I made this tool for repainting Spinners

[cardwwi]

I took a small geared motor out of a old projector, mounted it on a small board with a battery pack, put a piece of rubber hose over the end and used a small spring for tension. I cut the head off a brass nail and place it just close enough for the spinner to touch. I also took a piece of plywood and nailed in some brass nails then cut off the heads to hold the spinners so I can spay paint the base coat on all at the same time and to hold them for drying. It still needs some tweaking but works better than I hoped. I use paint stripper and evapo rust to remove the old paint and rust, enamel model paint for the repainting of the spinners.

[JACKSJE4]

Really Cool!! It sure beats using a variable speed drill on low speed.

Very inventive!!

[mxfaiman]

Really Cool!! It sure beats using a variable speed drill on low speed.

Never thought about doing that. I just go and tap them all in a board and spin them by hand. (This way you can show off you painting skills )

Great idea either way. (Though doesn't the motor take off the paint on the edges?)

[d mowery]

Cool

[emmadog]

Good idea and the next step is to fashion a holder for the paint brush, paint pen so that the border and center color's edges are perfect and consistently round.

[WondersPachi]

Never thought about doing that. I just go and tap them all in a board and spin them by hand. (This way you can show off you painting skills )

Great idea either way. (Though doesn't the motor take off the paint on the edges?)

Rubber?

[CarlW]

How about selling the repainted ones on your site? Or maybe just a repainting price? At least the shipping would be reasonable.

[Sid]

awesome

[Rival]

The real challenge for repainting spinners has never been finding something that will rotate, but rather finding a way to affix the spinners to a shaft in a manner that will ensure it is centered enough to provide reasonably centered stripes and circles.

I use a variable speed drill, but with a shaft that screws into the spinner base (from a dremel kit).

That said, it is neat to see how inventive people can become in trying to solve a problem.

[emmadog]

Wouldn't screwing the drill collet onto the spinner's shaft center it as if it were a drill bit?

[Rival]

It would if you could find a drill whose collet would actually grasp the outside of the spinner. I never found one.

[chmer01]

This beats toothpicks stuck into styrofoam and them painting them by hand.