pine wood derby

[JOVATO8]

Hi

 

Need to make a pine wood Corvette.

Can anybody help me out.

The kids want to see one made on a mill.

This will be our last year and we have never made one on a machine before.If not well,thanks anyway.

 

God Bless The U.S.A.

Joe

[Hardmill]

Check out Cadcam's FTP site there are a couple in

the MC8 folder.

 

PEACE

[dan m]

I can't believe it's pine wood derby time already. I made the bat mobile from there last year and it turned out great. My son didn't win the race but won the coolest car.

[JOVATO8]

Thanks

 

Yes I did check out CadCam's FTP site and found 3

there.They were all pretty cool,but I'm still trying to locate a Corvette.

 

Thanks to all

Joe

[Hardmill]

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They were all pretty cool,but I'm still trying to locate a Corvette.

 

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Theres 2 in there, just look in the MC8_files

folder.

 

PEACE

[ny_winemaker]

How do you find the Cadcam FTP site? I tried to go to ftp.cadcam.com and got a popup that said the site didn't accept annomoys logins.

[robk]

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How do you find the Cadcam FTP site? I tried to go to ftp.cadcam.com and got a popup that said the site didn't accept annomoys logins.

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Link is at the top of this page

[Tony]

I put a "60's F1" pinewood in the mc8 folder.

Everyone Download it and verify it.

its pretty cool.

It comes out a little rough so Jr. can sand it

and feel a little more involved.

[Avs_Fan]

YOU GUYS ARE A BUNCH OF CHEATERS!!!

Unless you're competing in the "Open" class,

the rules say that the boys are supposed to

make the cars THEMSELVES. Having been a judge

once, it's pretty obvious that @ 90% of the

boys did little or nothing on their cars. The

Cub & Boy Scouting program is supposed to help

teach honesty, integrity, self-reliance, etc.

NOT whose dad can make the coolest cad/cam CNC machined wooden car. "...so Jr. can feel a bit more involved"??? He's supposed to be the ONLY one involved.

Ahhhh! It feels good to vent once in a while.

[Tony]

I only Modeled it from some kids dads hand

Sketch, then ran some tools over it.

My own sons Pine wood looked like a

"Melted Dill pickle"

 

Not Guilty

[Keith Graydon]

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YOU GUYS ARE A BUNCH OF CHEATERS

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AVS_FAN:

I support and mentor and help my children in everyway that i can. It might be helping with homework, discussing a book, teaching them how to hit a baseball, or yes even HELPING THEM BUILD A PINEWOOD DERBY CAR. I help them every way that i can. Im just better at building pinewood derby cars than at higher math.

 

Oh, I'm a Devils fan too.

 

-Keith

[Avs_Fan]

Well, OK, maybe I did help my son get the wheels on straight so that he won the fastest car in his den contest 2 out of 4 years!

I never said I wasn't one of the cheaters

[TheePres]

I added a Speed racer "Mach-5", a year ago, not sure if still there.

[aft]

My 2nd grade son and I did a John Deere 772BH road grader this year for Pinewood Derby. He came up with the idea. He sat with me while I drew it in Solidworks. He listened as I described how to feed it into Mastercam. He watched as I created tool paths. He watched as the CNC made it. My son can already draw parts for the laser. He drew the blade, blade attachment, hydraulics, etc. and we cut them on the laser.

 

Sorry about the dads with less equipment, but I got to spend some quality time with my son teaching him what I love.

 

I am amazed sometimes when I get home at night and my boys have a list of parts to make that night for the project that they are building.

[mold100]

Cheat today Politition tomorrow, So some of our kids are using technology to beat the others, sounds like a circle of life thing to me, if you got it use it! IMO

[Keith Graydon]

Links to two of our cars from years past. My Son is now out of Cub Scouts so they're are no more cars to be built.

 

The Incredible Elmobile , My daughters undefeated unofficial car. The look on her face is why you help your kids.

 

3.3Mb avi.

 

 

The Spiral Car. 18-0 undefeated pack champion. an unbelievably fast car. a missle.

 

7.7Mb avi.

 

Please download THIS CODEC if you have any problems watching these clips. The Codec is from ASUS. I grabbed the clips with my older Asus Nvidia Gforce card.

 

[ 01-15-2004, 08:03 AM: Message edited by: Keith Graydon ]

[Müřlıń®]

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Cheat today Politition tomorrow,

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LOL.......never too young to start training to be in politics.

 

 

Murlin

 

[ 01-13-2004, 02:04 PM: Message edited by: Murlin ]

[aft]

Since when did CNC skills get us into politics?

[Heavycut]

"Give a man a fish, feed him for a day; Teach a man to fish, feed him for life." - Chinese proverb (500 B.C.)

 

My Father always said "It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game"

 

I'm not so sure about that old cliche anymore!

 

Today its more like - "Winning isn't everything it's the only thing"

[aft]

Spending time with my son is everything!

 

I remember the pieces of crap that I built by myself because my dad was too busy to help me.

[Tony]

My kids "Know it all"

and sometimes do not want any help

hence the Melted pickle car.

Actually he (6) beat me at a game of Chess

Last weekend,

Maybe they do know it all!

 

[ 01-13-2004, 03:50 PM: Message edited by: Tony ]

[Trevor Bailey]

If you look at the one I put there that is a grand prix car. It is a guaranted(sp) winner. Add the weight to the front-mid section, groove the tires to spec and away you go. Unbeatable.

[JOVATO8]

Hey!

What's the big deal.

I let them push the start button on the machine.

Is that still cheating??

Thanks to all for your help.

 

God Bless America

Joe

[Avs_Fan]

Hi all,

 

I just wanted to apologize to anyone who took offense to my "Cheaters" posting. Since this was an Off Topic post,(maybe should have been "O/T pine wood derby"?) I wanted to see the responses to a baited, devils-advocate,shouting viewpoint. I think I did recant in my other post. I find the forum very entertaining as well as useful!

 

I absolutely helped my son with his cars. As a judge it was pretty sad to see the cars from boys who had no help. As to the original posting, I think it would be way cool to take the whole den to watch a car being made on state of the art machinery! I considered it myself at one point, but I couldn't coordinate a den meeting at the shop.

[Keith Graydon]

apology accepted