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| JODY:
I bought a 360 steering wheel off Ebay. |
| NoOne=NBA=:
You can probably make it work fine from that point, provided that you can: 1) Mount an encoder wheel in place of the existing gear. This will probably require shims, to get the encoder wheel far enough out from the base to mount the optic card, and possibly to keep the wheel from pulling in and out on you. 2) Build a mount to get the optic card into the proper position. The gears on most of the wheels were designed to make the large toothed encoder wheels spin faster, so that more teeth would go through the optics. If you can mount one of Oscar's aftermarket large encoder wheels onto the shaft, the gearing will probably be unnecessary, and mounting the optic card should be pretty easy. All the 360 games are playable with a standard spinner, AFAIK. This means that you would basically be making a really big spinner out of your wheel. |
| JODY:
That will work. Don't know why I kept thinking about the small encoder wheel like was originally on it. |
| armax:
Jody, if you dont mind me asking, what project are you working on? I noticed a wide range of controls on other posts. Sounds interesting. |
| ratabase1:
If you don't mind, who was the seller on eBay? This sounds a lot like what happened to me back in August. I bought a Pole Position Control panel that was said to be in excellent condition and complete. The picture even looked excellent. But when I received it, it was not the one in the picture. It was rusted, missing the gear shift, a complete mess compared to the one listed in the auction. I complained to the seller and he offered to let me keep the piece of junk, and refund my money, but I really wanted the control panel from the auction, because it was in nice shape and had the gear shifter I needed. Took several weeks of me bugging them, but he finally sent a decent control panel. Said he don't know what happened to the original??? I don't know how much you paid for yours, but I think in my case what happened was I got the control at such a low price on eBay, he didn't want to sell me a good one at that price. I did notice later that other people left him negative feedback for pulling the same stunt on them. |
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