Dowel Height?

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Dowel Height?

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Very basic question:

There is no minimum height for the wooden dowel, right? I couldn't find any reference to one in the rules. Having always needed a ~20cm or so high dowel in the past for vehicle-based events, this feels kind of strange to me. Just looking to confirm that this is correct.
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Orion66 wrote:Very basic question:

There is no minimum height for the wooden dowel, right? I couldn't find any reference to one in the rules. Having always needed a ~20cm or so high dowel in the past for vehicle-based events, this feels kind of strange to me. Just looking to confirm that this is correct.
Right! I thought this was weird as well, but as it turns out the dowel just needs to be within 1cm of the floor and the height doesn't matter.
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Im really confused. The dowel has to be within a cm of the track? How do you do that?
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Otkrlj wrote:Im really confused. The dowel has to be within a cm of the track? How do you do that?
Like stick the dowel somewhere on your vehicle (with glue, tape, whatever) so the bottom of the dowel, vertically, is less than 1 cm off the ground.
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Ok thanks
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Don't understand how to comply with 1cm from track and perpendicular to track rules. Seems like the mouse traps would then need to be around 1cm from floor?
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madeline.hartlage wrote:Don't understand how to comply with 1cm from track and perpendicular to track rules. Seems like the mouse traps would then need to be around 1cm from floor?
We are seporating our mousetraps and putting the dowel through the gap so it will be 1cm off the ground when the dowel is perpendicular to the floor
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Otkrlj wrote:
madeline.hartlage wrote:Don't understand how to comply with 1cm from track and perpendicular to track rules. Seems like the mouse traps would then need to be around 1cm from floor?
We are seporating our mousetraps and putting the dowel through the gap so it will be 1cm off the ground when the dowel is perpendicular to the floor
Will the dowel be touching the cup as it pushes it along?
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Ya the dowel will be touching the cup at the start
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