Cub Scouts...Cars...Basic Knowledge and Mechanics...any ideas?

[norshorblufish]

Hands on is the best way to teach the young ones like that.
I was a 4H leader for auto mechanics and that's what I found was the best.

Glad you had fun too!

Tom

 

[msbaugh]

My grandfather, father and I are all Eagle Scouts! I love this... what a cool idea. Some of the coolest experiences of my life were from the boy scouts. Hiked the tallest mountain in the UK, Circled tge isle of Sky in Scottland on a mountain bike, canoed for 2 weeks in Boundary Waters Minnesota, and backpacked through the Northern Cascades in Washinton state. Amazing experiences!

 

[Oklacarcollecto]

Thanks alot, I am glad I did this, made me feel really good knowing I may have influenced some of these kids. The kids had a blast and loved the old stuff, also asked a ton of questions..the parents also said they learned some stuff too I was never in Cub Scouts but if I had done something like that as a young kid I would have been super excited too, If asked again I will gladly do it!

What you taught them will stay with them a life time. It is great that you took the time to reach out to the children. When I grew up there was a old man named Noah that was a mechanic and he would take time to teach me things on cars. My mother and father were divorced and if it hadn't been for Noah I would have never had the opportunity to be around cars to learn. My hat is off to you for taking time to do this. :headbang:

 

[66340SEDAN]

Got this today, thought it was pretty cool

I thought I would hang it on my wall :glasses7:

 

[Frankie]

As a cub scout I remember our leaders introducing us to cars and basic maintenance. One of the Den leaders owned a service station (remember them?) back then. The he went about it was to start with something very familiar to us; bicycles.

We went through the mechanics of bikes, and how we were their engine, and how the crank supplied power to the rear wheel. We went throught the various drive systems (single speed, internal 3 speed, and multi-sprocket systems, and how the gearing helped move the bike up hill easier, and such. We also went through the various break systems (coaster brakes, scrubber hand brakes, and disc hand brakes).

From bicycles we went to motorcycles, and that put the engine and transmission into the mix. From there to cars.

I believe by using bicycles as the introduction to basic auto mechanics, the instructor was able to bring us from something we knew quite well to something we would eventually come to know well. Something we used every day to something we would be using every day.

Hope that helps.