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| Thenasty:
--- Quote from: _Kid Kye_ on June 01, 2005, 05:55:46 pm ---Thenasty still hasn't gotten back to me on mine. If only there were a way to mass produce the components needed to make the spinners. To avoid having to destroy old Hard Drives. --- End quote --- Hard to keep an eye out the a Western Digital hard drives. I keep going to places/dumpters etc...to look and none I see or is not the right one. |
| Kremmit:
--- Quote from: KenToad on June 01, 2005, 06:12:51 pm ---Tiger-Heli's advice is good IMO. Also, do a search for Twisty-Grip's Spinner plans. At least I think that's the name I remember. I built a spinner for about $10 using his plans. There is a PDF document that has his instructions and also printable encoder wheels at various resolutions (meaning notches). --- End quote --- I wonder if you meant Nathan Strum's "Cheep Spinner"? http://www.arcadecontrols.com/arcade_spinners.shtml#strum |
| Tiger-Heli:
--- Quote from: Kremmit on June 02, 2005, 02:48:22 am --- --- Quote from: KenToad on June 01, 2005, 06:12:51 pm ---Tiger-Heli's advice is good IMO. Also, do a search for Twisty-Grip's Spinner plans. At least I think that's the name I remember. I built a spinner for about $10 using his plans. There is a PDF document that has his instructions and also printable encoder wheels at various resolutions (meaning notches). --- End quote --- I wonder if you meant Nathan Strum's "Cheep Spinner"? http://www.arcadecontrols.com/arcade_spinners.shtml#strum --- End quote --- No, he meant the twisty-grip design, but it's available further down the page on the link Kremmit provided. (I think the printable encoder wheels were from the Cheep Spinner, though). |
| nostrebor:
If designed correctly, and if your woodworking skills and tools are up to the task, you can make a cabinet out of 1/2" MDF with no fasteners through the sides. My cabinet is 4' tall, and made from 5/8" MDF with dados and wood glue construction. I've built 2 this way, and would expect either to hold up to abuse considerably better than the "wood strips and screws" method. Check out my "Shorty" Pac-Man project thread for details/pics. http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,25002.0.html |
| ErikRuud:
I used the Cheep Spinner instructions as the basis for my spinner. I made some changes along the way, using sheet styrene for the spinner and I used differnt bearings that allowed me to mount them directly into my CP without the extra steel plates or any visible screws. |
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