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Submitted by Sarah on Mon, 04/14/2008 - 12:20pm.
Members of the community are encouraged to build your own racers to "compete" in the races, which will be held in our back yard Saturday, April 26th! This sounds so fun, both to create, compete, and to watch. Get the story through Olympia Salvage and info and guidelines at Hazard Factory.
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Speed and Power Always!
Submitted by Paul on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 8:56am.Well, ok, that's a little over the top. I think it was the motto of some long-forgotten motorcycle club.
We (Tim, Laura and I) are building a router motor driven dragster. The thing is nasty. Frightening. Two exposed circular saw blades will drive it recklessly down the plywood track. Weeeeee!
Been looking forward to trying this for some time, ever since the Discovery Channel ran a series of half-hour shows on the original group in San Francisco who starting this thing, holding their races annually in a local junk yard. Heaven for us gear heads with too much time on our hands.
Come watch us race!
When I feed the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. - Dom Helder Camara, Archbishop of Recife, Brazil
Fast tools are my gig......
Submitted by w1r3d1 on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 7:52pm.I was thinking about making something
Submitted by security_six on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 8:19pm.Out of one of those nailers that use .22 blanks to drive nails into concrete, or something running off of compressed air... but no tools and no time.
"Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA. Ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State." - Heinrich Himmler 1936some race results
Submitted by Sarah on Thu, 05/22/2008 - 8:38pm.