How to Make Motorized Turntable From Lazy Susan

This time I’ll show you how I made a motorized turntable also known as Lazy Susan.

How I did it - you can check by looking DIY video or you can follow up instructions bellow. For this project you will need:

Materials:

Lazy susan

Hot glue

Piece of rubber hose

Wood screws

Wood glue

Power wire with ON/OFF switch

Pair of wire connectors,

Microwave Turntable Synchronous Motor https://goo.gl/a3LaJ6 or this: https://goo.gl/u2YYdj

4 small wood knobs

A wood dowel

Tools:

Drill and bits

Screw driver

Hot glue gun

Pliers

I bought this Lazy Susan from Ikea for few euros. It have main turntable components - a plate and bearing.
For this build we also need a power wire with ON/OFF switch, pair of wire connectors, a motor, 4 small wood knobs, a wood dowel, a piece of rubber hose and few screws.

First I removed locking nut and took off the bearing. This allow me to remove this bolt. Placed bearing back, marked center and drilled a hole.

Used wood dowel as a shaft and glued in place.
Drilled bigger center hole in bottom piece to ensure enough space for spinning mechanism.

Pre-drilled and screwed four wood knobs. Those will be acting as turntable feets.

I used this microwave synchronous motor which bought online for few euros.
Cut short piece of rubber hose and slide it on a motor shaft. With hot glue glued bottom part and with small wood screws secured motor in place.

Used CA glue to glue wood dowel and rubber hose together.

At local hardware store took this power wire with ON/OFF switch. Clamped two female wire connectors and connected to the motor.

This motorized turntable will be very useful in all my future project when I want to show my finished item.
If you want to have a variable speed function - you have to use a potentiometer inline with the power cable. If the motor gets less current it will turn slower.