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Xam:


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--- Quote from: MYX on April 21, 2006, 08:01:09 am ---One last thing bout the platters. if you get a piece of string so you can suspend them and ding them into each other. They have amazing tone. (Sorry sound guy geek thing). If you hold them you dampen them too much to get a pure tone. They need to be able to vibrate.

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Somewhere at home I have a platter from an old IBM mainframe drive.  I think it is about 10" inches in diameter.  The tone it produces is really cool.

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LOL! Imagine the footprint that spinner would have!

Xam

quarterback:


--- Quote from: MYX on April 21, 2006, 12:06:40 pm ---
--- Quote from: quarterback on April 21, 2006, 11:22:35 am ---
--- Quote from: MYX on April 21, 2006, 08:01:09 am ---Wow, Dhansen is on the boards, havn't seen you for a while. Welcome bro.
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That post was made in 2003

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My bad, never mind.  :-[

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Tee hee :)

FWIW, he has posted a few times in 2006, and was last logged on on April 15th, so you weren't completely off base

ahofle:


--- Quote from: MYX on April 21, 2006, 08:01:09 am ---The fun thing is to then take the hard drive platters to IncompUSA or best buy and find the nerdiest guy there(someone who seems to really know about computers). Take the platters to him and say "My hard drive wasn't working right, so I took these out and was hoping that you could give me some that work". Then watch as this idea of someone taking the platters out of the HD sinks into his head.

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That's a great idea.  I'm going to take some platters in with a hacksaw and ask if they can help me with a low level partition. LOL

Capthowdy:


--- Quote from: NinjaEpisode on April 21, 2006, 07:38:31 am ---Capthowdy, you want the Nasty Spinner:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=17522.0

It'll help you figure out some of the nuances of this hack.  You can always rethread the area instead of trying to find that size bolt.

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hmm...well that didn't work.  In the process of rethreading the hole...I expanded the shaft and made the spinner useless.  I think I'm giving up on the whole diy spinner thing.  It's just too frustrating and I think I've spent about half of what it would've cost me for a real one and I have nothing to show for it.

MYX:


--- Quote from: Capthowdy on April 22, 2006, 01:18:05 pm ---It's just too frustrating and I think I've spent about half of what it would've cost me for a real one and I have nothing to show for it.

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Yes you do. Lots of worthless garbage.  ;)
Actually, keep the parts, buy a real one, then explain to your friends how you made it, ant what you have right now was merly the mark 1 version.  ;D

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