Rubber Band Car With Cd Wheels

To wind up the car hold the car with the back axle toward you and turn the front wheels counterclockwise.

Rubber band car with cd wheels.

Then get 4 cds and glue a wooden spool to one side of each cd and a button to the other side. The materials required for this task are. Fit rubber band chain through the holes in the middle of tube. Finally to give your wheels added traction attach rubber bands around the cd wheels four on each wheel.

Tie remaining rubber band tightly around the push pins. Begin by drilling a hole in the spools and 2 holes in the wood. Now place the cd on the washer. If the wheels.

Tie 2 rubber bands together. Then add another washer and secure it by screwing on a bolt. Use the rubber band s on the dvd wheels for traction if needed no limit on the rubber band. On one of the toothpicks drill a very small hole in the center.

Rubber bands are a convenient and effective way to teach energy transformation and this rubber band car makes that lesson a blast. Once the hole is drilled you will place the toothpick ends the point that you cut off to make a peg see picture below. Or like gary says above use rubber cement. I bet you could make a pretty tough torsion spring out of a bicycle tube rubber a heavy map tube cardboard.

Do this by stuffing a piece of sponge into the hole in the middle of the cd then using tape to secure the cd and prevent it from wobbling. The holes in the wheels will be drilled just large enough for the toothpick to fit snug. I ve made these cars with groups of kids at library programs several times and it s always lots of fun. Then place a washer on the screw.

Push rubber down to one end of the tube. 2 thread spools long piece of thing wood 4 cd s 2 screws 2 washers and 2 bolts. You ll need a paper towel tube two old cds a couple of pencils o. A quick google search for rubber band car project yields tens of thousands of results so why reinvent the rubber band powered wheel the top results show cars with small wheels without traction or cd wheels which are difficult to attach to an axel both of.

To make a rubber band car start by inserting 2 dowels through a cardboard tube 1 at each end for the axles on your car. Build a rubber band powered car. This is an easy to make rubberband car using a paper towel tube for the body.