Spray Booth Turn Table

[Darrin Davis]

I've seen a turn table for spray booths in the past but I am currently having trouble finding them searching on google. I'm wanting to make one out of 5' x 5' baltic birch so that I can put large projects in my spray booth and be able to turn them during spraying.

Can someone point me to some pics somewhere on the internet so that I can get some ideas before building?

Thanks

[Rob Diz]

I would suggest that you get the largest lazy susan bearings you can find (I found a 10 inch bearing at Lee Valley), and attach whatever top you want to it, and whateve base you want to use. Some will suggest that you attach a slight lip (strip of ply) to the edge of your top to "catch" any spray that might be headed toward your lazy susan bearings.

I don't have any pictures of mine, but it is nothing to look at. I think mine ended up being something like 2 x 3 feet. If I have something with wider legs to spray, i will put some scrap ply/OSB/MDF on top of my existing lazy susan. If I felt it was a bit unstable, it would be easy enough to screw it down.

Oh, the whole thing sits on top of some home made saw horses. I use some F clamps to give the thing some rigidity.

It ain't pretty, but I have been able to spray my kitchen cabinets pieces, as well as a few smaller tables easily.

[Frank Drew]

I used to use a friend's spray booth and always thought a revolving platform would be a terrific addition.

As Rob says, get the biggest lazy susan mechanism you can find; if your platform is going to be big it might help prevent sagging to have a smaller piece of ply on top of the bearings, say something halfway between the bearing diameter and the size of your platform.

[Jim Becker]

As mentioned, a large, "lazy Susan" bearing set will get you started. If you need bigger, use that for the middle, and use some fully swiveling casters farther out to the edge after raising the middle section up to accommodate them. Obviously this would require two layers and add a bit of weight, but it depends upon what kind of weight you need to support during your finishing process. You'll also want some form of adjustable height support under the revolving platform so you can accommodate different size projects.

[Harley Reasons]

I saw a shop tip not long ago in one of the WW mags. A guy had salvaged the base from an old office chair with the casters and pneumatic cylinder still in good shape. He mounted a piece of plywood to the top of it and had a mobile turn table that had a height adjustment to it.
This may not fit your application, but it's still a humdinger of an idea.

[Mike Gabbay]

I use a large lazy susan for my booth. I have 2 or 3 so I can spray mulitple items at once. If you want to get really large (5') I'd probably go with casters and put it on the floor.

[Lloyd McKinlay]

Check places that sell new and used store fixtures. Lots of displays have a rotating base and can be modified. Quitting business sales are another possibility, small display fixtures are practically given away.

[Chris Padilla]

UHMW strips strategically placed between two sheets of plywood of your chosen size with a single center fastening point will do the trick.

Even better, invert a piece of Melamine with the smooth side toward the the UHMW and it will glide along nicely. MDF works, too.

[Steve Flavin001]

1. Lazy susan is generally a standard hardware item, - Ace or otherwise; woodworking stores will be a premium expense, and maybe even not needed at all (see 3 below).

2. One mention is made of using an old chair air riser - having visited commercial furniture manuf., I saw their professional tables were on a true pneumatic air assembly, probably prohibitive for a home shop. But, a method to adjust the height up and down is generally pretty essential for lighting, reflection, and full vision of the workpiece.

3, Forgo the lazy susan part completely and use bolt with bushing spacer in between center of two circles cut out of sheet of plywood (usually 1/2" will suffice) and small castors or even ball bearing mounts between outer edges of the circle (disks) of plywood.

[JayStPeter]

I think it was Dredsner that showed the one he uses. He connects a piece of pipe to a set of legs, then a slightly thinner piece of pipe to a round top. Slide the top pipe inside the lower one and you have lazy susan that you can take apart and store flat. A couple different lengths of pipe and it's also height adjustable. I plan on building one every time I spray, but haven't yet :rolleyes:.

[Josh Youngman]

You can make your own jumbo size lazy suzan using ball transfers.

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[Jim Becker]

Good idea, Josh. A routed circular channel in the bottom piece can serve as the "track" and a bolt with a nylon insert nut as the pivot point will keep things from falling apart. Any size you need is possible!

[Chris Padilla]

Lottsa ways to skin this cat! :) One could use scrap hardwood in place of the UHMW for my idea.

[Eric Wong]

I think it was Dredsner that showed the one he uses. He connects a piece of pipe to a set of legs, then a slightly thinner piece of pipe to a round top. Slide the top pipe inside the lower one and you have lazy susan that you can take apart and store flat. A couple different lengths of pipe and it's also height adjustable. I plan on building one every time I spray, but haven't yet :rolleyes:.

The easiest way is definitely Dresdner's idea... I used a pipe floor flange and 24" section of 1.5" pipe, which fits nicely inside a 2" pipe and another floor flange. Each flange is connected to a 36" piece of ply. When you slide them together, TA DA! Big Lazy Susan turntable.

And when you're done, you can unscrew the pipes from the flanges and store it real easy.

[Bob Aquino]

I have one I made out of an old round table top. Bought a lazy susan bearing from Rockler a while back, made a quickie base out of some plywood strips, works fine, has umpteen coats of paint on it by now, makes spraying things like chairs much easier, and I store it in the attic when I don't need it. You could make the top out of anything, but round is probably the best shape for pushing it so it moves. Half the time I nudge it with my foot while I am holding the gun.

[Chris Padilla]

You could make the top out of anything, but round is probably the best shape for pushing it so it moves.

I prefer a dodecagon myself.... ;)

[Andy Pratt]

This is a great idea, I would have kicked myself if I didn't read about this until after building a normal table into my future spray booth. I learn something useful nearly every time I come on the forum. I've got an old office chair that wants to go in the trash and this might be a perfect use for the bottom portion.

[Wayne Cannon]

Dresdner's solution using a column of nested galvanized pipe sections and floor flanges is my favorite -- simple, cheap, reliable, smooth rotation.

Has anyone using a lazy-susan had trouble with bearings getting gummed up after a while? That would be my concern.

[George Sanders]

I worked in a transformer factory spraying transformers and I suggested to a maintenance man that a turntable would speed things up. About an hour later he brought me a stool seat with a large bearing attached to the bottom with a steel collar around it. Worked like a charm.