cj
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Post by cj on Feb 25, 2011 23:04:06 GMT -6
I think we may have a car that's by our pwd rules that's cheating.
Rule #11 says "Attachments: The car must be freewheeling with no starting devices, no stored energy, and no movable weights."
The car in question has a paper clip that comes up through the bottom of the car and then is shaped like a swirl and at the end of the swirl there is a fishing weight. And the whole thing swivels so that when it gets to the bottom and spins around it gets another boost of speed.
Is this only violating the movable weight or is this also violating the stored energy part as well.
And others were also wondering that even if they glue it in place that the fact that it's a swirl/coil shape that may move would that be using stored energy?
we've never encountered this before?
Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
thanks
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Post by MaxV on Feb 26, 2011 9:24:34 GMT -6
If you could include a picture it would be helpful. Kind of hard to imagine what you are describing.
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cj
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Post by cj on Feb 26, 2011 20:28:04 GMT -6
Sorry it took so long to get back on here as it's been a very long day! My son had a car in the pwd and so did I and I also do the awards for the pack and all the derby awards as well on my own. I was not able to get a pic of the car but here's a (Bad) drawing of what it was and I hope you can get what I man from that. lol They ended up getting the parent to glue the paper clip so that it would no longer swing free. I was just very glad that nobody got their feeling hurt over it. But would still love you guys input on it. It was a neat idea but fishtailed quite a bit even after it was glued to keep from swiveling. My son's car actually went on to win the whole pack derby again this year.
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Post by MaxV on Feb 27, 2011 13:34:19 GMT -6
If the weight started and ended in the same location, then whatever stored energy was there wasn't used. So it only violated the rule on movable weight.
However, if the weight started in the curly area and ended up on top of the car body, then it used stored energy.
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