PRO Driller: Four Ways to Increase Speed!

1. Drill perfectly straight and square axle holes or slots. Straight cars don't hit the center rail (or hit the side rails for guideless tracks). Extra energy goes to increase your car's speed.
2. Drill a raised wheel hole. It takes less energy to turn 3 wheels. Extra energy goes to speed.
3. Drill 2.5 degree angled axle holes to cant your wheels. Canted wheels migrate toward the axle head where there is less friction. Less friction means more speed.
4. Create an extended wheelbase. Your car has more stability, which means more speed.

This adjustable tool includes an exclusive View Port, for any Pinewood Derby car block: BSA, PineCar, AWANA, Royal Rangers, etc.

Also includes a perfectly-sized 2.2 mm drill bit and instructions.

PRO Axle Hole Driller Instructions

Insert and Remove Axles Without Damage

How do you cleanly insert axles into those tight slots?

How can you remove stuck axles without damaging your wheels?

One end of this handy tool easily glides your axles into the slot.

The other end is used to easily grip the axle head and gently pull it out.

The Axle Inserter and Puller Tool is essential if you are using Ultra-Lite Wheels which can be damaged when pulling them in and out.

The PRO Axle Inserter Guide helps you to quickly and easily insert axles into the axle slot of your Pinewood Derby block. This tool will improve the speed of your car by ensuring accurate mounting of each axle in the axle slot.

1. Easy Axle Insertion - Ensures accurate mounting of axles to improve alignment. Accurate alignment is critical for top speed.
2. Perfect Wheel-to-Body Spacing - The built in Spacer gives you the perfect gap between the wheel hub and car body. The proper gap minimizes car wobble and reduces excess contact between the wheel hub and car body.
3. Reduced Risk of Block Damage - During the insertion process, the PRO Axle Inserter Guide provides support to the wood around the axle slot, minimizing the risk cracking or damaging the block.

PRO Axle Inserter Guide Instructions

If your wheels are too tight, your car slows dramatically. If they are too loose, your car wobbles, also slowing your car down.

The PRO Wheel Spacer Tool is a stainless steel "feeler gauge" that sets the exact spacing between your wheel hub and car body so your car runs at optimal speed.

Just slide the PRO Wheel Spacer over your axle and push the axle in until it is snug against the PRO Wheel Spacer. Remove, and voila, perfect spacing.

The PRO Wheel Spacer tool makes this critical adjustment fast, easy, and perfect, every time.

Consider our complementary tool, the PRO Axle Puller and Inserter, to insert your axles easily. One end is used to insert and the other end is used to remove axles without damaging your wheels (or your fingers!).

No more axles getting pushed in too far during assembly; no more to-heavy cars teetering over while you're trying to precisely add weight.

The PRO Assembly Station Tray has 3 perfectly crafted wheel holes, allowing for a standard wheelbase or extended wheelbase assembly.

Once you've put the first two wheels and axles into your car body, flip the car over and place the wheels in the tray's custom-engineered wheel holes. It will hold your car upright without putting pressure on the axles you've just inserted!

The PRO Assembly Station Tray is a fraction of an inch thicker than a Pinewood Derby wheel and accounts for the ideal wheel spacing. Plus, it will hold your car upright while you drill weight holes - just flip it over and you can use it as a sacrificial backer board to prevent drilling through your car and into your table.

We've also added pre-cut ports to hold your PRO Axle Puller/Inserter tool and PRO Wheel Spacer, tool!

Polished Wheel Bore = Greater Speed

Use the PRO Bore Polishing Kit to polish and graphite coat your wheel bores. This quick, easy technique is proven to improve car speed by reducing friction between the wheel and axle inside the wheel bore. No specialty tool needed here; just your drill.

• Eliminates plastic debris, scratches, and flaws inside the wheel bore.
• Polishes the wheel bore to a high shine.
• After polishing and washing out the wheel bore, use the extra cotton spears to coat the inside of the bore with graphite!
• Includes the PRO Bore Micro Polish for plastic surfaces, dense cotton spears perfectly sized for your wheel bore, and an instruction sheet.
• The bore polisher is easily chucked in a drill.

Check alignments in a snap with the PRO Wheel and Axle Alignment Guide.

Easily perform eight checks on your derby car for optimal performance! Increase speed with accurate axle and wheel alignments and spacing:

1. Axle Alignment - Makes your car roll straight
2. Wheel Alignment - Camber makes wheels square so car rolls straight
3. Wheel Spacing - Checks wheel clearance against body to make sure wheels do not bind or wobble
4. Check wheel height - Balance weight and makes car roll straight
5. Toe In, Toe Out - A wheel check to make car roll straight
6. Track Clearance - Be sure car will not drag on center rail
7. Verify car is legal length
8. Verify car is legal width

The Tool is made of a flexible, durable white polycarbonate.

How to Use the Alignment Guide

Polished Wheel = Greater Speed

The easiest way to make your wheels perfectly round and smooth is to mount each wheel on our Wheel Mandrel then use a drill to spin the wheel while holding it lightly against a sandpaper block.

Benefits include:

1. Sanding the outside wheel tread so it is perfectly smooth.
2. Centering cone provides perfect wheel centering on the mandrel to true the wheel to the center line.
3. Polishing the inner wheel edge to further reduce track friction.

How to Use The Wheel Mandrel

Polished Axles Improve Your Speed!

This Pinewood Derby Axle Polishing Kit contains five BSA axles, black wet-or-dry sandpaper, pumice, and full instructions for polishing your axles.

To increase speed, you need to sand the crimp marks using the 600 grit sandpaper, then polish your axles to a mirror shine using the pumice.

This kit has everything you need, including step-by-step pictorial instructions plus 5 spare axles!

Less Friction = More Speed!

This Pinewood Derby Axle File is used to remove burrs and reduce friction.

BSA axles are actually nails that have burrs and crimp marks from manufacturing. These defects act like brakes and must be removed or your car will have trouble reaching the finish line!

This handy little file solves the problem for you. Just put the axle in a vice and file off the defects.

We recommend getting the Axle Polishing Kit to complete the job of turning your rough-cut nails into high performance axles!

Perfect Drill Bit Size for Pinewood Derby Axles

This is the perfect-sized drill bit for Pinewood Derby axle holes. This drill bit is 2.2 mm, which is just big enough to allow you to hand-insert your BSA axles (2.24 mm), so you can push your axles in with your fingers instead of a hammer! AWANA axles are 2.37 mm, so they will be slightly tighter.

With a perfectly-sized axle hole, you can hand insert your axles, saving your fingers and ensuring your axles go in straight, thereby increasing your car's speed.

We found that a #44 drill bit (2.1 mm) is too small for Pinewood Derby axles, making it impossible to push axles in with your fingers, and adding the risk of inserting the axle crooked or cracking the block.

This drill bit works perfectly in our PRO Driller Tool.

Everything You Need

All the derby cutting and shaping tools you need in one kit! Use the Coping Saw to make rough or intricate cuts. Use the Four-Sided Wood Rasp Tool to shape your derby car.

Comes with 5 Coping Saw blades and an instruction sheet.

The Best Deal in Town!

Use this small derby-reacy pocket scale to weigh your car BEFORE the weigh-in!

This scale is perfect for Pinewood Derby racers:

• Highly accurate to 0.1 grams (0.005 ounces) so you can accurately bring your car to maximum weight.
• Handy 3.5" x 2.5" tray so your axles and wheels don't roll off.
• Includes two AAA batteries
• Backlit LCD display
• Weighs in oz, grams, ozt, and dwt
• Tray doubles as protective cover for easy carrying and storage
• Weighs up to 17 ounces
• Turn scale on/off to zero it. Can also be recalibrated.

When not using it for Pinewood Derby racing, use it to weigh mail for accurate postage, food for recipes, etc.