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Discover some cool pinewood derby car tools and how to use them when building your PineCar Racer®.
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Derby Car
Pinewood Derby Cars
Derby Cars
Pinewood Derby
Car Tools
Wooden Blocks
Woodworking Tips
First Step
High Tech
The First Step to Making a Great Car is to Start Woodworking!
Cutting into a wooden block with Racer Shaping Tools is the first step in making a great pinewood car. Make it safer with a vice and always supervise children who are using our tools. Read our How-To book for plenty of pinewood derby woodworking tips to help get you started. #scouts #woodworking #woodworkinglove #pinewoodderby #cubscoutdads
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Derby
Nail Type
Racing Car
A Video
To Create
Using an Axel Shaper
If you use an Axle Shaper™ to create slanted edges on a nail-type axle, you can greatly increase the speed of your racer. Here is a video on the process:
One common mistake to make when creating your racer is putting your wheels and axles on at the wrong angle. To avoid this, we suggest you consider using a Wheel Alignment Tool. Checking alignment is also important to making sure that your racer meets competition standards. To learn more about our Wheel Alignment Tool, please visit our website: https://pinecar.woodlandscenics.com/show/item/P456 Wheel Alignment, 5th Wheels, Create Yourself
Wheel Alignment
5th Wheels
Create Yourself
Always Align your Wheels & Axels!
One common mistake to make when creating your racer is putting your wheels and axles on at the wrong angle. To avoid this, we suggest you consider using a Wheel Alignment Tool. Checking alignment is also important to making sure that your racer meets competition standards. To learn more about our Wheel Alignment Tool, please visit our website: https://pinecar.woodlandscenics.com/show/item/P456
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Pinewood Derby Car
Car Needs
Car Drive
Make your pinewood derby car drive straight with the Straight Tracker!
Without you behind the wheel, your derby car needs to drive straight on its own. Learn to accurately bend axles to force straight tracking with the PineCar® Straight Tracker! Check out this how-to video, and watch more than 70 other helpful videos at the PineCar YouTube channel and pinecar.com.
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Online Purchase
Gravity
Worship
Learn about the Pro Body Jig by DerbyWorx
In honor of National Worship of Tools Day today, clean, reorganize and assess the tools you need to build a winning pinewood derby car. Looking for a pinewood derby tool to lower your racer’s center of gravity and go fast? Check out the Pro Body Jig from DerbyWorx, available for online purchase at our website.
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Tools
Building
Shape racer axles for speed
#TUESDAYTIP: To reduce friction, use the PineCar® Axle Shaper by straightening and rounding the axle shank and squaring the axle head to the shank. Learn more about shaping axles for your next pinewood derby racer in our PineCar® How-To Book.
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Car Center
Boy Scouts Of America
Calculator
Go fast with the PineCar Calculator App
Did you know PineCar® has an app that allows you to fine your pinewood derby car’s center of gravity or calculate the amount of weight you need on your front axle to place your center of gravity where you want? Check it out.
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Car Speed
Cool Tools
Bend
How to properly mount Pinewood Derby Wheels
Need a little help mounting your racer wheels? Try out Derby Worx Pro Wheel Mandrel! Watch this video to learn more. Discover more than 20 Derby Worx products available at pinecar.com!
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Throwback Thursday
Youtube Channel
Learn how this cool tool reduces derby car friction
It’s Throwback Thursday, and we decided to share one of our very first videos we ever produced. Learn how to use our Micro-Polishing System™, a great tool to help remove burrs and smooth out your derby car’s axles to reduce friction. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to watch more than 50 how-to videos to help with your pinewood derby racer, and learn more about our Micro-Polishing System at https://pinecar.woodlandscenics.com/show/item/P4038.
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Center Of Gravity
Fast Car
Fast Cars
A Car
Test your Derby Car Weight!
Weights can be tricksters that make or break a derby victory. Optimize your car's performance with the CoG System. Center of Gravity (CoG) helps you determine how to distribute weight to ensure a fast car.
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Grand Prix Cars
Shape your Racer right!
#WEDNESDAYWISDOM: Rounded corners give your pinewood derby racer a more aerodynamic shape, which helps reduce wind resistance and friction for increased speed. A great way to help shape your PineCar Racer® is a wood rasp, a coarse file with cutting teeth and is included in our Racer Shaping Tools kit.
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Precision Tools
Cnc Machine
Car Design
Derby Car Tools for the Win!
PineCar® Precision tools are CNC machined. These high-end tools are designed explicitly to correct standard manufacturing imperfections of mass-produced car bodies, axles and wheels for fine-tuning a racer for optimum performance and speed. Watch our video on YouTube, and find out more at pinecar.com.
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Car Racer
Need axle holes for your pinewood derby car?
Find out how easy it is to accurately create new axle holes and lower the center of gravity in your racer with Derby Worx's Pro Body Jig, now available in our online inventory. Check out 20+ DerbyWorx tools and accessories that are now part of our online inventory at pinecar.com! #pinecar #pinewoodderby #pinecarracer #derbyworx
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Pinewood Derby Templates
Informative Videos
Cub Scout
Prepare Racer Wheels | Pinewood Racing Car | PineCar Derby
Want to make your derby racer fly down the track? Find out how to properly prepare your wheels and reduce friction for increased speed in this PineCar® YouTube video, . Watch more informative videos, discover useful derby tools and find out how else we can help at pinecar.com.