Five tips for fastest pinewood derby car - THE ORIGINAL

hi my name is Shane Walton I live in Mesa Arizona I come from a family of Pinewood Derby fanatics and after helping with many people over the years trying to make our pack meeting as competitive as possible because when I was young I like to run away from the race and you know try and smoke everyone but as I got older I'm like let's have competitive races let me get let me give all the tricks I can to the guys I know so I'm gonna go over some of the tricks that have helped us win many races over the years and these are these are my top five tips for a fast car number one work on wheels and axles we'll talk about that flat body and weight and back right on three wheels angle the axles and rail riding so let's start with working on the wheels and axles so with the axles especially you want you want to get these polished put put this in the drill bit where my fingers are and just spin that in the drill and you want to polish that you know first with a file and get all the burrs off and then eventually get it up to like 1,500 or 2,000 grit sandpaper just spinning that thing and just shine that thing you can't tell very much here but it but it's super shiny the edges you have been beveled on the edge of the nail you won beveled away from the tire to have as less friction as possible same thing with the wheel you want it smooth and you know make sure there's no burrs on it you can actually buy a lot of stuff online if you want to spend a little money some of this stuff I've bought over the years a lot of it we've just done on our own but so showing that up you can actually plug this in the drill drill as well get it spinning you know there's a little pipe cleaner I'll dip that in graphite and I'll run it through here and put that on the spinner and spin it really get them inside smooth and get all the graphite on there then you know once that axles super shiny you want to put as much graphite as you can in here and just spin it and work you know work that so there's it will spin for 20 or 30 seconds when it's well graphite you know lots of graphite on there so that's by far the best thing you can do if you want to have a fast car is work a lot on your wheels and axles number-two flat body and weight and back so here's my four fastest cars you can see they're all nice and thin some of them are super thin you know these two for example you know that that is they you know super thin car made for speed all the weight fit back here where my thumb is and you know I even had to list on but that's the bottom of the car so we wouldn't actually even put it upside down but so nice and thin here's the latest and greatest is putting these little fins on the front back for a little bit more aerodynamic you can buy those or you can just spend time and carve them it's a tree off if you know you're adding a little bit of weight upfront with with the two fenders the back you know the guys who are the top racers my dad's in a league in Salt Lake City and they all put the fins on them so that's the this is the fastest car I got and so nice flat body thin weight in the back so we've been here like totally hollowed this out all the weights in the back here you're gonna get that you're gonna get that last little bit of gravity pool at the bottom of the track as a zips off you want that little extra weight in the back right on three wheels so you'll see if I tap these these cars see that wheels not touching doesn't touch another touch I mean that one it's super obvious I mean you get down here you can see how far off the ground that that wheels but so those are freezes it's been freely just sitting here so only three wheels are touching the ground a little less friction the friction and you know faster right all right these last two are just the last couple years this has been the trend for the fastest cars you know guys with with people having their own tracks now and testing and doing a lot of different stuff here's what they figured out angle the axles and ride the rail here's what that means so from the rear here if I get really close you can you might be able to tell that one so see how those back wheels the back wheels are actually angled away from the body it's like this on that side and like that on the other side so they're they're angled away from the body away from the track you know you can see them slightly angled so that only the inside only the inside part of the tire is touching see that on that yellow car you can see it's just barely touching on the inside and it's angled away now the opposite for the front the front you have angled inward so this this is the tire that touches this one's not touching so so it's angled inwards see how there's some space in there you can tell that that the wheels angled in so the the front angled inward the back angle outward and then that goes along with the last one rail riding so what that does we'll put this down here and I'll show yourself with the angled wheels so the back is angled away from the body the front tire is angled like such what happens is only the inside part of that wheel is gonna touch the rail because what I what I've done with testing is made this so that this car actually veers inward this is the wheel that touches I want that wheel to run into the track that's called Braille writing so as I push this sea house it's very - it's very to the left and this wheel right here we'll be riding the whale there's the rail since I put it up here on the track so have it on the track here the back wheels angled away from the track so they'll never they'll never touch the rail this front wheel is the one that that touches and it's gonna ride into the rail it's gonna it's gonna hug the rail the whole way down that that avoids us from getting a little bit of the wobble at the end of the race I they used to say 10-15 years ago they used to say you want this car to go straight as possible well the end of the race you'd get you get a lot of wiggle we don't get any wiggle in these because they hug the rail and no wiggle means no vibration no bouncing and it's a smooth right so let's line these up one two three four my four fastest cars I got here make sure they're all lined up straight so we'll see if they if they go in order here one two three four racing down the track BAM hopefully sure enough one two three four three point zero three point zero three point one one three point one four on the 40 foot track anything when I got that number one car I've actually broken two point nine nine you know broken the three-second barrier on a 40 foot track which is super fast for a standard Cub Scout car so those are the tips hope that helped again you know I know it's a little bit long video but if you do those for those five things and especially the wheels and axles that's the a number one most important you can have a great time with Derby winner and have fun building with yourself thanks

Channel: Thane Walton

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Length: 8min 43sec (523 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 24 2014