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shmokes:

Thank you.  The steering wheel is too big to clear the monitor so it cannot spin more than one revolution in either direction.

Funny thing is, I was drinking with the neighbors and let their 10-year-old and his friend play with it.  But I hadn't installed the steering wheel yet.  They figured out it could spin and did exactly that.  Destroyed the USB hub inside.  Completely ripped out its innards.  It also effed up the keyboard encoder.  It would just constantly send random keystrokes to the PC.  I was incredibly lucky there, though, as that keyboard encoder was already defective and the player 3 and 4 sections of it didn't work, so I already had a replacement en route, so I was only out about $20 for the USB hub.

Kayden:

Further justification for my loathing of hellspawn.   :angry:

I don't suppose you want to make a kit for me?   ;D

shmokes:

Hah!  I'm not as talented as this makes me appear.  Prior to starting this project I had zero woodworking experience (well, I had woodshop in 8th grade, but I was 13-years-old).  You just have to be careful and go really slowly and think things through and figure out how to work around obstacles.  And you'll make some ridiculous mistakes along the way.  Things like cutting on the wrong side of the line and having to start a piece over from scratch cos it's suddenly 1/8" too short.  And after a while you'll find that your brain just works better, and you think of solutions faster, and you make fewer mistakes and pretty soon you realize, "Hey . . . am I getting better at this stuff?"   ;D

At any rate, it has been a LONG time in the making.  I've taken years off at a time from the project when I got too busy with school and a new baby.  But it's finally almost complete five years later  ;) .   Probably will be finished this summer.

So . . . the upshot is, I won't make one for you, but you totally can just make one yourself.  I did and it would be impossible to have less woodworking skill than me when I started.  What I lacked in skill I made up for with this amazing community (and a fair amount of trial and error and patience :) ).

shmokes:

Oh yeah . . . and based on how long this one has taken me to finish, I'm pretty sure I'd be divorced if I started another one.   ;D

drventure:

Wow. 5 years. Now that's persistence.  :applaud:

My cab is going on two years now, and I don't even have the monitor or PC for it yet.

But, just like the Cylons, I have a plan.

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