Grandpa and Max have been hanging out in the garage working on a project together. Max had a Cub Scout Space Derby coming up and asked his Grandpa to help him, so we have spent a few nights working on the thing. We couldn't figure out at first how to sand the bulky block of wood they gave us, but we came up with the idea of putting it on the drill press. With it on the drill press, Max was able to wrap sandpaper around it an give it the sleek shape he wanted.
It was like having a lathe. It made it super easy to paint too! Just turn on the drill press a push the button on the spray paint. Max decided to name it the Max 38 Rocket. When I asked him why he wanted "38" he said, "I like it". It was a good enough reason for me.
Last night was the official race over at Max's church. Max was really proud of his rocket and Grandpa was surprised to see so many other gold colored rockets. We both thought his would be the only one there. He got to race it three times and it performed well each time.
Here it is at the start leading all the other rockets. It went so fast that I couldn't catch a picture of it as it went by. They changed the rules so that each boy had chance of winning and set an arbitrary point about 2/3 of the way down the course. The boy who came closest to that point was the winner. Even though we didn't win we had a lot of fun with Max's whole family.
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Way to go, Max! One of the funnest parts of cub scouts - it almost makes me miss being the Webelos leader. Mikey would have been so excited to see such a race - I hope the whole family enjoyed it! Way to help, Grandpa!
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