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Pinewood Derby Race Tips
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Building the Vehicle
adding weight without butchery	an inch ahead
Axle Drilling Advanced Tip	Balsa wood fenders
Car Design and Weight Placement	Car Ideas
Decals and Stickers	Fast and Easy way to add weight to the car.
Fun Car for adults	Gloss Finish
Hotwheels Building Method	How much should the boy do?
Make Your Own Reflective Windows from Old Credit Cards	Model Using Plastic Packaging
Parent's Helper to Independent Inventor	Sanding Tips
Securing Axles	Substitute for lead weght
The perfect template using your photo scanner	Wider car body
Manage a Race
A Certificate for Everyone	A Low-Budget Scoring Solution
A Pinewood Derby Heat for Dads	Car Building Workshop
Early Weigh-In	Fun Run
Geezer Derby	Girl Scouts Too
Grudge Match	How Many Rules?
Other activities	Pinewood vs Space vs Raingutter
Seating Arrangements	Which is better? Raingutter, Space or Pinewood
Speed Tips
Graphite to Wheels/ with Paper Towel	5.0 ounces
Adding axle performance	Adding weights
adjusting weight	Are aeordynamics important?
Axle Grooves	Axle Polishing
Axle Polishing and Embedding Graphite
Axle Wheel Spin	Correcting bad tracking
Cutting axles for holding graphite	fast wheels
Five Ounce Weight Limit	Glue Axles in Place
Graphite Fastest on 2nd Run	Graphite on Car
Graphite patch between wheel and car body	Graphite vs. Teflon Powder
Grind wheels together	How to Make Sure Axles are Straight
Identify trouble wheels - wheel spin test	Increasing Potential Energy
No Paint Here	Polishing Axles
Reduced Friction	Reduced wheel friction
Same wheels get faster each year	Side Weights
Six Points of Friction	Speed Work the Axle Heads
Super Graphite Axle Prep	Three wheels on the track
Tilted Axles	Use a drill to spin the axles
Use Graphite	Weight Tip
Weighted Wheels	What Kind of Weights?
Wheel hub contact area	Wheel hubs
Wheel Performance	Wheel Polishing and Shaping
Wheel Spinner	Where to Put the Weight