| The what? That's right the paint can go kart. | | | | every time I tell the story! |
| When I was about 12 years old, my friend Willy | | | | You may be wondering, what does this hilarious story |
| came over one day and we decided to go out to | | | | have to do with real go karts? |
| the house that they were building down the street | | | | Everything... |
| and rummage through the "to be burned pile." | | | | The biggest fun about a joke, or a funny event is |
| There were all sorts of goodies: nails, boards and | | | | the fact that some law of some sort has been |
| paint cans. | | | | violated, and the violation of it is so outrageous, we |
| I don't know what came over me, but I thought we | | | | can only but help ourselves from laughing. |
| could make a go kart out of all this stuff. | | | | The story was funny because multiple areas of Go |
| So we busily started constructing the basic two by | | | | Kart good design practice were tossed to the wind: |
| four go kart layout (good thing I brought my | | | | See if you can catch what areas really needed help in |
| hammer along!) | | | | the story: |
| Then it came down to wheels. What do we do for | | | | -Nails for Axel |
| wheels? So I took four nails and pounded them into | | | | -Paint cans for wheels |
| the center of a paint can directly into the two by | | | | -Paint cans flying off |
| four axial post. | | | | -Go Kart Scraping on the ground |
| I put four paint cans on the go kart and walla! Instant | | | | Quite honestly we may all rush at the poor paint can, |
| paint can go kart. | | | | but in reality it was the nails and the fact that the |
| We got it out to the street and Willy sat on it and I | | | | paint can had such a thin wall. |
| started pulling, and pulling and pulling. We got that | | | | The paint can could have worked if an axel tube |
| thing going about 10 miles per hour when all of a | | | | were inserted in between the two lids. In fact it |
| sudden the painted cans started coming off one by | | | | would probably have lasted quite a while. |
| one. | | | | But the nails, not having enough bending load stress, |
| By the time we got to our house we had two front | | | | even though 4 nails were coupled to make an axel, |
| paint cans and no back paint cans! The centers had | | | | they were not enough to keep the "paint can wheels |
| wallowed out so much that the paint cans fell off, | | | | on." |
| other than they worked beautifully. | | | | The moral of the story: understand your mechanical |
| Willy said that was the funnest and funniest day of | | | | structures, or at least learn from those failures, and |
| his life. | | | | laugh in the process. |
| I would concur, I can hardly stop laughing about it | | | | |