Second Day of Construction of the mousetrap car

Once again the construction of the car did not go as smoothly as we imagined... We drilled a whole and added the four eye-hooks and then tried to cut the axle out of the wood stick we bought. We planed on connecting everything with the zip ties, but that was the part that did not work as predicted. We all of the four wheels on the axle and placed one zip tie of each side of all the wheels. The wheels did not move out of place but they did not spin faster either. Mrs. Lawrence than suggested that we used tape instead of the zip ties, and that idea in fact was a lot more effective. My partner and I also observed that the wheels were not aligned, and that might also be the reason for the them to be unstable. We took everything apart and made sure that the axle were of the same length, and started to put the same amount of tape on each end of the wood stick so that the wheels are the same distance from the car. That was when our time was done!