A couple of quick questions

[LostAussie]

My cub just placed first in his den and pack and is going to move onto districts. Just found out district rules are different.

Although pack requires four on the floor it does not reference chanting. The district has the following verbiage "All cars must have a total of FOUR rolling wheels (no more/no less) including those in the design category and must run with ALL four wheels EVENLY touching the track." The evenly comment would seem to exclude chanting although I guess if all were evenly chanted that would be OK. I guess I need to get clarification but wanted others opinions on this.

The other question is lubrication. Pack rules state only dry graphite. district rules state "Only dry powder graphite or white BSA Wheel and Axle Lubricant may be used to lubricate wheels and axles. No oil, grease or silicone lubricants are allowed." Anyone know what "white BSA Wheel and Axle Lubricant" is and whether it is better than graphite.

Suspect will have to redo axles so want to determine best setup before getting into it. Probably will look to get pack rules and district rules in line for next year.

Any thoughts on how to interpret the EVENLY wording?

 

[Kinser Racing]

The white is not better.

 

[LostAussie]

Thanks where can I see what the white actually is. Guessing it must be a powder of some sort. Can't seem to see anything other than graphite on scoutstuff except http://scoutstuff.org/lubricant-pwd-krytox.html but as that is an oil I doubt that is what they are refering to.

 

[B_Regal Racing]

Don't use it.

http://guideimg.alibaba.com/images/shop/88/11/20/3/hl652-dry-white-lube-w-ptfe_1340043.jpg

 

[LostAussie]

Thanks. Probably will suggest they remove it from the list as does not seem to be available from BSA anymore.

Any thoughts on the evenly verbiage for the wheels. Think I will need to go to the source on that one. Hate different rules between packs and districts.

 

[DerbyJP]

Thanks. Probably will suggest they remove it from the list as does not seem to be available from BSA anymore.

Any thoughts on the evenly verbiage for the wheels. Think I will need to go to the source on that one. Hate different rules between packs and districts.

One might interpret "evenly" a couple of different ways. First, the intention could be to disallow canting (I'd guess this is probably the intent, but a bad/vague way to go about it) by implying each wheel itself must be evenly touching, i.e flat. Or it could mean that each wheel has to touch the same as all the other wheels, i.e. each wheel could be canted but touch the track the same amount (I doubt this is the intent, but could be argued).

Bottom line - if you don't want to risk disqualification, ask them ahead of time.

 

[Crash Enburn]

I agree with what DerbyJP said. You could argue that running the front wheels on a positive cant and the rears on a negative cant results in them "running evenly" as both sets are running only on a single edge. But you don't want to have your car disallowed at check-in for districts.

 

[LostAussie]

Thanks guys.

Dropping them a mail.