Recent content by Dscross

It has become almost expected now that my sons pack will somehow mess up pinewood derby. This year they issues a new set of rules, which some of you may have seen, by Great lakes feild service council. Last week the pack held the derby, then friday, and a week before district race we all get an...

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I of course forgot to ask the other question we had. Axels. A few things. Would something like the Javilen Stainless steel axels be ok? Again we errored on the safe side and polished our own. However We have one of the axel straigtening tools, and when using it, it flatened the axel heads. I...

Yes, thank you. My son's car was build with the BSA pine kit just incase. However I should tell you that all the judges at the race read your rules, looked at my Balsa and craft sticks and agreed that it adhered to the rules. So FYI, you might want to keep that in mind when you write next years...

We just had our pack race under these rules. Um... there were questions. Like when we measured 5 blocks directly from the BSA boxes and they didn't measure to 1.75 inches. One question we had was about graphite pads. Are they legal or not? As the way the rules were written I build a few Family...

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Looks like I'm going to be digging around for a .093 something and my dial calipers. Does the pin guage work better than a paper q-tip?

Just found out about pledge... is that still a thing? How didn't this come up in my hundreds of searches? Ok, more experimenting to do. The graphite situation is one We have trouble with, cant seem to get enough of it to stay on the axels. I burnished the axels, my son used a cut off q-tip to...

Hi everyone, new here and saying hello. My son and I build pinewood derby cars for his cub scout races. We liked it, and so we're both trying to learn more. We both want a home track to perfect out builds. His district race is in a few weeks, and we'd be glad for any advice on how to improve...