Recent content by karlaj

First, congrats! That's a very small rule set. You might followup on that or check your district website to see if something more has been posted. I agree with your assessments on equipment and setup, but hopefully others will chime in if something looks off. If you can tune the car to steer...

What bracketracer said sounds right. Tune the car w/ 3 touching, get the wheel barely touching but not affecting the steer (guessing weight on 4th wheel is below 1 gram). Rail-riding vs straight? I'm pretty new here but unfortunately, I can tell you from experience that straight is slower b/c...

PM sent. You aren't lying about paint being heavy. When planning, we left a good margin to adjust w/ tungsten putty, but the several layers of paint and clear coats added a lot and we juuuust fit under. Another lesson learned there.

thank you Regal. In no particular order: We’re using John’s wheels, the ones you rec’d. Polished and prep’d with novus2 and red rocket. They’re relatively heavy but nothing I can do about it. Depending who I’ve asked, this could be 0.04s or less than 0.01s. Checked with jewelers loop and look...

ok, first NPWDRL race in the books last night. Not unhappy with results, though we weren't good. We were Purple and Beskar, if you watch the Scout class. My takeaways: 1. there is almost nothing that can be done with a standard PWD kit that will be raceable at the league level. 2. Tracks can...

That’s a lot of love for a block of wood! Never knew about physically flattening the flakes, makes sense—thanks for the tip. Most of the acrylics (for my kids) use mica powder and deswirling that is horrible, so I might try this next year Freehanded the flames? I have a hard time with small...

Looks slick. How did you end up doing the paint? First the green fleck with black stencil on top, or vice versa? I'm in the camp of "if you're gonna go slow, you better look good" so always looking for tips!

This year, the boys went for pretty radically different designs (center & right), while I got to finally race in the a new masters division using the "rejects" parts (which turns out can still be ok). We ended up racing w/ a second pack due to reduced numbers to make bigger dens, and that was...

OK, thanks.

School me on shipping. Quick forum search didn't answer this one... I'm following this: http://npwdrl.com/registration/ I've got cars boxed up and ready to send to UT for proxy on Mar 5. Printing a label to ship cars there is clear. But, I don't see how to do the return shipping label. USPS...

Thanks, finally found it. Some websites need updating. ;-) Watching the video of the scouts race, the speeds from the bottom cars are beyond us (we also run 42' best track, so comparable?). I knew the top was not reachable, but I'm not sure where to pick up 0.07s just to reach the very back of...

I peeked around today but couldn’t find the new schedule. I’m totally ready to give it a try (current car v. new hotness), even if we’re the last two. Just gotta find when and where. And yep, Data always beats a thousand expert opinions.

First, huge thanks to all y'all for help and feedback! Truly made a big difference unlearning a bunch of crap and getting better. But, having internalized the entire contents of about 10 years of data, forum information, and developed a machine-learning algorithm to sort fact from fiction (ok...

I think you could justify or object to this and many other stupid rules a number of different ways. From what I can tell, y'all have beaten that horse dead many times over. Thank you Bracket for bringing info on a) how much speed is given up with/without coating, and b) that your options...

I looked into Sailkote—You’re right, it’s another option. The MSDS shows it’s a bit nastier than pledge, so I’m not thrilled about having it around. But it seems easy enough to use. Do you have experience with it, Bracket? And thanks! and, what’s the difference in time btw a pledge/sailkote...