First Build - Featherweight Bar Spinner

[Ocracoke]

I can see where you are coming from. Because of the lower weight classes and the smaller overall size, I sometimes get the impression that folks don't take account how dangerous these things can be. Doesn't matter about the weight class, if it goes wrong, it goes wrong quickly and the amount of energy in one of these things... well you get the picture.

I've had catastrophic failures happen to me like this, even with a Antweight. It was still a case of me putting it in a sealed container rather than test in the open because like heck I was OK with having a ~5g bar flying at my eye if it got loose.

Spinners are dangerous and they are dangerous for a reason. There is really nowhere safe to run them apart from an appropriate arena and they have to be built properly, hence the recommendation to build something simpler in order to gain engineering experience first before taking the next leap.