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dkersten:
I am sure it skips a little, but these spinners have incredibly high resolution, way more than what the game needs, so the skip is going to be one in dozens for one frame of gameplay, and hence not missed.  This is the same reason the wheel doesn't need a set screw, even though it is fairly loose just sliding it onto the spinner, in gameplay if there are any skips you just don't see it. 

I can see a dozen ways to do this in a better way, but only one way to do it for less than $20 without owning my own lathe and using parts that are a few days shipping to get.  That was a big part of the point.  I could easily take the spinner to a machine shop, have them spline the shaft, then make a female splined coupler with a 6mm shaft on top, and have a far superior extension, but that would cost me well into the $100 range.  Not worth it to me. 

Now that I have something that will work, I might just order up some of the 6mm extensions I can get from China for around $6 each.  I don't mind waiting 3-8 weeks for delivery at this point. 

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