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paigeoliver:
Aftermarket grant wheels are actually MUCH higher quality and more heavy duty than original arcade wheels.
SirPeale:
You can get a liquid rubber coating in a bottle.  For a steering wheel it would likely be a bit tricky.  Last I saw, you have to dip your part into the coating, wait for it to dry, and then repeat.  This is for the handle part of tools.  Since the steering wheel is much bigger you would need a lot of this stuff.

That's why I would get one of the fancy steering wheel covers.  I like the ones that are a strip of leather that wraps around the wheel with a lace to secure it.
MinerAl:
I dunno... i think if you were patient and consistent you could rubber coat the wheel with just a narrow pan, maybe like a metal pan you can get at the grocery store.  Dump the rubber handle stuff in the pan and slowly rotate the wheel through the pan, so that only a few inches long arc of the wheel is submerged at any one time, but the rotating should build up a nice even coat if you could go around two or three times.

Or you could get a round pan just a little bigger around than the wheel and use clay or something to make an island in the middle so that you only had to fill a wheel sized moat.  Then you could repeatedly dip into the rubber filled moat.  I'd still recommend slow rotation to keep drips from solidifying into points on the wheel.

Then again I've only ever dipped tools into the stuff.  I've never played with it.  I think it'd be worth trying anyway.
menace:
whats the name of this stuff?  is it available at home depot or stores like that?
MinerAl:
http://www.plastidip.com/consumer/products.html

There's an aerosol version... hmm...
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