Derby Talk

Good luck getting rules implemented. We just had our Regatta race Friday. We had a bit of problems with the younger scouts pushing the boats with straws instead of just blowing them and the people running the race refusing to really call them on it. Lots of sad boys when they lost to somebody cheati...

Compare the density too. There are different grades.

Retodd1200 wrote:Hooray!! We are having a district race this year!! The vote came in last night, and after almost 2 months of lobbying and revising rules, we finally won. Just thought you guys would like to know.

Congrats on getting a district race approved! Also, Good luck in participating!

We hold Pinewood Derby each year and alternate Raingutter Reggata and Space Derby.

Thanks for the suggestion but that was already brought up earlier (in the thread I believe). Speedbuggy sent me a much cleaner version also. Oops. I guessed I missed it. :oops: I do love the templates on that site. I put them in a binder and use them as my idea book for those racers not sure about ...

It may already be too late, but there's a template on the Pinewood Derby Supersite at http://www.inetworld.net/bosworth/template.htm for a VW bug (Template 13). Thanks for the suggestion but that was already brought up earlier (in the thread I believe). Speedbuggy sent me a much cleaner version also.

When I've built designs like this, I've cut a thin frame from the bottom of the original block, I've built a hollow car body with two solid struts running side-to-side at the bottom (one in the front and one in the back), and I've attached the body to the frame with two screws running from the bott...

So maybe I could make a partial box with the back side of the box cut at a angle to get basic rear shape, then round the left and right sides? Yeah. Although the shape of a VW bug is so rounded, that you might end up using thicker wood for the box, to allow more rounding. But with a 45-degree miter...

I did a search and found the link to the "Old Style" Beetle and listed it below. I only made a template of the "New Style" Beetle in Cad but if you still want that then I can try to convert that and send it to you. http://www.inetworld.net/bosworth/Templates/carcut_13.pdf That's...

I am thinking probably make one box for the back, one box for the front, then glue them together when we become confident we won't ruin it.

I made one last year based on the "New Design" which is more rounded. I used pictures from the VW web site scaled to fit a Pinewood body and then made a template for this in cad. I have this template I could send you as an Acrobat file. I also saw a template in Acrobat for the old style B...

Basswood sands like Pine but when your cutting it is a little different. Basswood is the prefered wood for wood carvers since it is easy to work with. I have combined Basswood and pine on several cars with good results. It is also a very flexible and strong wood so you can cut it pretty thin. Balsa...

Would you try to make the box, get the box looking like the roof/truck, then screw or glue the box on a slim pinewood frame that has the axels on it? When I've built designs like this, I've cut a thin frame from the bottom of the original block, I've built a hollow car body with two solid struts ru...

Be very careful if you go this route. Most of the cars I've seen that have started this way have ended up very overweight (requiring a lot of work to hollow out the inside to meet the weight limit), or have used balsa. The problem with gluing a block of balsa to the stock pine block is that it is m...

Would you try to make the box, get the box looking like the roof/truck, then screw or glue the box on a slim pinewood frame that has the axels on it? When I've built designs like this, I've cut a thin frame from the bottom of the original block, I've built a hollow car body with two solid struts ru...