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Off-Topic => Chatterbox => Topic started by: Sparkey98 on March 05, 2010, 07:40:38 PM

Title: PINWOOD DERBY
Post by: Sparkey98 on March 05, 2010, 07:40:38 PM: yeah, I know two threads in one day.

anyway, who else here is a fan of Pinwood durby cars? has anyone else built them? I used to be into them, and today I just bought everything I need to build one over the weekend. Not a kit, everything seperate.

I will post pics of him when I'm done
Title: Re: PINWOOD DURBY
Post by: Doomkiller on March 05, 2010, 07:43:25 PM: Pinwood durby?

enlighted me.
Title: Re: PINWOOD DURBY
Post by: Badnik96 on March 05, 2010, 07:43:31 PM: I made a few, always won every year.
Title: Re: PINWOOD DURBY
Post by: frezal on March 05, 2010, 07:46:22 PM: Quote from: Sparkey98 on March 05, 2010, 07:40:38 PM
I will post pics of him when I'm done
Oh whom?
Title: Re: PINWOOD DURBY
Post by: Jonzu95 on March 05, 2010, 07:47:23 PM: Quote from: Sparkey98 on March 05, 2010, 07:44:50 PM
Quote from: Doomkiller on March 05, 2010, 07:43:25 PM
Pinwood durby?

enlighted me.

you don't know of them?

I don't know either... :ermm:
Title: Re: PINWOOD DURBY
Post by: Jack Daniels on March 05, 2010, 07:48:06 PM: Pinewood Derby is a blast. A friend of mine was telling me the other day that a good trick to getting more speed out of the car is to coat the axles with graphite so that there is less fricton on the wheels. I think I built those for about 3 years. Totally sucked at it... my cars were too fat and heavy.

Also did Co2 Racers one year... that was a blast. Would love to try that again sometime.
Title: Re: PINWOOD DERBY
Post by: Sparkey98 on March 05, 2010, 07:49:32 PM: yeah, you can buy graphite powder tubes now, that's the only thing I DID'NT buy for mine, though. I can't handle that stuff without inhalling some on acident!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinewood_derby (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinewood_derby)
Title: Re: PINWOOD DERBY
Post by: Badnik96 on March 05, 2010, 07:49:45 PM: Yeah, me and my brother PWN every year with our cars because my dad knows about the thingy posted above. I still race my cars sometime XD
Title: Re: PINWOOD DERBY
Post by: Hydro on March 05, 2010, 07:50:48 PM: I did CO2 drag racing once. I was in 8th grade and they had an 8th grade division and a high school division. Won the 8th grade and woulda won the high school but the wheels fell off my car.
Title: Re: PINWOOD DURBY
Post by: Scrap Daddy on March 05, 2010, 07:52:26 PM: Quote from: Jack Daniels on March 05, 2010, 07:48:06 PM
Also did Co2 Racers one year... that was a blast. Would love to try that again sometime.
YEAH! Co2 cars are awesome. I have quite a few of them from the tech class I took a few years ago, but my favorite is a car I made to look like Bullet Bill from Mario. I hollowed out the wood block and put all the wheels on the inside. Absolutely fail at racing but looked really cool.

I might post some pics if I can find the car.
Title: Re: PINWOOD DERBY
Post by: Sparkey98 on March 05, 2010, 07:54:45 PM: I found a vid that had a Co2 racer that looked like a bull dozer. if you're thinking pig whoop, think this. A bull dozer going 312 MPH at a smaller scale.

hell ya.
Title: Re: PINWOOD DERBY
Post by: Clickbeetle on March 05, 2010, 10:03:39 PM: I used to be in boy scouts and did a pinewood derby event every year for the three years I was in it. Didn't win anything the first year, won the loser's bracket the second year, and won the whole event the third year.

'Twas fun painting and decorating the cars to make them look pretty... much like RA2, I tried to make my cars unique in some way.
Title: Re: PINWOOD DERBY
Post by: Somebody on March 06, 2010, 08:27:51 AM: I had a car. It was a wedge painted like a block of cheese. I found a little rubber mouse and glued him on it and made a little bite mark on it.