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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.

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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). 

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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). 

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I wonder if you meant Nathan Strum's "Cheep Spinner"?
http://www.arcadecontrols.com/arcade_spinners.shtml#strum

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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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