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- Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:45 pm
- Forum: Car & Semi-Truck Construction
- Topic: What is most challenging PWD project you have yet to start?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 12919
Re: What is most challenging PWD project you have yet to sta
Wasn't that second vehicle from a made-for-tv movie Jan Michael Vincent post-apocalyptic sci fi thingy? SOOO cool when I first saw it, almost certainly intolerable today. The second one would be pretty straightforward, unless you actually wanted the wheel triplets to spin like in the movie. Is this ...
- Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:28 pm
- Forum: Planning, Preps & Running the Race
- Topic: Derby Trivia for Race MC?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 37615
Re: Derby Trivia for Race MC?
Well, I have safesearch ON, so now you're making me wonder . I think I'll just leave it on.
- Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:26 pm
- Forum: Car & Semi-Truck Construction
- Topic: Why the death wiggle on some runs and not on others?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9084
Re: Why the death wiggle on some runs and not on others?
did the car run only once in each lane? I've seen lane bias - until we gave our track a serious cleaning and rework about three years ago our "lane 1" tended to be slower and occasionally tossed cars off the track. Since then, no problems, NO TOSSED CARS, and it is now statistically faster...
- Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:19 pm
- Forum: Car & Semi-Truck Construction
- Topic: Speeder Car Help
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4758
Re: Speeder Car Help
This is why we tossed the "four on the floor" rule out for our local derby - in recognition that it can actually be quite difficult to get all four actually on the floor at the same time. Is this your first derby with this pack? They may or may not actually enforce this strictly. If you ha...
- Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:14 pm
- Forum: Trading Post
- Topic: Looking for "old style" pre-2009 wheels
- Replies: 21
- Views: 21366
Re: Looking for "old style" pre-2009 wheels
These are AWESOME! thanks for sharing!
- Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:11 pm
- Forum: General Car/Truck Racer Topics
- Topic: Quick Start Fronts (QSF) on pinewood derby cars prohibited.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 23172
Re: Quick Start Fronts (QSF) on pinewood derby cars prohibi
Actually, the rules in the box really are that bad and leave too many loopholes/items open to interpretation. I have no interest in running a derby with the box rules. Among other things they allow for cars which would be disqualified at our District races.
- Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:08 pm
- Forum: Planning, Preps & Running the Race
- Topic: Derby Trivia for Race MC?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 37615
Re: Derby Trivia for Race MC?
I use two machines at every derby - one runs GPRM and RaceReplay, the other runs a looping powerpoint slideshow which includes photos of cars, photos from the prior year's derby, comics scraped off the web, logos of our corporate event sponsors, as well as derby facts. I've stripped out everything b...
- Tue Jan 24, 2012 8:30 pm
- Forum: Scheduling Methods
- Topic: Request for Race Data
- Replies: 7
- Views: 13385
Re: Request for Race Data
Just sent you five years of data in CSV format, heat by heat with lane information, times, finish order, etc. We strip personally identifiable information from race results and publish to our Pack website each year, so the data is already set to go. When I first started doing this three years ago, i...
- Mon Jan 23, 2012 3:48 pm
- Forum: Car & Semi-Truck Photos
- Topic: Important note on car designs seen here!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 18922
Re: Important note on car designs seen here!
um... guilty!
- Mon Jan 23, 2012 3:43 pm
- Forum: Car & Semi-Truck Photos
- Topic: Angry Birds
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7216
Re: Angry Birds
Great idea!
how did you anchor the sheet into the base? Did you cut a groove... then anchor with... epoxy?
how did you anchor the sheet into the base? Did you cut a groove... then anchor with... epoxy?
- Mon Jan 23, 2012 3:40 pm
- Forum: Planning, Preps & Running the Race
- Topic: Printer needed on race day?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7280
Re: Printer needed on race day?
Three years ago we used a borrowed inkjet printer. It helped out tremendously, however while fast, we found we were waiting for it to print the requested 4x copies of the 5 page race matrix (one for me, one for the announcer, one for the pit crew, and two to post for the cubs to see). Last year and ...
- Mon Jan 23, 2012 3:26 pm
- Forum: Car & Semi-Truck Construction
- Topic: How thin of a car is ok
- Replies: 33
- Views: 40651
Re: How thin of a car is ok
My son's current year car is a little over 1/4" tall, but we beveled the sides in on the bottom edges of the car between the front and rear wheel which makes the car look about 1/8" tall when viewed from above. Since most derby cars are viewed from above, it makes it look like a ridiculous...
- Mon Jan 23, 2012 3:19 pm
- Forum: Car & Semi-Truck Construction
- Topic: Auto Carrier ideas?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 14714
Re: Auto Carrier ideas?
Awesome idea!
Since pinecars are basically out of proportion anyway, the scale actually looks fine to me. But now that you mention it...
Since pinecars are basically out of proportion anyway, the scale actually looks fine to me. But now that you mention it...
- Sun Jan 22, 2012 5:58 pm
- Forum: Software
- Topic: When is a new race file needed?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9933
Re: When is a new race file needed?
We switched from RaceView to GPRM three years ago, and could not be happier with the switch. At that point RaceView had already been discontinued for 3+ years (if I recall correctly!), so kudos for getting it to continue to work a few more years. RV was too unreliable and we had a nurse an old lapto...
- Sun Jan 22, 2012 4:14 pm
- Forum: Car & Semi-Truck Photos
- Topic: 2012 Pack winner
- Replies: 21
- Views: 16905
Re: 2012 Pack winner
Design awards are only consolation awards if all boys who don't get a speed award get a design award. We do NOT do this - although I've been told that is what was done in our pack 5+ years ago. We give out participation certificates to all boys, out of the 72 racers, 41 took home medals and/or troph...