Derby Talk

Additionally with some ridiculous rule like... parts only out of the kit... not all kits are equal. what if a parent makes a mistake like we did our first year and super glued our wheels on to the axles, is buying a new sleeve of wheels from the scout shop out of the kit? They are different wheels a...

Iceman - welcome aboard.... you could not be in a better location as we host the Mid America Pinewood Derby - here in Omaha... I have a brand new 4 lane best track that I have to begin putting together... you should become part of our MAPWD Committee. We have meetings once a month until the event ge...

I would encourage you to look at the new addition to this years event... we are going to have a Open Scout Oil and an Open Scout Graphite Divisions... very exciting news. Hope that helps

Lots of questions - I will try and answer any that I haven't... Bore Prep - We have a process for that... using q tips - novus 2 & 1... along with lots of compressed air, fluffy pipe cleaners and wax... The Glass Cleaner is not for anything specific other than cleaning tuning board, and keeping ...

I think anyone that is on this forum and forum's alike have taken car building to an advanced level. Some parents / guardians either do not have the resources, skills or interest... maybe the best they can do is taking the time (hopefully) with thier scout to pick out a car online and order it... Re...

I do not understand why people struggle with rules so much why not create some rules that allow builders to engineer cars that would beat any ebay car that is sold... rules that are enforceable, rules that truly make it fair, like the rules we have at Mid America Pinewood Derby - http://www.midameri...

Topspin.... I do not have a Jig for a router... or a Milling Machine... I use a router bit in my Craftsman Drill Press, and essentially by hand router out the weight pockets... the boys help me by bringing down the drill press... - it is important to drill out as much of the material as possible as ...

Those are axles that I recieved from Steve at Derby Evolution... they are excellent - Axles!!! They are a much improved Axles compared to what you start with, in regards to many other options... but we polish our axles... it is a very lenghty process... and if you look at the photos I posted... We p...

there are so many steps to a good process.... https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-4BoiNdPwyfE/UvB6HfNZzdI/AAAAAAAAEmk/xiWieUtKXr0/w737-h553-no/1533943_10152123573444420_551559311_n.jpg https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-8a_WtfesvSs/UvB6ERPzV4I/AAAAAAAAElU/j-oGdt-NXMc/w737-h553-no/1465106_101521235716...

Here are several pics.... of our building process... sometime pictures are worth a thousand words. https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-sQ2bX1mPT8w/UvB6FE5vZVI/AAAAAAAAElo/x76NzQEDeNY/w737-h553-no/1497583_10152089155899420_184209687_n.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Of_7odef6p0/UvB6F5wQAiI/AAAA...

I took these pics during the building process... maybe they will shed a little light on things...

Things are all covered up... I don't know if it would help much?

That is great news Ickabod - it is fun building an oil based car... I suspect that your cars will again qualify through the District races and be entered into the Qualified Scout Division. The Open Scout Oil division will offer you some very top level competition and my kids have also decided that t...

We have found that waxing the bores and other areas of the wheel - then burnishing with a combination of different graphite does equate to speed and faster times. I have seen as much as .03 gains as a result of correctly applying wax and then burnishing with graphite.

Lots of benefits... waxing a bore, inner and outer parts of the hubs are VERY beneficial when running graphite, essentially the same process as oil will help make a MUCH faster graphite car, and burnishing graphite into the bore and inner and outer hubs you will see great increases in speed. There i...