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Re: Using a turret? Whatre your ideas on elevator design?

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Originally Posted by ttldomination View Post
Moving onto another part of the turret, any ideas on how to power/motorize the lazy susans? All I've heard is make your own custom large sprocket. Seeing as how that really isn't an option for my team, any team have any household solutions for this?

- Sunny G.
A large pulley such as used on a swamp cooler (it's a southwest thing), and a V belt is how we did it in 2009. Worked great. We used ball bearings that fit in the pulley over the belt to support the turret.

here's a partial view of how it was built. I think it was still a prototype at this stage, but the same turret drive/support parts were used on the final version.