Especialidades JA/Derbi de automodelos de pino/Respuestas
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Año
1999
Version
17.11.2024
Autoridad de aprobación
Asociación General
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Have a derby tool kit handy. It should include superglue, sandpaper, a drill, extra screws for your weights, extra weights, a small screwdriver. You many not use it, but it will make you the most popular person at the event.
Transport your car in a shoebox. Dropped cars are unfortunately a too common experience.
Add LOTS of graphite right before check in.
Don’t play with your car. Treat your car with care, at least until Race Day. The more you play with it, the more likely you are to cause it to run more slowly. Running the car along the floor prior to the race will cause it to lose.
Your first goal is to make sure your car can make it all the way down the track.
- Build your car within the rules. If you can’t pass inspection, you can’t race.
- Assure ground clearance. If you add weight to the underside of your car, you should chisel or drill out areas in which to put the weight, so that the weight is “inlaid”. Failure to do this usually results in the car underside scraping the center guide rail.
- Assure vertical clearance. The lane judge should provide plenty of clearance for most any car. However some lane judges/timers have only about 3” clearance, so be sure that your car will fit under that. Crashing your car into the finish line at 120 scale miles per hour is exciting, but not your objective.
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Jesus was a Carpenter. Jesus may have spent many hours in a wood shop. I wonder if He helped Joseph design, transfer the design, clamp the wood, cut the wood with a saw, file, sand smooth, paint, assemble. I wonder how many tools did Jesus know how to use, that you just used yourself? I wonder...
Nota: Si usted está planeando participar en una competencia de su asociación de automodelos de pino de carrera, asegúrese de utilizar las especificaciones de su asociación, ya que algunas usan especificaciones diferentes a las mencionadas anteriormente.
Referencias
S&W Crafts Manufacturing
P.O. box 5501
Pasadena, CA 91117
626-793-2443
http://www.pinewoodderbycars.com
Pine Car
P.O. Box 98
Linn Creek, MO 65052
Nota: Automodelos de pino usualmente están disponibles por medio de la organización de Boy Scouts.