Recent content by rlb1961

I won't be there in person, but I am sending several cars - a couple of Eliminators, and possibly one Unlimited and one Street Pro...

Yeah, you have to hold onto the workpiece - did you have the guard in place to prevent that?

That's the one I have - everyone loves it when I bring this to PWD build days for our outpost. Having both belt and spindle sanding available on one machine really makes a difference. The only bad thing is that I have NEVER seen this sander on sale. I waited about 3 years for a sale before...

Are you going to post a schedule of when each class will be racing? Since I only have cars in 2 of the classes, it'd be nice to know approx. when I should be watching online...

I sent in 2 cars, and it looks like John has received them already... One Eliminator and one Street Stock.

Okay, thanks. Since this is my first proxy race, I wasn't sure what to expect...

So will John post when he receives the cars, like Brian did for CFC? The USPS site shows my cars were delivered yesterday - just hoping they arrived in good shape!

Same thing happened to me, Brian. The only thing I found was an option to show that I was shipping it from a ZIP code different from the return address (my address). There was a price differential of about 40 cents depending upon whether I selected that option or not. If I hadn't put in...

So March Madness will be my first league race. It will also be my first non-Royal Rangers race, so nobody laugh too hard... I am entering 2 cars: "American Spirit" which is in the Eliminator class, and "Midnight Xpress", which is in the Street Stock class. I didn't go all out and buy the...

Thanks everyone. I just hope it has as much "go" as it has "show"...

I see everyone raving about Jigaloo, which is a silicone-base dry lubricant, as opposed to a Teflon-based lubricant like Blue Thunder or DuPont Multi-use. Thanks to our lovely enviro-whackos out here, you can't get Jigaloo in CA anymore. Has anyone tested something like this before? If so...

Okay, so I finished my first build for NPWDRL - hopefully I'll have it ready to ship next Monday for March Madness. This is my first build for a non-Royal Rangers car, and my first fender car. So we'll see how it runs... American Spirit

Does anyone have or know of a test track in the Northern/Central California area? Down4Derby made a generous offer to let me use his track to test/tune my cars, but he is in Santa Barbara - about 6 hours away. At this point, I don't have an extra grand or so to buy my own track and timer, so...

So today we had our district finals. Last year, Josh finished about 13th in his age group. This year, using John's oil prep process from the DVD, Blue Thunder and his oil, Joshua finished 2nd overall in Northern CA and Nevada for his age group. He also won first place overall for design and...

Thanks, QT. After we get through tomorrow, I am planning on building a couple of cars for the Eliminator class, hopefully in time for March Madness. The Eliminator class seems to be the closest to the rules we have for the Royal Ranger pinewood derbies, so I am hoping the experience I get...