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On ‎11‎/‎20‎/‎2017 at 11:40 PM, DC Tom said:

Tungsten.

 

It's just so unbelievably useful.  

When my son was in Cubs Scouts... That was our go to material to weight a Pinewood Derby car.

 

"W" is incredibly compact.  You can get rid of all the wood.  One car we designed was as "thin" spring enabling the wood "chassis" to act like an "independent suspension" (legal the way we did it, the body was the spring). I should take a pic.  Hard to explain.  But... Need a band saw to cut it.

 

All, that nice W went packed just in front of the rear wheels.  Almost 4.5 oz.. The rest of the car was only a 1/2 oz. or so.

 

Only thing better is Hg, but that is a toxic no-no.  40 years ago when I was in Cubs, a father used Hg, car crashed and Hg spilled onto track.  Cub Pack was at a firehall... Kid gets DQ'd and race goes on after mop up.  Today, the whole race would have been shut down, hazmat team in and every kid sent to the ER!;)

 

 

Oh... That year... It wasn't even close. Son was like Patriots slicing through a Pop Warner team... All the way through District and Council.

 

Parents that year had own "outlaw" race and I built my car with same design as my son's... But machined my axles, hubs/wheels... Even had one wheel off track... The car was a sliver spring and the rest "W" weight. Totally dialed in.  A puff of air would move it on level ground!

 

LoL... It wasn't even close.

 

I am also thankful for tungsten, I felt like Bill Belicheck, I retired the next year and dialed my son's cars back in all fairness to competition. :D

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9 hours ago, mead107 said:

My awesome wife 

my daughter and Son 

my granddaughters

my brothers and sisters 

my friends 

 

 

also TBD (Scott) for a wonderful place to meet and make new friends that love the Bills. 

 

 

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an early Thanksgiving up here and a later one in the US for which I've gratefully cashed in on both for many years with family and friends and football/hockey road trips.

 

 

Used to enjoy a Red Wings/Lions/tOSUvMichigan road trip with other games tossed in when it was in AA.

 

 

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