Steering Wheel Finished!
Here it is, immortalised with my atrocious photography skills! It's made mostly out of some old tongue-and-groove flooring samples, with some 4mm and 6mm ply in places. What with the heavy-duty bearings and being screwed together, it's actually a really robust little thing! I decided to have a composite axle so I could fit the button wires down the centre. So I cut two long, thin beams of ply so they could fit through the very centre of the bearings. Then I cut small sections out of the edges so that when pushed away from each other, they would lock into the bearings (i.e. not slide through them). The other blocks you can see are holding the two long pieces apart so they can't fall out. I swapped out the middle block with a spring mechanism. I cut two bits of ply that I could slide onto the beams from opposite sides. Then I inserted a section of bamboo skewer between those bits to hook the springs onto. As you can see, I used screws to secure the other ends of the spr