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Pinewood Derby Car Tools

The parts that are included with your Pinewood Derby car kit are far from perfect. The tools on this page will fine tune your wheels and axles for maximum performance and build a fast Pinewood Derby car.

Our rasps and saw will make building your car a breeze.

Pro Hub Tool
Reduce Wheel Friction

Hub Tool

The Pro Hub tool has 3 important uses in building a Pinewood Derby car and is the cornerstone of performance.

  1. Sizing wheel hub bores - Wheel hubs can vary in size in the molded wheels that come in your kit. This tool will allow you to ream the wheel hubs all to the same size. This is one of the most important steps in wheel alignment because it allows the car to sit square with equal radius's on the wheels (distance from the hub to the tread).
  2. Squaring hubs - All wheel hubs have defects from the molding process that prevents them from being mounted correctly on a mandrel. This tool will square the in-board hub to the centerline of the wheel, which allows for the most accurate tread face finishing.
  3. Coning the hubs - All derby cars will benefit from coning the in-board hub for a reduction in body to hub friction. Body contact is reduced by 95%.

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Only $9.95
Sandpaper included
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Pro Wheel Shaver XT
Eliminate Wheel Imperfections

Wheel Shaver

The Pro Wheel Shaver is one of the easiest, most efficient and cost effective ways to create perfectly round wheels from a molded standard wheel. Not all wheels are created equally, but with a Pro Wheel Shaver, they can be made Hi-Performance. The Pro Wheel Shaver can minimize speed loss caused by the following wheel defects:

  1. Out of round wheels cause improper alignment causing your Pinewood Derby car to pull to one side or oscillate. With this tool, you can shave the high spots off until your wheels are completely round.
  2. The inside edge of a most wheels is not straight. The most perfect aligned cars will still touch the center strip a few times on the way down the track. The inside edge of the wheel will determine what happens when contact is made. If the inner edge is not true, it will cause the car to sharply turn in the other direction slowing the car down.

The Pro Wheel Shaver requires the Pro Hub tool. The Wheel shaver is available separate if you already have the Pro Hub tool or you can purchase both at a discount.

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Only $34.95 w/o Hub tool
(Pro-Hub Tool Required)

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Only $42.95 with Hub tool - Save $2.95

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Replacement Blade
$3.60

We have blades for both the old and the new shaver. Select the blade for the shaver that you have.

OUT OF STOCK New Style Blades
OUT OF STOCK Old Style Blades
Pro Axle Press
Eliminate Axle Imperfections

Axle Press

       
Before                         After

Is this what your axles look like?
I hope not! But, your axles do have a lot
in common with the above picture.

Most axles are NAILS!!! They are not straight and they are not round and the axle head is not at right angles to the axle shaft. The result is FRICTION and a slow car.

All you need is the Pro Axle Press and a hammer to straighten the shaft of the axle, make the axle round and square the head of the axle to the centerline of the shaft.

The Pro Axle Press can make your car faster by:

  1. Taper the head to reduce friction between the outer hub of the wheel and the axle head.
  2. Reduces wheel vibrations by making axle shaft round.
  3. Makes correct axle alignment easy so your car will run straight down the track.
  4. Can also be used to make a 3-wheel car by slightly bending an axle to raise a front wheel off of the track.

Only $16.95
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Pro Body Tool
Make Perfect Axle Holes

Body Tool

The Pro Body Tool is a drilling aid to help create correctly placed axle holes on the body or correct mis-aligned slots in stock blocks when rules require their use.

  1. Easily place the axle holes perpendicular to the centerline of the car so your car will go straight down the track.
  2. Locate all of the axle holes at the same height on the body so the car sits square on the track.
  3. Reduce friction!!! By correctly placing the axles in the body, a builder will not have to bend or tweak the axles to get the car to run straight.

A hand drill is required. This tool is equipped with guide hole for BSA, PineCar, and other kits requiring a #44 drill bit. A #44 drill bit is included.

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Only $11.95
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Pro Wheel Mandrel
Polish your wheels the right way
Mandrel

The Pro Wheel Mandrel can be used to trim and polish your wheels, which will help your car go faster.

  1. A centering cone in the screw assembly allows for the best centering of wheels for wheel polishing.
  2. A step cut in the body of the tool is used for mounting BSA wheels in reverse for polishing of the inner edge.
  3. An easy grip screw does not require tools makes this mandrel easy to use.

A hand drill or lathe is needed to use this tool.

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Only $7.95
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Pro Bore Polisher
Your wheels can be made to spin even better than ever.

The Pro-Bore Polisher will improve the speed of your car by reducing friction between the wheel and axle inside the wheel bore.

  1. Eliminates plastic debris and minimizes flaws inside the wheel bore
  2. Polishes the wheel bore to a high shine.

Includes the Pro-Bore Polisher, two pipe cleaners and
one micron plastic polish.

A hand drill is needed to use this tool.

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Only $9.95
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Axle Guide
Axle Guide

This simple tool makes inserting the axles in your car a whole lot easier. It makes sure that the axles are horizontal and that the wheel-to-body gap is correct. For BSA, PineCar, and other kits which use 4 independent axles mounted in slots.

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Only $8.95

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Axle Puller
with feeler gauge
Make sure your car is running straight
Axle Puller

This tool comes in very handy any time that you need to insert or remove an axle from the car. Includes a stainless steel feeler gauge for setting the correct distance between wheel hub and car.

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Only $14.95

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Wheel Alignment Tool
Make sure your car is running straight
Wheel Alignment Tool

Get your car up to spec. Use this tool to:

  • Check Axle Alignment
  • Check Clearance Between Wheel and Body
  • Prevent Wheel Camber
  • Check Toe-in and Toe-out
  • Check Car Length and Width
  • Check Track Clearance

Easy to follow instructions included.

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Only $4.95
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Wood Rasps
Make building your car  easier

Wood Rasps

Rasps are used to shape your Pinewood Derby car block after it has been cut with a saw. Rasps are also great for rounding sharp corners and cutting groves into the wood. Rasps have rough teeth that can quickly remove a lot of wood. After you use a rasp, a file or sandpaper can be used to smooth the block.  More about rasps

Wood Rasps
$4.95

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Axle File

Axle File

This square needle file is just the right shape to remove the burr and crimp marks on axles.

$3.95 axle files

Coping Saw Kit

The most versatile saw for cutting your Pinewood Derby car block is the Coping Saw. With it, you can make straight cuts and gentle curves.
Includes:
Saw
5 blades
Four-way Rasp
Instructions

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Only $9.95
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Fine blade for cutting wood and plastic.
Medium blade for cutting wood.
Fine blade for cutting metal and wood.
Extra fine blade for cutting metal and wood.
Hacksaw blade for cutting metal.
Car Building Supplies

Pinewood Derby Car Accessories

Sandpaper

$1.95

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Three 4" X 5" sheets

Ideal for sanding your
Pinewood Derby car.

 

Body Putty for Pinewood Derby Cars
Body Putty

Includes spatula

 

$2.95
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Ideal for:

  • Filling scratches, cuts, gaps and rasp marks.
  • Adding fins, spoilers, bumps and other features to your car.
  • An all-over smooth finish.

This product is non-toxic

 

Super Glue
Super Glue
Bonds to almost anything. Sets in seconds.

$2.95
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Ideal for attaching accessories, parts and weights to your car.

Pinewood Derby Glue
Glue

Dries clear

$2.95
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Ideal for:

  • Attaching axles to your car.
  • Repairing chips and cracks on your car.

This product is non-toxic

To place your order:
1. Enter the quantity you would like to order next to each of the above items.
2. Click the "Add to Cart " button below.

 


George Myers used our Pro tools to help build his Pinewood Derby car.
He won first place in 23 heats.

 

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We used your hub tool, wheel mandrel and bore polisher when making our car. My son raced in 23 heats and won all 23 of them.  His car was the fastest and best looking of the district.  Thanks for your Help,....Kurt M


Thanks for the quick delivery. Your tools really made it much easier to get our cars ready. Jim R.

Wheel vibration will slow your pinewood derby car down. Make sure that the outside of your wheel (the part that touches the track) is as smooth as possible and that your wheel is as round as possible.

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