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This is about making my car. I was absent when we made our motors, so when they were taking all the pictures, I didn't have any pictures of my motor. I made one while I was absent after everyone else made theirs, but never brought it in. I used a battery, magnet, wire, paperclips(that I stretched out and made them straight) and things to hold the wire that spins because of the paperclips attached to the battery.

Then it was time to make our cars. We were given a kit with instructions on how to make our cars. I made most of my car, but when I was walking with the car in my backpack, the back of my car that holds the gear, broke off. Also, one of my wheels in the front of my car broke off. So when I took my car into class, Mrs. Jankowski and Mr. Jacobson told me I had to make a new one out of my own things. They gave us all new wheels, which were like mini CD's or DVD's to use, since the other ones were very breakable. They also supplied me with crafting styrofoam to use as the base of my new car. I used my old axles that I put the old wheels on for my new wheels because they fit on the new wheels also. I cut the styrofoam a little smaller so that the wheels would fit on the car. I cut a hole in the styrofoam to put the gear through since there wasnt a lot of room on the outside of the car to fit the wheels. But the gear didnt fit and the car wouldn't move! I brought in my car to class to explain my problem and found out I needed to put something around the axles that I can glue or tape to the styrofoam so the axles could move. I got large plastic straws to put the axles in. But then they told me I needed to get new axles because there wasn't enough room for the wheels. I went to Ace Hardware and we asked the person trying to help is if they had anything that I could use to put the wheels on. They didn't seem to know what we meant, and showed us things for a different type of car. They tried showing me these really long wooden poles, but I told them I needed something metal, and my dad wasn't sure what I needed or what I meant when I said I needed something like an azle or metal pool to put my wheels on to attach to my car. He took my home because he wasn't sure what I needed and kept asking for directions, which I told him didn't come with this, I needed to make it on my own without directions. I still need to find axles, and then Ikjust need to attach my wheels to the axles and put the straw around it and attach those parts to my car, and I'll be finished. So, as you can see, making this car is a lot harder then I thought it would be when I first got the kit to make my wooden car.

But I did make a car recently. I used the styrofoam I talked about earlier. I used the same CD wheels, the same motor and battery, and the same gear. I went to Menards and got stuff to use for my axles. It came as one long axle and I had to get something else to cut it into two different axles to use. I thought I had my car done, but the wheels still wouldn't move right. I went in and Mr. J told me I did everything right, but the straws were to large, so the wheels weren't moving right. He gave me smaller straws to use and we tried running it but one of the wheels flew off and went straight but without the rest of the car. The wheel hub had cracked.