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So the 4 holes you spoke about? That you would drill through the front to back? Is that just for security of holding it together?

Why does it orbital spin? Is necessary??

It's so good.wow

I make these wheels and sell them. Some people are crazy about them, others are nothing but haters. My gliders love them, thank you for sharing.

I'm dumb:(

Can this work for smaller travel size wheels. Kinda like the baby raptor that is no longer in production right now

To bad he didn't make scripted and explain what his doing, like a sound over.

Do you have one to sell?

Awesome

Great tutorial!! I just wanted to add: - If you want to find a bucket lid without the tear tab (in your written tutorial you mentioned some people were saying it was a hazard although, I do agree it’s usually small enough where it shouldn’t catch a foot or toe in it) US Plastic Corp sells bucket lids without the tear tab: www.usplastic.com/ You have to get the STANDARD bucket lid. They specify which ones have the tear tab and which ones don’t. I believe these are the same bucket lids used in the Raptor wheels. But you’ll be limited with colors, they only have red, black, white, yellow, or green. I’m still trying to find a pink bucket lid without the tear tabs on it 🤓 The backing piece: you mentioned having trouble finding a strong enough backing piece that won’t wear or crack over time. I bought a piece of 12x12 HDPE plastic sheeting (3/4 inch thick) and used a hole hog to cut it into circle. I believe this is the same backing used on the Raptor wheels as well. I tried to find pre cut HDPE plastic discs.. but couldn’t find the right thickness. This is the same plastic they use for plastic cutting boards. It’s light but very strong. You could cut it yourself, or have it cut by which ever vendor you buy it from. I made our wheels going by the same design of the Raptor wheels, but I needed a custom sized small one for our travel cage so we decided to make it ourselves. We used a thicker backing piece because I wanted to hide the center (axle) screw. So we attached the plastic backing with finishing posts and used a threaded nut screw on the back to screw in the hex bolt that’s housed in the pvc piece with the bearings. But great tutorial! Really helpful!

I made a wheel similar to this, in the process I noticed one small flaw. The way you get those bearings in. The pvc inner dimension is a bit too tight. So the bearing isn’t actually spinning smoothly, hence using the plumbers tape to make it less squeaky. The squeak comes from the bolt spinning in the bearing. You can easily fix that by A) using your rotary tool with a cylinder sander to take some material out of the T before inserting the bearings, or B) use a heat gun to get the pvc to about 200 degrees F after snugging the bearings in. I did B and my wheel is silent and fast without plumber tape. Plus you can add a nut on the wheel side of the bearings and snug up the T side nut a bit more for less wobble. Our boys love it. Oh we also added in a second layer of plastic with intermittent removable fine sand paper for claw trimming🐿

I have that blender. It’s amazing right?!

Quick video (somewhat) showing how I "meal prep" for my gliders. I have three cages. All get fed different amounts, according to their needs. I typically prepare enough food for one to two weeks. But I make enough staple for a couple months and freeze what's leftover until I have to prepare more food. The staple I feed is my own recipe which I have been feeding for years and will not share. You can check out staple recipes here: www.sugarglider.info/staple-diets (VGV would be the closest recipe to mine) I give a large variety of vegetables and a small amount of one, maybe two, types of fruit per day. The vegetables I used this time were: Butternut squash Peas Carrots Green beans Zucchini Collard greens Sugar snap peas Yellow squash Sweet potatoes Eggplant Cucumbers Mixed bell peppers Fruit: Raspberries I typically don't give as much butternut squash. It's usually about half butternut squash and half turnips but I hadn't chopped and boiled the fresh turnips when I made the video.

Gorgeous suggies. I love your cage and setup!!!!!!they all seem extremely happy.

have you been able to come up with a way to add the grit paper/cloth to help with their nails by chance ?

Good one. I can't find any wheel that big for my sugar glider. So i need to make one my self i guess

Where do you purchase your gutter guard or what brand is it? I ordered some but it is very flimsy and will not work. The hardware cloth I found is too big.

aww I was hoping to see a clip of your gliders playing on it! Great vid tho :)

do you use pvc glue?

This is amaze

what size is the tubing?? 10' of what size??

I don't have a sugar glider, but I think that they're adorable😃, maybe one day... I do have Syrian Hamsters, And a gerbil, this tutorial is amazing... very advanced, but surprisingly easy to understand! I would definitely think about using an off center wheel for my gerbil, because she has a hop, but the hams, don't...I would just center the wheel for the hams...thanks for sharing your design!🐹