Cabella Porqupine Balls

[Ebuechner]

I may have to put one of those on my list of things to build.

[babybear]

What I mean   Put a pinwheel on a spinner and it does not look proper. Now take the spinner and put it into its own group then put the pinwheel effect on it and it looks proper. the same with circles/radial 

[babybear]

early in this post I have a drawing of my center hub made out of steel. I just did not trust the plastic ones.

[Ebuechner]

I may have to try one of the plastic ones first. I engineer lot of different things so I may have to pick up one of those balls to see what I could do with it before I go to the extreme of welding one together.

[babybear]

LOL  the steel hub only took me 45 minutes... Then again I used to build race cars. the hard part is loading the lights in the tubes and soldering connectors on all of them   

[Ebuechner]

Sounds like you and me might have a similar background. I owned my own auto repair shop( and I don't mean a shed some place where I tinkered with friends cars) and I have a background with aircraft. I'll be the first to admit I'm always going out of my way to get out my Lincoln MIG welder but the aircraft part of me wants to make it lighter. I just shaved almost 10 pounds off of the star for my mega tree so that it will be easier to put up the 25 foot pole.

[babybear]

And how we ended up here... Lol.

[Ebuechner]

I don't know about you but I think I was attracted to the Blinky lights like a moth to a light bulb. ( just picture a guy fluttering around bumping into a mega tree)