Using a turret? Whatre your ideas on elevator design?

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by ttldomination

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?

If you can deal with the turret having a limited range of motion, your "sprocket" can be a wooden disk with chain bolted to the outer edge and driven by a smaller sprocket. You can either have the chain make a typical loop around the driving sprocket, or just have the chain in a circle around the disk and drive it as if it were a gear.