Recent content by Dad o' Scouts

Thanks!

I'm not sure how best to describe this... I'm holding axle in hand and spinning wheel and every so often the sound suddenly changes, almost like it's speeding up and then stops. I know sometimes it does that from the start, but this time even when I get a good start and it's humming along okay...

Thank you. We've polished before: two different ways but both just graphite (once with cut q-tips and once using pre-graphited cotton rods from some vendor I don't remember now). Plan to try John's process this year.

I appreciate the help. Thanks again.

That's great. Happen to remember how long shipping took?

Thank you! That all makes a lot of sense, including the air shields and fenders as a dad project... Will modify my DD4H shopping cart accordingly. Kind of glad to know times change on tracks... my kids didn't see the time improvements year-over-year they'd expected last year and I couldn't...

Like many lurkers turned members, I'll start by saying thank you. When my scouts started pinewood derby, they were consistently last: we hammered their wheels into the slots (then taped them into place when the inevitable breakage happened), even once ran a car with a little paint on the wheel...