesome. Respect to you for cuttin' it old school with the coping saw.

I imagine this will give me a serious case of the willies when it is finished. I hate (real) wasps.

Grabbed one of these off of Amazon. Used it last night to help the kids mark axle holes. http://i.imgur.com/IxKc5Phl.jpg Oh my goodness, this thing is a dream. Makes marking itty bitty measurements a cakewalk. If you are working on small things (like Pinewood Derby cars), I'm gonna say that you need...

Hmm, of course, to reply to my own post, having a longer car means that your weight starts higher on the track, thus giving a greater potential energy, no?

This is an interesting question. The maximum length of the car is 7", but since the wheelbase is locked at ~4.375", is there any benefit to extending the nose out, once I've shifted the axles as far back as they'll go? I don't believe there's any minimum length to contend with. If we were ...

Has anybody else been having intermittent problems connecting to DT? It is good 95℅ of the time, but a couple times a day I'll be unable to access. Just wondering if this was a known issue.

So, our rules dictate a wheelbase of no more than 4.5 inches. Pretty close to stock wheelbase on a typical BSA block. However, I realize that this leaves us free to, if desired, shift the axles back a bit (We could do the same with the stock slots by cutting off some wood from the back and gluing it...

Can't speak for Testors, but I definitely get a better finish when I use Rustoleum spray paint in warmer weather than when it is chilly outside. I have noticed that when I use the small cans of Testors spray paint that the spray often has large particles. Just did a lossy job of painting a car. Then...

Well, given the amount of work required to be Cubmaster, that sounds like a fair trade...

Noskills wrote:Vit K,
As the cubmaster I have 2 cases of kits to weigh in the privacy of my own garage.
It's good to be the cubmaster.
Noskills

I just can't see myself weighing boxes. I just couldn't weather the kind of looks I'd get. :sweating: I think if really needed to drop more weight from a 1/4" thick chassis, I'd cut out sections and put in balsa inserts. Davet I weight the whole box as you suggest. Boxes are about 4.5 to 5.9 oz...

Without giving away too many trade secrets, LightninBoy, do you have a suggested starting point for wheel prep? Assuming, that is, typical scout-level restrictions on what you can and can't do to wheels. I have drilled a bunch of blocks now and they all pass my visual inspection (using drill bits, I...

Just read this...that's some seriously involved hackery. The code-nerd in my heart salutes you.

Dude, that's a sweet looking sword. I motion that we change your handle from 'Noskills' to 'Madskills'. Also, did you build that entirely on your own, or did you follow some kind of guide? I have always found 'Glamdring' much more enjoyable to say than the English translation. ;) Me too! Noskills ht...

I have always found 'Glamdring' much more enjoyable to say than the English translation. ;) Hello all, Took the summer off. Need to post the cool photos of the oak sword I made my son (based on the Foe Hammer from LOTR)... I use the Silver Bullet. I have gotten good results. When I am not paying att...

Without touching off on a debate that's already been done in a few threads, I think that points is quite easy to understand, and makes the event an actual 'race', as opposed to a time comparison. It does, however, make it somewhat tricky when you want to compare racers from different groups against ...

By "fastest", should I assume that you're running your races by time, as opposed to by points? :thinking: Here's how we do it: Top 2 fastest racers from each Den advance to finals. We generally have Tigers, Wolves, Bears, Webelows I and Webelows II dens, so that is a total of 10 racers adv...