Cardboard Sled Race Help

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Precision wrote: Thu Feb 14, 2019 2:31 pm https://www.stihlusa.com/products/blowe ... ers/br700/

perhaps this as extra drive force
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My oldest said the same thing! My second was thinking of ways to inflict damage on the other sleds in the race. I worry about that one a little.
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Now the question is where to get double or triple-walled cardboard in 8ft sheets without paying the freight charges.
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Myrtle Beach SC is where the cardboard totes are. Might be worth seeing if any local food manufacturers have any
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What about saturating the cardboard with a wood glue? Or, if cost becomes an issue, perhaps using a flour and water-based glue to saturate the cardboard
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Wow, this escalated quickly.
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I did a project similar to this in high School except the idea was to make a small boat to carry one person out of butcher paper and balsa wood. Turns out if you impregnate the wood and paper with enough gorilla glue you essentially get plastic. Our boat was so successful it resulted in the rules being changed. Given the rules here impregnating the entire structure with the right "adhesive" and waxing it up should have good results.
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tfbncc wrote: Fri Feb 15, 2019 7:51 am Wow, this escalated quickly.
Not surprised. I couldn't think of a better crew to help with this. And I finally got my thousandth post!
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Durham68 wrote: Thu Feb 14, 2019 7:41 pm Now the question is where to get double or triple-walled cardboard in 8ft sheets without paying the freight charges.
If you using epoxy why not just laminate layers of your own form the really thick local stuff. Grocery stores that have the pallet sized cardboard bins (think watermelon display). That is thick cardboard.
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https://phoenix.craigslist.org/nph/zip/ ... 70444.html

Not that you are likely in Pheonix, but now we know the name of these boxes.
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https://thegaylordboxexchange.com/ Greatly increases your chance of finding them locally
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