Comments on: Xbox 360 Wheel Stand – Homemade

By: Xbox 360 Maniac

Xbox 360 Maniac — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:55:08 +0000

Thanks, Ironclad.

Unfortunately, I haven’t taken the time to paint it yet. House projects taking precedence and all that.

I plan to paint it flat black though, as that will match my HT speaker cabinets.

By: Ironclad

Ironclad — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:13:05 +0000

Hey this looks great, thinking about doing something like that myself. I was wondering if you’d painted it yet and what color you are using to paint it. Do you have any updated pics with the paint on it?

By: Xbox 360 Maniac

Xbox 360 Maniac — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:10:15 +0000

The floor plate is 34″ W by 29.5″ deep, but didn’t need to be this wide. 28-30 would probably work unless you’re very large.

The side pieces are roughly 34″ long and protrude about 7″ beyond the bottom plate.

Are those the measurements you were looking for? If you need more just let me know.

By: Gaz

Gaz — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:29:12 +0000

or course i meant the overall width… not the width of the sides… ;)

By: Gaz

Gaz — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:23:43 +0000

The width and the length (at the longest point) of the sides would be great if you wouldnt mind. And the dimensions of the big floorboard if not too much trouble?
Thanks, Gaz

By: Xbox 360 Maniac

Xbox 360 Maniac — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:35:07 +0000

I don’t have anything written, I just made it up as I went. Do you have any specific dimensions you’d like me to measure?

By: Gaz

Gaz — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:14:36 +0000

Hey there.
Great wheel/pedal mount! Do you have any sizes/dimensions for it, so I can build one? I could probably build it from your pics but that might include quite a bit of trial and error on my part with lengths/angles for both the pedal riser and the wheel mount.
Thanks, Gaz

By: Matej

Matej — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:12:57 +0000

Hey! Which size torx use for remove plate?

By: Xbox 360 Maniac

Xbox 360 Maniac — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:27:29 +0000

Hi Ryyy,

Thanks for the comments.

The lap plate is held onto the wheel housing with 8 security screws on the bottom. These are torx head screws with a pin in the center preventing you from using a typical torx driver.

To remove these screws you have a couple options:

1) Buy a security screw driver of correct size.

2) Carefully break the pin off inside each screw, then use a regular torx driver.

3) Carefully remove the screw with a precision screwdriver.

What I ended up doing was #3 which result in a lot of #2. Heh. A precision screwdriver, which I had on hand, would fit into the screw behind the pin and grab onto the torx corners. Carefully working the screw out often broke the pin, requiring the next size up in precision screwdriver or torx driver.

It took some patience and working with it, but I got them out this way and saved the cost of the driver. You can probably find a driver for $10 or so online plus shipping.

By: Ryyy

Ryyy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:02:39 +0000

Hey! Great basic looking wheel stand. I have a question. How did you remove the lap piece? I’m staring at it scratching my head!