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Best and easiest home built spinner plans
DeathDealer:
Im building one, not yet finish, out of VCR parts, that part that spins inside the VCR that has the head, if you find a VCR in the street and open it you will see what Im talking about. Its a Shining silver "wheel" about 2.5" diameter. will post picture when done.
Lilwolf:
I liked the idea someone had using a inline skate wheel.
nighthawk2099:
--- Quote from: pmc on April 08, 2004, 09:48:50 pm ---Does it have to be a Western Digital Caviar drive to have bearings that will work? I have lots of old (and probably broken) 10MB to 40MB Quantum and Apple SCSI drives circa 1987-1992.
My feeling is, if you have the bearing mech already, why not try it? You can always save face by buying and Oscar after failure. ;-D
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I used an old Maxtor 500 mb drive, so it doesn't really matter. I tried a couple of 4g/6g drives (don't remember the make) and they didn't have the correct spindle/bearing thingy ( :P love that tech talk) you see in the pictures. It's sort of a trial and error. I'd try the older ones first (don't have to worry about screwing them up) then work your way up.
ErikRuud:
I read through all the spinner plans that were available at the time.
I liked Nathan's Cheep spinner the best, but I simplified things a little.
I did not want to have a mounting plate at all, so I used a piar of flanged bearings that I got at Ace Hardware. They are mounted in a 1-1/8" hole in my CP. I also hand cut the encoder from a flat sheet of plastic using the template from nathan's instructions. The way Nathan did it seemed to be a lot more work.
I don't remember the exact total, but I spent less than $35.00 on my spinner, including the knob and mouse.
Edgedamage:
--- Quote from: DeathDealer on April 09, 2004, 01:41:53 am ---Im building one, not yet finish, out of VCR parts, that part that spins inside the VCR that has the head, if you find a VCR in the street and open it you will see what Im talking about. Its a Shining silver "wheel" about 2.5" diameter. will post picture when done.
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"silver wheel"=Scanner