Phew! The RACE IS OVER! Hey we had a great time. Some of you must have prayed! Turn out was good. We even got home a hour earlier than expected. I will have pictures up in a while. Praise God we were Blessed by our District Commander, Jerry Milllhouser and our National Commander, Richard Mariot who had cars and families racing. Word is out that JR who is Richard Mariots Son-Inlaw has this Pinewood Derby Racing figured out. He took 3 1st place trophies in 3 different classes. I mean to tell you he has the gift!
I am so glad were done! I was the facilitator and trouble shooter for both tracks, software-hardware and tough decisions! Our Track is made of red oak, it has a staging light that drops the start gate and the Super Timer Software. The track is 8 years old and this year I had to do a little prerace maintenance on it by adding a few (60)screws. I took it to National Camporama 2 years ago and it still hasn't recovered from the warping and humidity that was there. (IF you bring a wood track put it on Plastic and bring a tarp to cover it up...as the dew in the morning will give you a Bunch of GRIEF!) The other track is the New Supertimer II Plastic Track. It all goes in a 1 by 6 feet box and it worked great! I will have pictures in the works on that as well. We put the tracks up on Tables this year so everyone could see the race. I think it is a better way of doing it instead of the track being on the ground! I didn't have one case of someone jumping over the track! GRIN! I did win a 1st and 2 place trophy in the Inventors Class... (Was only two cars in this class..GRIN) my other Commanders Car took 5th place! I was only beaten by the very very best! My son took a 2nd Place in Design in his Discovery Rangers Class. Lot's of competition there! Everyone is a winner! All took home ribbons and 90 took home trophies and I think everyone had a great time! IF your putting together a Pinewood Derby Race the Ranger Database has Pinewood Derby Racing down to a simple few key strokes! Everything you need to print for a race is found in this FREE SOFTWARE PROGRAM. I enjoy hearing your reports and am sounding off to encourage you to REACH, TEACH AND KEEP BOYS FOR JESUS CHRIST! Mark Jones p.s. You should see my office. Its a disaster...GRIN! Download a Free Royal Ranger Database. It's packed with goodies and it will make record keeping fun! Over 31 related databases and 13 years of field experience. Just like Salvation it's free! http://home.classicnet.net/mjones02/index.html ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! _______ List host: http://eBible.org/mpj/ List info: http://eBible.org/rangernet/faq.htm To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe rangernet" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://eBible.org/subscribe.htm
