Got your spinner fidget yet?
 

What the h$ll
I was at my web cafe (mcDs)
and some guy was spinning his geeze I wanted to break it into after 20 sec. Good thing I didnt he worked there. I was listening to All things considered NPR
they are chartering jets to ship them all over it is huge in the E., the guy that invented it was selling out at $400

Is that a real post? Were you hacked? That makes no sense whatsoever.

Lmfao! Looks like a drunk voice to text... A wreck on a wreck...

Maybe the wi-fi in the bomb shelter isn't working very well? :bigthink:

:ExtremeFunny::LMAO1::ROTF1::ExtremeFunny:


OMG, I'm DYING laughing!!!!

You owe me a keyboard!!!

My kids have them. Drives me nuts.
Are trying to start trouble with the NPR comment?

The dumbing down of America.... Wussification of the Alpha Male... My grandkids have been told they are not allowed to have that dumb shiet....!!!!!!

Nephews have them. My kids are younger and no exposed to fad crap yet. Someone is making a killing on the whole fad of the moment thing.



https://www.etsy.com/market/fidget

What do you mean? We fidget with our "spinners" all the time and it hasn't affected us girlfriend!!

Sounds like some act of perversion.

I was not promoting the spinners
People using them in public are super annoying ,is/was my point ( some make a loud rachet noise ) ,and it is just starting ,even if you live in podunk ill. & get news from the podunk daily ...ha ha it will come to you . you should research before you post jshadetree
It really really is a thing ...happening in the world

I don't have one, but there's plenty of them in school.:biggrin2:

jshadetree..... :ExtremeFunny::LMAO1::ROTF1:


"Podunk", ill is a great place to live.

At least here I got an education and can type in complete sentences, and use capital letters where they belong.

I need a drink.:beerchug:

I was going to suggest we take up a collection to buy you one of these things so you have something to occupy your time.:biggrin2:

I hear they have an excellent class on engine rpm guessing as well.:biggrin2:

:biggrin2::biggrin2:

I'm self taught in that particular area of expertise. :ThumbsUp:

J-Mech has the latest high tech ears to decipher any sound.

I'm usually on Android ...it sucx to capitalize ,punctuate 100% of the time .

I take back the Podunk comment , often wish I was rural . It may have offended quite a few here.

I'm using Android now. Don't be lazy.

Can we get Sam one in Cadet yellow?:bigthink:

I still have no idea what the he$$ you guys are talking about. :bash2::bs::bs:

You're lucky! Ignorance can be bliss!

Why don't you try looking it up? I had no idea what they were either but after a 10 second Google search I'm now fully aware of what they are.

There's 3 minutes of my life I'll never get back.....:bash2:

Cub Cadet 123

Punctuation. Saving lives for years...

Let's eat grandma!

Let's eat, grandma!

Long story short its a gizmo you hold between two fingers and spin it real fast--made of plastic with some pretty decent bearings. It is a tool developed to help children with ADHD. Turns out kids without that disorder enjoy playing with them, so it has ballooned into a toy instead of a medical "tool". The craze has gotten so widespread that many schools are banning them due to the distraction.

I think my whole family would like one. Every year when we get the corn planter out, Dad and my son are amazed at how long the press wheels coast. I swear a couple of them will coast for 5 minutes. But what do you expect, its an IH machine.:biggrin2:

I teach middle schoolers, and they are at craze level now, to the point where some of my more mechanically talented students are modifying them to spin longer. I myself like them because I used to reach at a school for autism and they would be very useful there; however, I do see the side of banning them because standing in front of a room filled with them is like being in a snake pit with all the hissing bearings. Being a WW1 aviation nut, I like to use them to explain how gyroscopic forces affected WW1 pilots with rotary-engined planes. Anyone interested in a really cool engine, search YouTube for "Gnome rotary" or "le Rhone rotary" to see what I mean. I'm not talking Wankels here, these things the entire engine spins around a stationary crankshaft. To cut a rambly post back to the point, airplanes with these engines would naturally dive somewhat when turning right and climb when turning left, so as a pilot you had to be ready for that. These spinners are a cool hands-on way to demonstrate that tendency without so many words.

We must be really bored...... I can't believe this thread has 29, or....30 posts.

Ohhhhhh,,,,,,, come on folks, it's just the 2017 version of a yoyo. I think STILL have one of those,,,,lets see,,,,,,,,YEP! Right there next to the pet rock.

When I was a kid, they didn't ban things. The teacher just collected whatever "toy" you were playing with and gave it back to you at the end of the day. No need for a ban. Stand at the door to the classroom with a little basket. "Place your spinner thingamajig in here, please. You can have them back at recess, or when you go home. Thank you!"

Such simple solutions really.... no one has any "gall" anymore.

mmmm grandma taste good.
mmmm grandma, taste good.

The teachers used to take our balls away, they were called "click clacks"
In 1969, when I was in 7th grade for the 3rd time, the teacher of English class, Brasley Bullock, who was of Jamaican decent, used to take the unused gum away from you if you were caught chewing, then give it back at the end of the semester and make those poor suckers who got caught chew it in front of class, or get detention for a week.
Those were the days.

And you, and I and countless other all survived, and are better off for it. (Lew is MUCH older than me. Just want to point that out. :biggrin2:)

You can't do that now.... because, my goodness.... you might hurt their little feelings! Or worse yet, embarrass them in front of everyone!! :Shame:

If they would just bring :Spank: back. Starting at home.....

The only thing I remember being banned was cinnamon toothpicks. These were homemade and HOT as HECK! Come to think of it, we weren't allowed to bring toys, toothpicks, or anything of the sort to school. Heck we didn't even try. FWIW, the schools I went to were fairly large--2,000 kids in 3 grades at high school. There were just way too many of us to tolerate such fads.

Trying to get this Cadet related, I first learned of these spinners from a "kid" at work. He takes machine shop classes at night. They printed off some rather crude versions of these in class on a 3D printer. Just wondering are there any Cadet items that used to be molded that could be 3D printed for restorations? I haven't looked but aren't the IH emblems for the 82 series NLA? Maybe some enterprising sole would want to undertake such a venture.

I think the 82 hood ornament Extreme makes is 3d printed.

When I worked in a office in 01-02 ,as a warrantee clerk
I brought in a cleaned axle bearing as a paper weight and I would spin it in the afternoon quite a bit , so I was a pioneer of sorts .

until one day when it had been super glued , This is why the spinners are likely not a fad.

Did look it up, and still don't know what the heck it's used for.
X2!

Being rural has its benefits lol I just say some lady on Facebook getting roasted for selling them for 20$ or so dollars each. She dropped the bomb on herself by saying she bought them for $4.99 last night. I'm fairly young but I thought that these little spinning things were called tops? At least I had one when I was younger