I used to love building those cars. Got quite good at it. My cars would always place first or second. Most times it wasn’t even close.
My granddaughter, who is nine, built her first pinewood derby car it was blue and she almost beat her brother.
Scouting has been dead ever since the approved fags to be scout leaders. The girls should’ve never been allowed to join.
I guess this means the we won’t have to talk about women drivers anymore, because they will be getting educated about cars earlier in life.
Hey now! I'm sure that a girl's dad can build a pinewood derby car every bit as good as a boy's dad can.
The headline makes absolutely no sense. What are Girls doing in the Boy Scouts? There is a program for Girls, and as one might imagine it’s called the Girl Scouts.
The secret?? Weight in the nose, and powdered graphite on the Axles. Never came in less than 2nd.
Mission accomplished!
Assimilation into the Globohomo hive is complete.
When my son “ages out” of Cub Scouts at the end of this spring we are done with Scouts in general.
Cub Scouts is too long (5 years) is simply too long and my son has lost interest moved on. He’s still in it because I am den leader and was Cub Master until this year
Girls ( Scouts) have been particpating in this for years by invitation
God forbid girls should get to build and test a pinewood car...taking away the manhood of the Cub Scouts
Mrs WBill ran a pink car in the Outlaw class one year. It was "Street Legal", meaning that it abided by all of the Pinewood Derby rules.
Her times smoked everyone. Proving my theory that it's not so much the weight, or the aerodynamics, but the wheels and hubs....I may or may not have had a little input into the design. :-) It was fun to watch some of the guys get their egos popped.
One of the formative experiences with politics that turned me into a conservative at an early age. :)
I’ve come to think that since the lesbians took over girl scout leadership, and the gays took over boy scout leadership, the safest thing for the kids is for girls to go into the Boy Scouts and boys to go into Girl Scouts.
My daughter is in American Heritage Girls. They partner with our church’s Boy Scouts for the pinewood derby every year. My daughter was the reigning champ for 4 straight years until finally being outmatched this year.
On a side note, I entered a car in the “outlaws” class. No rules ... build what you want. I built the Knight Bus from Harry Potter at my daughter’s request. 3 derby blocks stacked. That thing was unbeatable. Even left her car in the dust.
I worked with a group of fellow engineers on optimizing PRD cars. We figured it out (on extruded aluminum tracks) so well that they changed the rules in our Council. No wind tunnels at NCSU, no ion implantation to harden axles or inner wheel hubs, etc.
Basic physics says put the weight at the back. However, high speed video photography showed that the cars with the weight in front of the front axle “chattered” less as they went down the track and the contact between the inside of the wheel and the track acted like braking. The best weights are tungsten welding rod tips (waste at a welding shop) with 2x the density of lead. Also, the nail used for the axle needs to be under-cut with a file to remove the forging seam under the head. This seam cuts into the wheel and brakes the wheel. If you can, put the wheels on a lathe and cut the thickness of the wheel rim down (from the back), you will significantly cut the rotational inertia and the wheels will “spool up” faster going down the track.
Also, never add graphite the day of racing. I had photomicrographs of the graphite at various times of break-in and it started out rough and got smoother and smoother as time passes. New graphite is like throwing chunks of concrete into a transmission.
I could keep going, but I forget a lot of the details.
We went nuts...
Gonna change the name to “Boi Scouts”.
Hope they are at least competitive otherwise they’ll have to employ a discrimination policy in the form of a handicap for female builders.
#notmyscouts