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    Official Scoutorama.com Pinewood Derby Handbook
    Official Scoutorama.com Pinewood Derby Handbook
    Official Scoutorama.com Pinewood Derby Handbook
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    Official Scoutorama.com Pinewood Derby Handbook

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    The Official Scoutorama.com Pinewood Derby Handbook contains top speed tips, detailed building instructions, and illustrations to help you build a winning derby car. Whether you are a veteran derby racer or just starting out on your first car, this book is based on decades of experience building winning derby cars. Over 6,000 copies sold.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScoutorama
    Release dateOct 5, 2010
    ISBN9781452435480
    Official Scoutorama.com Pinewood Derby Handbook
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    Scoutorama.com is one of the oldest and largest scouting related sites on the web. Since 1996, hundreds of thousands of scouters from all over the world visit Scoutorama.com each month to share scouting tips, skits, songs, fundraisers, camping recipes, and everything that has to do with scouts, youth programs, camping, and the outdoors.Ebooks written by Scoutorama.com include extensive research and are based on a wealth of scouting experience to help scouts and scouters succeed.

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      Official Scoutorama.com Pinewood Derby Handbook - Scoutorama

      Official Scoutorama.com Pinewood Derby Handbook

      Scoutorama.com

      Published by Scoutorama.com at Smashwords

      Copyright 2010 Tomahawk Sky, LLC

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      THE OFFICIAL SCOUTORAMA.COM PINEWOOD DERBY HANDBOOK IS NOT AN OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA. THIS PRODUCT IS NOT ENDORSED OR SPONSORED BY THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA. PINEWOOD DERBY IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA

      Table of Contents

      Scoutorama.com Derby Handbook

      Overview

      Planning Your Masterpiece

      Know the Rules

      Sufficient Time

      Fast-Running or Good-Looking?

      Building the Car

      Sketch the Shape

      Rough-saw the Derby Block

      Complete the Final Shaping

      Awesome Car Tips

      Performance Tips

      Finishing the Car

      Sand the Car

      Paint the Car

      Attach Decals

      Apply Finish

      Prepare Wheels and Axles

      Discuss the Six Points of Friction

      Modify the Wheels

      Modify the Axles

      Performance Tuning

      Add the Weight

      Apply Lubrication

      Attach Wheels and Axles

      Test the Alignment

      Race Day

      About Derby Tracks

      How it Works

      Lane Anatomy

      Differences

      Tools Appendix

      Building the Car Body

      Tuning Wheels & Axles

      Spare Parts

      Lubrication and Weights

      Procrastinator’s Short Cuts

      Weight

      Wheels

      Lubrication

      Derby 101

      The Cars

      The Race

      Chapter 1 - Scoutorama.com's Official Handbook

      Hundreds of thousands of Scouters visit www.scoutorama.com each month. They’ve been doing so since 1996. Each year we receive countless emails asking for secret pinewood derby speed tips, and exasperated pleas from derby contestants for advice on how to build derby cars.

      Over the years, we’ve also collected a lot of information from veteran derby masters who share their experience and ideas with scoutorama.com. We’ve gone through all this material, and combined it with our own experience and experiments with derby cars. Now for the first time, we’ve compiled all this information into one book.

      The writing and editing fell to me. I learned the derby trade under the skilled eye of my venerable father. He has 6 sons and has built many derby cars. He passed on his secrets to his sons, along with a legacy of having helped each son build at least one first place car during each of their Derby Years. And he gets peculiar joy from rubbing it in. Now with five kids of my own, I have had many opportunities to expand my father’s secrets and add my own.

      I hesitated to write this book, because I still have a few kids to help through the Derby Years. If this advice should fall into the hands of my competitors, I might lose my edge. So if you live in my neighborhood, please do the honorable thing and stop reading this book. Just kidding (kind

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