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My Portable Gamer Wheel Table

The Logitech Driving Force wheel is an awesome gamer wheel, especially when you get it out of the package and realize its a USB based wheel and it works on the PC as well as the PS3! The box advertises PS3 ability only and doesn't even mention the PC; go figure.

Anyways, I want to have a mounting system that I could easily move from my computer room, for PC usage, to my TV room for PS3 usage. It had to provide some structure so that the footpads and wheel would be combined unit, but not be something that I could not slide up to the chair with.

After a bit of consideration, I pieced together a design and then built this.

This design is foldable ... ala ... !

Construction Design

The table top and foot rest are built from standard melamine, half inch, white coated. The legs are oak; they need to hardwood so they are stiff and will hold the screw on the bottom without loosing.

I wanted the table to pivot so it would be able to suit my position depending on chair and location so I attached a pair of boards on the bottom of each side of the table, screwed and glued them. Before attaching them, however, on the outside board I put one of those type of nuts that your hammer into wood so you can screen a bolt into it. 

I used a finger screen as the bolt, about quarter inch size, to lock the leg into place. The finger screw goes through a hole in top of leg and drives into the nut in the outside board.

Here you can see both legs and bottom of table top ...

The base is pretty straight forward. Again I used melamine and cut strips to create low walls. I angled edges leading to the front to create a bit of design.

The legs are mounted to the base pretty easily with just a single wooden screen on each side. I used long screws; you need to drill the hole through the oak leg, not drive the screw through it. 

You need to position the hole near the corner of the leg so when the table/leg slants forward, you do not want the bottom corner of the leg protruding below the bottom of the foot rest board.

Done!

Some action shots ...

When not in use, I can coil the cord around the foot pegs and stand the unit up in the corner. I have the screws in the leg bases fairly snug so there is enough pressure that it stands on its own, but I still lean it into the corner.

Cheers!

Eric