DIY Fidget Spinners How to Make Fidget Spinner Buttons

By Jeff Weidner

Did you lose another fidget spinner button? Or did you break off a little tab that holds that button on to the center bearing? Now what? Make a new set yourself with this DIY Fidget Spinner button instruction book. Everything you need to know about how to make your own fidget spinner buttons, proper weight placement and jigs to assist you making your own fidget spinner toys.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jeff Weidner
• Release date: Jun 16, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370371846

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DIY Fidget Spinners

How to Make Fidget Spinner Buttons, Finger Caps, Weights and Jigs at home.

By

Jeff Weidner

Copyright

Copyright © 2017 by Jeff Weidner

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Safety Tips and Gear

Chemicals

Measurements

Finger buttons

Project 1: Flush Mount Finger Buttons

Project 2: Recessed and Full Hole Buttons

Project 3: Shaping Buttons

Project 4: Dowel Options

Weights

Bearings

Project 1: Bearings

Metal Balls

Aluminum Bar

Project

Taper Pins

Jigs

Taper Pin Jig

90 Degree Angle Hole Cutting Jig

Aluminum Bar Cutoff Jig

Dowel Cutting Jig

Router Bit Storage Rack

Lazy Susan Paint Stand for Spinners

Sanding Dowel

Conclusion

Resource Guide

Where to buy

What to Buy

Introduction

We are not interested in making cheap knock off spinners out of popsicle sticks, duct tape, PVC pipe, nuts and bolts. There’s nothing wrong with that, we’ve even done it but it’s just not our preference. If you read our first book, DIY Fidget Spinners, How to Make Fidget Spinner Toys at Home on Amazon at http://a.co/9nnimeN you know we love exotic hardwoods, we like solid metal bearings and hand-crafted buttons. We like a fidget spinner that looks good, spins fast and has some weight to it so it feels good in your hand. We feel this makes a beautiful spinner fidget toy worth holding on to. Most people that are making DIY fidget spinners focus on the body of the spinner. While important, there are other design and function aspects to consider.

You know those round discs on each side of the spinner that you can hold on to when you spin the spinner? Those are called finger buttons or finger caps. If you’ve owned a spinner toy for any period of time, you’ve probably have lost or broken a button. Worse yet is when you lose a weight or secondary bearing, now what. You effectively turned your spinner into a wobbler. Granted, you have a cool wobbler but you really want a spinner. Now what do you do? Throw it out and buy a new one? Most likely, but in this book, I’m going to show you how you can use a variety of items commonly found at your local hardware store that can serve the place of the finger buttons or lost weights.

The finger buttons got their name because some DIYer used two coat buttons and a dowel to make the spinner buttons. End caps came in when the people using 3D printers got into the game. End caps are just flat pieces of plastic that snap on to the rim of the inner race of the center ball bearing.

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