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Re: Lazy Susan Power
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Originally Posted by EricH View Post
I've seen this in the 2006 Behind the Design book:

Take a small-ish motor, put a reasonably grippy wheel on it (or, better, on the gearbox), and plant said grippy wheel firmly on the part of the lazy susan you want to rotate.
Yep, that was us!

The top disc had a larger diameter than the bottom disc to leave room for the wheel to drive it. If your lazy susan has 2 of the same size discs, just add something to the top one to make it a larger diameter.

We custom built ours.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/33185

Ignore the motor up top as that was a shooter motor, and look at the one attached to the wheel on the lower left-ish side of the picture.
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