Public Pinewood Derby - Cub Scout Pack 688 (Atlanta, Georgia) Pope's Pinewood Pages Portal. Aligning Rear Axles. By Stan Pope I have completed a major rewrite/reformat of the CamAlign process. Here are the links: Format text for Guiding by Right side of RailFormat text for Guiding by Left side of RailFormat text for Generic Instructions I think that the new description will be more useful and easier to follow, but I am leaving this older version available. Introduction and Summary This document describes a process for aligning the rear axles of a Pinewood Derby car. The process originated as an accurate method for aligning cambered rear axles, for which published methods were problemmatic. The process is directly applicable to three wheel (4th wheel lifted) cars that guide using the center rail. Process Overview The following procedure causes each rear wheel's contribution to direction to be most prominent in the observed test results.
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Derby Talk - Index page. How To Build a Pinewood Derby Car - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks. Pinewood derby cars are made from kits containing a wood block, plastic wheels and metal nails for axles. The completed cars race down a multi-lane track powered by gravity and slowed by friction and wind resistance. Pinewood Derby and related races are run by Boy Scouts of America's Cub Scouts, Awana Grand Prix, Royal Rangers, Shape N Race, Kub Kar Rally, Royal Ambassadors, and others. Construction of a pinewood derby car involves: cutting out the bodyadding weightfiling and polishing the axlestruing and polishing the wheelsfinal alignment and assembly Pinewood derby cars ready to race A number of "speed secrets" have developed over the past half-century of pinewood derby.
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