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one pound and 11 ounces of cubes, cylinders, plates and spheres $85 shipped

Just dont have the time, had to readjust priorities.

And yes $150 for all the tools

Will be listing wheels and tungsten later

I am getting out of Pinewood Derby Racing and have the following tools for sale: Jewkes The Block Jewkes 30 Years in 30 minutes video Pro Wheel Shaver XT w/ two extra blades Pro Hub Tool Pro Outer Hub Shaver Precision Wheel Balancer Axle Extraction Pliers Pro Axle Press Rail Rider Tool Pro Axle Guid...

Congratulations!!!

Quaddad, where did you see video's of the races? The Milwaukee Wave (along with others) had a booth at our Council's Scout Festival last weekend. They ran an endless-loop tape (DVD I assume) of the racing in their booth. Very nice representative there was interested in the Scout community opinion f...

Thanks for the congratulations. For Districts It had to be 4 wheels touching. So the District car was a 4 wheel railrider. all axles were straight except the DFW had a 1.5 degree bend with a com of 5/8. For the Council we modified a car that we built for pack races this year. It was a three wheel ra...

I wanted to take a moment and thank everyone for the great posts and help, especially Sporty. After coming in overall 6th or 7th at districts we had some work to do for council. We ended up modifying a car we had already built and ended up winning the council race by .0001 of a second. THANKS AGAIN!!!

The Track at the Milwaukee Wave had very little problems with cars coming off the end of the track. There might have been 4 or 5 cars out of around 100. I believe all of them were modified cars and the two motorized cars. As far as car set-up. We used my son's car from the pack PWD. One raised wheel...

Thank you for the help!!! There is so much to learn!!!

How do you tune the rears with drilled axle holes?

After reading a post on here, I am considering building a rail rider with positive camber on the DFW and negative camber on the rears. Would this present any problems?

I have the rules, but there are some area's that are vague. I am trying to find out more before we do too much. I also volunteered to work the technical inspections, that way I will knw exactly what is required.

I was guessing that it was timer, because most scout cars ran 2.4 to 2.55. But there was a heat or two that cars ran in the 2.35 range. It just seemed odd and random.

The staging was done by a person who was very meticulous. He individually set each and every car. I don't think that was the case.

Just finished District races yesterday and experienced a similar anomaly with two different cars. On the scout car (4 wheels touching, 4.96 oz 5/8 com) we ran in 6 heats and the times were 2.514, 2.503, 2.503, 2.503, 2.322, 2.504 and with an outlaw car (razor wheels four wheels touching, 7.14 oz, 5/...