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[nightshade]

Do any of you have a shed on a turntable,I have looked at vehicle turntables
but at £6000 and up these are non starters are there plans available to build your own ?

[wildlifesnapper]

Hi there,

google "garden observatory plans" and there are a few interesting ones on there where people have built there own sliding roof sheds/domes.

neil

[caladina]

how about mounting the shed base on 6 or 8 shopping trolly wheels or simalar,
have a motor driven wheel to turn the shed, obviously it will need a track or guide to keep it in a circle

also as you probably know will need a input for the motor to keep it in time with the earths motion if doing long exp pics

maybe you can get just the motor drive from a proper obs'

have you looked at components for proper motorised obs' ?

mind you if you not worried about keeping the motion of the shed its self in time with the earth then you should be able to turn it with and 240 motor or even manully

shopping trolly wheels are fantasticly usefull, i use them for moving smashed cars, even with the engines still in

personally i would leave the shed base fixed and have the seating position along with the scope and roof / dome that rotates,
if you get an iron works to make the large circular track for the roof / dome to rotate on the rest you might be able to do yourself

[nightshade]

I must admit the reason I posted here was that you were the most likley group to have the Info.
I actually have always wanted a rotating hide/summerhouse to follow the sun and wildlife as it moves around my garden and of course do the occasional stargazing
Thank you all for your help

[caladina]

so nightshade, any idea which type of design you are thinking would work best for you yet?

[Meta menardi]

Originally Posted by nightshade

I must admit the reason I posted here was that you were the most likley group to have the Info.
I actually have always wanted a rotating hide/summerhouse to follow the sun and wildlife as it moves around my garden and of course do the occasional stargazing
Thank you all for your help

The guy next door but 2 has a lovely rotating summer-house, propbably from about 1920 or so. Never been used in the last 20 years. Makes yer cry.

[caladina]

hmmm, just had a thought, what about old funfair / playground equipment, i did see a specific scrap / salvage yard a few years back for that type of stuff, no idea where but they would have large turn table bases and tracks

[badgerwatcher]

Wy not have a circular or octagonal shed with glass walls from waist height upwards, and blinds on each section. Then you can move which windows you are using.

[Wild-Woman]

What about the creatures that live under a shed? eg hedgehog, fox? Eek!

[nightshade]

Originally Posted by caladina

hmmm, just had a thought, what about old funfair / playground equipment, i did see a specific scrap / salvage yard a few years back for that type of stuff, no idea where but they would have large turn table bases and tracks

Caladina you jogged my mind with that suggestion,I have seen something similar near here, thanks