I got a T300 for $100 from some guy on OfferUp. I’ve only been kinda-scammed once on OfferUp, when a young adidas-besandaled man sold me an AppleTV 4k in a dark McDonalds parking lot and it shockingly turned out to be a AppleTV 4, scandalous. Anyways, I got the wheel home and then realized it either doesn’t, or just didn’t, come with a table-clamp (you can buy one from the Thrustmaster website for like $15). So I sat around for a while, staring into the middle distance, thinking of ways to not have to either drill holes in my desk to hard mount it with bolts or buy some kind of huge ‘play’ ‘seat’. Ransacked my sparse Ikea parts bin, matching bolts, sure, acceptable mounting solution: no dice. “What if I just set it on the desk?” worked better than expected but not good enough.
And then, I spotted it. The handmade pants-stretcher I purchased years ago to enlarge my small collection of unsanforized dungarees as age and comfort swelled my frame into the near-130lb range. My suspicions were confirmed when, after disassembling, the bolt threads matched up almost perfectly and I was able to fashion a makeshift clamp.
After fine tuning various settings, I am enjoying the additional power, smoothness, but most of all the noticeably quicker rotation - really changes the drift/powerslide game there, compared to the comparatively slugish cog-drive wheels.