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Hey RandyT, How about a steering wheel?!

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Dizzle:

Maybe it wouldn't have to connect directly to the spinner.
I'm thinking some sort of friction wheel or gear-like set up if you can picture what I'm trying to articulate.

Dunno if that's more trouble than it's worth though....

GadgetGeek:


--- Quote from: Dizzle on February 23, 2006, 09:25:30 pm ---Maybe it wouldn't have to connect directly to the spinner.
I'm thinking some sort of friction wheel or gear-like set up if you can picture what I'm trying to articulate.

Dunno if that's more trouble than it's worth though....

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I'm been trying to work out something along those lines as well.  That would likely take the stress off the shaft.  Problem I keep running into is how to attach it to the CP so that it is easily removable, but still keeping sufficient pressure on the knob to have a consistent response.  These have been mental only, nothing committed to paper and no prototypes have been assembled.

Dizzle:

Well, I plan on starting to build another couple of compact upright cabs with a friend of mine, and I plan to include a spinner on 'em.  We may take a stab at some sort of steering wheel -- I'll let you know if we come up with anything feasible.

Teebor:


If you mounted the steering wheel at an angle and the mount the spinner below in its normall orientation.

By then placing the spinner in the correct orientation (vertically) you could place gearing on the top of the spinner that would mesh with the gears from the sterring wheel.

Then you could restict and weight the steering wheel independantly from the spinner as you saw fit.  This would prevent the steering wheel feeling light.

However you would have to reverse the outputs from the spinner if only using two meshing gears.

quarterback:


--- Quote from: Dizzle on February 23, 2006, 09:25:30 pm ---Maybe it wouldn't have to connect directly to the spinner.
I'm thinking some sort of friction wheel or gear-like set up if you can picture what I'm trying to articulate.
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Something like this?





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