These 'side' projects to the locomotive have me hooked. I was mildly affronted when Part 2 of the Raffle Wheel was missing last week. Flywheels in motion are mesmerizing no?

Love this video! Where did you get that ER32 collet holder for your lathe?

I think Quinn's lever-with-spring-straight-down idea would have worked if the lever was much shorter than the pointer (give the pointer mechanical advantage over the lever instead of the other way around)

I do not consider it cheater shame , I think of it as ingenuity. And dealing with the current situation.

I was hoping you'd do the joke of putting $$$ on and spinning up that prize, then getting super excited, only to realise that you're the one who's paying out the prize money and you're too broke to pay yourself out!

Was facing off that hex brass in accordance with tradition?

I am a male and you are a female but the chamfer is what separates us from the animals. Your brain is beautiful and I am attracted to you.

Instead of a 5 part hinge, you can do it with 4 parts. You make the middle two parts the same (round stock with a hole drilled in the middle) but you make the outside part out of double length stock. You then turn down the middle of the second part into a pin that fits inside the hole. Welding the parts in place with the barrel pieces to the middle and the pins on the outside facing towards the middle keeps the parts in place, but so long as you keep everything aligned, it'll work as a hinge with one fewer parts.

I love the fact that you say this is the way that you are doing this; not like others who say this is the ultimate beast and only way. I wish they would have told me that 55 years ago. But I hadn’t programmed the computer to upset, except that possibility.

As another possibility for a system to stop the wheel, a set of magnets around the rim and then a magnet in the pointer.

Laughing so hard at 26:42, I'm crying.

That was extremely fun! Right up to pointer of …death…

@6:54 - only lower count hinge I can think of is a blacksmith half pintle hinge at just 2 components (3 if you count the welded in pintle)

Minimum viable pointer! "I get that references" (I'm also a SWE).

I'm an Australian in my 50s, and I've always known these as a chocolate wheel. Unfortunately, I have no idea why they were called that.

I made something like this as a joke during my apprenticeship, but you know massive (it ended up being bolted to our radial drill) but I used a bit of rubber for the pointer it was the simplest option. It provided us so much entertainment until we were made redundant 12 months later when the plant shut down. I also installed a small pneumatic cylinder so I could stop it where I wanted 😂 took them 3 weeks to realize I could stop it where I wanted it to stop.

Good video Blondiehacks

Quinn, stop that cussin 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I mean for a lower part count hinge, you can always form a piano-hinge. Thin the edge of the plate, form that into one half of the hinge, then use another piece of material as your other hinge, add the pin (mush one end down and then tap it if you want to keep the screw retention. 2 additional components. ( Pask makes, 'How to easily make Hinges - including the Jig' video of him making a die to do this) Simpler to do than what you did? Probably not. But you asked for lower part count, not more simple to do. So enjoy the "well acktchually" response, you engagement farmer, you.

I was hoping to see the various mechanisms you'd try to ensure house domination. Kids or not they need to learn the realities of life and there's not a veggie vendor out there above leaning on the wheel! Farmer's markets are cutthroat.

Bartertown Crowd: "Two men enter, one man leave!"

"Minimum Viable Pointer" - 😂! That's really dangerous given that your material was all taken from the Garbage Collection scrap bin. Segmentation errors await. But I did love the angle of the wheel - clear demonstration of Lean principles.

Yay!! It's Blondihacks time!!!

When do we meet the puppy?

Sounds like you're making this for Bar Z Bash, have fun!

If your vinyl cutter can handle thick materials, it can cut precision gaskets.

Awesome job, looks amazing and your fabricobbling process was impeccable. I've made a couple of these, one absolutely had to look like the Wheel of Fortune setup so I used a torsion spring (think clothespin) embedded in the back of a free-moving pointer. Every other time I've used a playing card. If they worked in our bike spokes they'll work for this.

I was thinking maybe a light torsion spring on the back of the pointer. No need for extra counterbalance weight then. Also was a little disappointed that there was no "Cake" next to the "Death" option.

Puppies' ? what did Sprocket say ? Quinn great project!

Lowest part count hinge i've seen is a forged one. Blackbear forge has some videos. They might be more work though

MVP == Minimum Viable Pointer? We've been doing software development all wrong all this time. We only need to deliver a reference to the product, not the actual product! :P

I'm like "1.13 ton are you for real?!" then resumed playback and a little "yes really" jumps up on the screen 😂

I found a whole bunch of these things on Amazon for about thirty bucks, give or take, but unlike yours they seem unlikely to survive the coming nuclear apocalypse.

It is cheating, but if on a time crunch you can buy weld-on 'bullet hinges' fairly cheaply including ones with grease nipples and brass bushings

You shall hehenceforth be known as Gargamel.

So fun! only wonder if you could make pins screw in so its even flatter pack

I was really happy to hear that chamfers separating us from the animals line make a comeback. I missed that so much.

MIG rather than TIG? My machining goddess has feet of clay! (Only when it comes to fabrication: not that my welding is anything to be proud of.)

"That looks like a result" -Quin Dunki 2024

Those pins need some safety cap-nuts

Having also over-engineered a raffle wheel once, I also settled on using a flexure. I used a piece of plastic shim stock, something like 0.025. Works great and makes the requisite "tick tick" noise.

Important: "Vinyl Whiteboard Contact Paper" can be sung to the TMNT theme

WAIT. Wait wait wait. Once of the wheel choices isn't "Yahtzee". Disappoint.

Because I’m a masochist i would have made a multi-way pointer that was geared and cammed to the wheel so one pointer is always pointing into the selection. A separate piece would make the clicking sound.

Admittedly, I was ready to be bored with this one. I was not! Several new techniques and reminders of childhood memories, win win thanks to Quinn 😮

Everyone knows the choices are "Death or Cake"

Bolt was Boeing new old stock with fake titanium designed for being torqued the wrong end...and you torque the good end... Good thing your workshop window didn't fall out... 😂

I would have thought that the pointer would be parallel to the pins, and use the plastic’s natural sproinginess to act as the spring...

Most people who live near a farm are after eggs and potatoes....Quinn goes straight for the scrap metal..!

Replace the rubber with a tension spring and use a plastic or wooded tip that interacts with the rods. You could hide it behind a fixed arrow.