[sdiy] Plastic Moulding

[harrybissell]

drilling MOUSE balls...

you pervert. I'll report to to PETA !!!    ;^P

seriously... some craft stores have small plastic balls in a range of sizes. I
don't
know what the craft use is... but they might work

H^) harry

William Inman wrote:

> Mechanical mouse ball?  It may be too heavy or too small (metal inside?),
> but there are a billion of them not being used anymore.  I have no idea
> what would happen if you tried to drill one.
>
> Elliot
>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Scott Gravenhorst <music.maker at gte.net>
> > To: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
> > Date: 1/4/2005 1:33:06 PM
> > Subject: Re: [sdiy] Plastic Moulding
> >
> > Hey Paul,
> >
> > Just a random and possibly/probably daft idea, but what about a toy ball?
> I
> > know there are compressed rubber balls (also called "super balls") of many
> > different sizes that might be drilled to fit the shaft.  A hole slightly
> > smaller than the shaft might make a nice slip on fit.  They are
> ridiculously
> > inexpensive.  Color?  I don't know how lucky you'd be at getting a grey
> one.
> >  I've seen some cool swirly multicolor ones as well as solid color.
> >
> > "Paul Maddox" <P.Maddox at signal.QinetiQ.com> wrote:
> > >Dear all,
> > >
> > > Does anyone out there know where/how I can get a couple of knobs made?
> > >I'm after a small grey plastic 'ball' to go on top of an analogue
> joystick,
> > >a bit like the old PacMan Arcade games.
> > >
> > >Paul
> > >
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