silvreclips
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- Jul 19, 2005
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Greenville,
South_Carolina
I'm sure most of you guys have similar problems, the wife tasks you with projects that she wants done. This one was fun so thought I would share.
My wife is big into Christmas, and every year she loves decorating the tree. The problem is we have to many ornaments to display on our tree, we push it into a corner so we only get about half of the tree to look at.
But if the tree rotates around we can utilize the entire tree. After some Google searches I found 1 live tree stand that rotates. But since I like to do things the hard way, I designed my own.
It really wasn't all that complicated, a large bearing to take the load, a slip ring for the lights, and then just have to drive it with a small motor. I 3d printed all of the gears from abs. Everything has been made, I just need to sand the plates and put it together. Should be able to test it this weekend. The gearmotor turns at 5rpm, and I geared it down another 7:1, so I should be around 0.7 rpm. I may add a speed controller to slow it down even more, not really sure yet.
My wife is big into Christmas, and every year she loves decorating the tree. The problem is we have to many ornaments to display on our tree, we push it into a corner so we only get about half of the tree to look at.
But if the tree rotates around we can utilize the entire tree. After some Google searches I found 1 live tree stand that rotates. But since I like to do things the hard way, I designed my own.
It really wasn't all that complicated, a large bearing to take the load, a slip ring for the lights, and then just have to drive it with a small motor. I 3d printed all of the gears from abs. Everything has been made, I just need to sand the plates and put it together. Should be able to test it this weekend. The gearmotor turns at 5rpm, and I geared it down another 7:1, so I should be around 0.7 rpm. I may add a speed controller to slow it down even more, not really sure yet.
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