Derby Talk

I found the tailstock!

Hello guys! The race date has been set for the end of September, so I have a month left. Plenty of time, but I have some training out in San Diego, and am giving some presentations around Europe, so it will be tight. I have decided to lathe my own wheels (for better or worse), so I'm getting this ol...

Stan, the "inelastic" compression (deformation) can also be referred to as plastic deformation, though that might be confusing due to the same name being used for the material of the wheel. "Permanent" deformation could also be used. Even if inelastic deformation did not occur, e...

Gameday, Here's a thought that might help prolong your tool and save some fingers. Get one of those small, single hand sledge hammers. (I don't know the proper name for the tool but the head looks like a sledge hammer head but smaller and it has a short, framing hammer, sized handle to be used one ...

Wow! Thanks so much for sharing your experience. Good stuff! This is the second year our location is holding a derby. I was at a different campus last year, though, so I missed it. Unfortunately, I also missed seeing the cars and what I'm up against. I did help someone else work on his, and it was p...

Hello, this is my first post. This has been a great site for information, but looks like it has been really slow lately! My place of work is holding a PWD race for the employees, just as a fun thing to do. So far my only PWD was decades ago in the Scouts, and what a piece of junk it was! Now I can f...