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With this guide I will explain how to build a wheel for playing the races on your phone. I have studied the following procedures, as always, to be rea...
1° Draw the design on the 15 mm plywood and then place your phone in the middle, draw the shape taking into account the thickness of the coating of th...
2 ° Cut out the whole shape of the steering wheel. Place the template on the plywood cut to 10 mm, and copy the profile except the home phone. Now cut...
3 ° Sand good for the phone housing with sandpaper. At this point you must glue the two steering wheels with white glue (PVA glue). With clamps block ...
4 ° While the glue dries, prepare the two brackets. I used a piece of poroflex, but you can also use plywood, plexiglass, lexan, etc. The important th...
5° Hour Cut two pieces of wood about 50 mm long obtained from large skewers or even better by chopsticks.
6 ° If the glue is well dried, you have to to level the two parts glued together to obtain a single profile. To do this you must use rasps, files and ...
7° Now with patience, you should encourage all the profile using files and sandpaper, so you get a wheel more ergonomic and round.
8 ° Detect the distance to the speaker of your phone, bring it on the bottom of the 'central housing and executed a bore of 15 mm. This is necessary t...
9 ° Now you can paint the wheel. If you do, you must first fill and polish, then apply one coat of sealer and polish it, then give the first coat of p...
10 ° At this point you have to coat the housing to avoid damaging your precious phone. Glued to a strip of material thin and soft on the edges. I used...
11 ° Cut the cardboard to adjust the seat depth of the phone to ensure that once entered the phone, it protrudes 1 to 2 mm.
12 ° Coat the bottom with the same sidewall material, glued with vinyl glue.
13 ° At this point we have to give a sporty at the wheel, I used the black paracord, but can be anything you want, soft rubber, duct tape, and if you ...
14 ° Mounting brackets: Insert the elastic through the two holes of the bracket, threaded holes in a piece of rope that you insert into the holes of t...
At this point your wheel is terminated. I entered the wood screws with a big head to give a final touch at the wheel.
Done!, Now you can enter the phone simply by lifting the brackets. As you can see by inverting the wheel, the phone stays firmly in its slot.
Good luck and enjoy.
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