How to Create a Pinewood Derby Car

Step 13:

The wheels can be worked on while the glue and/or paint dry.

The wheels and axels can make or break a car.  You will need to remove any seams on the wheels themselves and make sure that the axels are straight and shiny smooth.  The nails that are used for axels have little seam burrs near the place where the head and the stem of nail meet.  These will need to be removed and the part of the nail stem here the wheel will have contact will need to polished smooth.

Comments

[pliska]

Dremel tool works great for this.

[craftknowitall]

Thanks for all your suggestions. I am not comfortable with the Drimel, I'm not sure why. We bought the tools as a Pack because we have many single Moms and their personal tool list is limited. I usually lend them my drill and the tool kit. We offer to cut the car to the design the Cub draws on the sides etc. We do the best we can to help as we can without doing it all ourselves. Thanks again for your comments.