Not So Lazy Susan….

[GlenG]

I ’ve been looking for a turn table to use when painting projects, but I could never find one that was large or heavy enough, so i decided to build one. To top is 15”x15”x1/4” aluminum and the base is 14”x14”x3/16” steel with a 12” turn table bearing rated for 1000lb. The longest part was drilling and tapping the 120+ 1/4”-20 holes, but using a template for punching and then a drill/tap in my impact driver it actually wasn’t that bad.

Template for centre punching:




Bottom with bearing:




Finished:



And I built an arm to hold a rifle stock that needs clear coat:



I’m quite happy with the final product.

 

[DPittman]

Wow that's fancy, nice work. Puts my dangling wire from the ceiling to hang things to paint to shame.

 

[GlenG]

Wow that's fancy, nice work. Puts my dangling wire from the ceiling to hang things to paint to shame.

HaHa for sure. But I have one of those collapsible paint ‘booths’ to keep the garage clean, and it can’t handle the hanging.

 

[Dan Dubeau]

Looks nice and heavy duty, I'm sure you'll get lots of great use from it.

Could also double as a welding turntable too

 

[whydontu]

looks great!