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Amazing Rubber Band Cars: Easy-to-Build Wind-Up Racers, Models, and Toys
By Mike Rigsby
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Combining fun and interactive activities, this guide will have kids captivated for hours constructing fantastic racing cars with the basics of only rubber bands, cardboard, and glue. These simple instructions with templates allow budding engineers to gain hands-on experience as they learn not only how to build a basic racer, but how to make modifications such as aluminum foil axle bearings, steering mechanisms, hinges, cam shafts,and wheels made out of old CDs. Thishelpful resource has step-by-step instructions for making a basic rubber-band model, a railroad push-car, and a high-speed racer. Other unique projects include Oscar the Laughing Clown, which has a jaw mechanism that opens and closes when it moves, and Spot the Dog, which has a moving tail. Children can even learn how to build a rubber band car big enough for a human.Exploring wheels, bearings, and friction, kids will learn not only how to make speedy racers but also the science that makes the process work.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5this book was a terrible book and was too hard for my 11-year-old son. I do not recommend this book. DO NOT READ THIS BOOK!!! IT SUCKS!!!!
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