Amazing Rubber Band Cars: Easy-to-Build Wind-Up Racers, Models, and Toys
The Basic Rubber Band Car In this chapter you will learn will learn how to build a basic cardboard car powered by rubber bands Materials and Tools 1 8 inch thick corrugated cardboard Scissors Pushpin 2 round pencils White glue 2 rubber bands D cell battery Time to get started Copy the templates from pages 11 and 12 onto cardboard You will need one
Floor 1A two Frames 1B two Side Rails 1C and four wheels 1D Cut all the pieces from a sec tion of corrugated cardboard Take care to make the wheels as round as possible Use the pushpin to mark the center point of the holes for the pencils on the two frame pieces The wheels and the frame need axle holes While you could use a hole punch to create these in the frame no ordinary hole punch will reach to the cen ter of the wheels Instead take a pushpin and insert it into the center point of the wheel Then remove the pushpin and insert a pencil Each pencil on your cardboard car works like the axle on a real car A car's axle allows the wheel to turn without spinning the body of the
ade wheels Continue pushing the pencil until it passes through the cardboard When making the holes in wheels you want a snug fit In other words when the pencil turns the wheel should turn as well Now make the axle holes in the frame pieces It is best if the holes are big and loose since the pencils need to turn freely in the frame when the axles turn the frame should not turn Move the pencil left right up and down to make the axle holes in the frames
Glue the floor to the two frame pieces Place glue wherever cardboard touches cardboard Next glue the side rails to the frame The side rails go inside the frame on both sides It's time to attach the wheels to the axles Push one of the wheels over a pencil and slide it close to the eraser end Place glue around the pencil close to the
