I needed to make a turntable to apply a two part resin finish.
It took quite awhile to figure everything out, what turns slow enough, how to make a vertical turntable instead of a horizontal turntable. Why ? anything sitting on a horizontal turntable will allow gravity to draw the thick resin finish downward and just create a puddle of finish on the bottom before the resin sets up.
A vertical turntable ( at the correct speed) will actually pick the drips and runs before they drop off, because of the rotation and continue to have the finish build up layers as it continues to rotate and have the runs and sags re-apply themselves to the finish coat. A slower drying resin works the best as over time rotating it does self level out the surface, and abolishes the sags and runs. A very fun challenge
Well I completed my challenge. A very slow, I revolution per minute horizontal turn table. Did you know that Barbeque rotisserie motors come in different speeds? I found out and liked the one revolution per minute for what I was doing. The motor started heating up when running for hours on end so I had to add a fan to cool the motor and that worked like a dream 24 hours non stop and motor still cool. I used a slow drying resin ( 4 hours) and applied a very heavy coat as it was turning. You could see the extra rolling around to the bottom but before it dripped off it was being picked back up in the rotation. Very please with the way it worked out. Just put a cardboard box over to keep the dust off and went to bed. In the morning it was still turning and motor was still cool. the thick coat had just kept rolling around and around and actually self leveled out with all the rotations. Hard as a rock in the morning, Mission accomplished. No idea how to post a video of it here…