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BYO "Nasty-Spinner" UPDATE....
sharkus:
I found that an old yoyo made a great spinner top. It is well balanced and very cheap (free since I don't use it any more).
The model I used was an old cosmic yoyo (with wooden axle). I took the yoyo apart and used a 3" 4-40 threaded rod (found this at Lowes) along with some nuts and washers. (Once it was the right height I cut the rod down to size with a dremel).
It looks like cosmis yoyos are no longer around. However, I believe this is the same model (made by playmaxx):
http://yoyoplay.com/proyoii.html
Nice thing about this is that one yoyo makes two spinner tops...
-Sharkus
Generic Eric:
Has anyone tried a seagate scsi drive for the spinner parts? Thanks
MYX:
Hey, when you are done building your HD spinner, take the old HD platters onto circuit city or best buy and tell them that your hard drive wasn't working right so you took out the old platters and need new ones. Any one who knows anything about computers may get a little ill. :o
The only thing is that you have to do it with a straight face.
When I made my hard drive spinner (DHannsen HD Spinner) I encountered 2 different versions of Hard drive gutz. One would not work at all as the spinner berrings did not go all the way through the plate. It may take a couple of trys. Don't go out and buy anything fancy. Go to a second hand computer shop and see if they have any old 1 or 2 gig dead drives. Or raid that old 486 you have in the corner. Any one considering a HD spinner should do it. It is about as smooth as it gets. Just make sure that you really tighten down the knob. Kind of a pisser, when you are in heated batle in tempest and the spinner keeps spinning while you are holding the knob in your hand.
Dreded:
ok i took apart aprox. 10 different brands of OLD(sub 2gb) HD today and the WD caviar was the ONLY one with a hole on both sides
however you don't necessarily need the hole because you could carefully mount the light cutter straight the hole just helps as a guide I used White Hot glue(its stiffer when dry) and managed to get on lined up perfectly straight.... also its worth a mention that as long as it does not wobble to much it will work
and one more note is for the L-bracket since we are stealing so much from computer hardware already a back plate for a computer case works perfect it even has a screw hole so you can mount directly to platters then glue for a STRONG hold
as far as space under the control panel... i manged to get mine down to 4" x 1.5" but without cutting it would be 4"x4".... and the hole i drilled in the Control panel was 5/8" for the shaft if you wanted to you could get the footprint down to about 2.5" x 1.5" for moutning I just used the same white hot glue works great
psychotech:
Cool!
BYO/DIY spinners still live :applaud:
Made one earlier for my "hackpanel".. WD is the way to go. (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=61679.msg662703#msg662703)
Have phun :cheers:
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