Exactly the problem I encountered with a belt driven turret. I so I
went to gear driven and have a fine toothed ring gear on the turret
and drive sprocket on the motor. There is just enough 'slop' in the
lazy susan to allow the teeth to disengage. I ended up having to put a
tensioner gear with a fairly heavy spring, opposite of the motor to
hold the lazy susan in place. Not the best solution but a solution
none the less. I have been toying with the idea of a bearing mount
(genuflecting towards The Master :-) ) as the lazy susay wobbles when
the tank is moving.

-Fred "Fuzzy Engineer" Thomson

On Jun 25, 7:37 am, Frank Pittelli <[email protected]> wrote:
> Modena wrote:
> > yes, and I also tried slacking it off, which also didn't help. Another
> > (hopefully higher quality) susan is on the way
>
> I have four lazy susans sitting in the shop doing nothing ... why,
> because they don't work well for much of anything in our hobby.  Do
> yourself a big favor and replace it with an actual "bearing".
>
>         Frank P.
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