Your should be able to get a local fabricator to construct a ratating turntable for 4 or 5K. You need a rolled channel ring to the diameter required, to fit toe down and supported on three wheels located to run between the flanges. One of the wheels is mounted on the output shaft of a geared motor. For example, the geared motor output shaft with 150 diameter wheels running in a ring about 1500mm diameter would need to rotate at 20 rpm to give 2 rpm of the turntable. A 0.55 kW drive unit would be more than adequate, so I suggest a drive speed of 60 rpm with an inverter to give a useful range of turntable speeds. Contact lyn@ajax.co.uk if you need a sketch for a small fee. ■

If you are going to have this custom made, my suggestion would be to specify what speed(s) you want to see for rotation.

Is this to display large pictures you've taken? If so I cannot imagine much of a weight requirement, but this still sounds like a special request to me.

-- Joe --

used ez rewinder & sheeter jorestech strapping machine ■

I'd look at using one of these simple turntables and using a simple rubber wheel friction drive.

http://www.roballo.co.uk/download/info/turntables.pdf ■

a small slew drive should work out well

if you cant get one let me know ■