In Part I, we left off with the tray structure completed if not yet finished. In Part II – also the last part, no matter how long – we’ll build the base and apply the finish.
First, why do we even need a base? Well for the spinning part of the build, I bought a metal turntable. In addition to not being terribly attractive, it’s relatively low profile and I’d prefer to have the tray a bit elevated. Secondly, it’s metal and has the potential to scratch the surface it sits on. Third, I’d prefer a wider support base so the tray is more stable even under asymmetric loading. And fourth, the frictional connection to the countertop might be less than for wood and/or more difficult to add a no-slip pad to the bottom. So it was off to the design software to write up a plan.
The basic design was to build a wood base to mount the turntable on and, since that would very likely be 3/4 inch plywood, some ‘walls’ to cover the plywood edges. The size of the base was set so that the full range of circular motion of the turntable would stay within the foot print of the plywood base.
With those dimensions set, I cut out a square piece of plywood on the table saw from some scrap pieces left over from my kitchen cabinet construction. Now we want the turntable to be ‘perfectly’ centered on the wooden base, so the next step is figuring out the placement on the turntable. To locate the center of my new wooden base, I simply drew diagonal lines connecting the corners – for a square (or any rectangle really) the intersections of those lines locates the exact center. For reasons that will become apparent, I also laid out lines that bisect each edge passing through the newly located center point. Great! But that doesn’t tell us where the center of the metal turntable is which is what we need to align with wood base. However, since both the turntable and the wooden base are squares and the turntable has attachment points equidistant from its center on each corner, if I center those holes on each diagonal simultaneously, the centers of both the base and the turntable will align with each other. Of course, in addition to mounting the turntable to the plywood base, it will eventually need to be attached to tray itself. That’s where the lines bisecting the base edges come into play. If I align the turntable to center up on the plywood base and then rotate the part of the turntable that will mount to the base by 45 degrees, where the mounting holes on that side of the turntable line up with the vertical and horizontal lines define the location on the plywood base that I can drill through to have access to those mounting holes once everything is ready for assembly. It will become clear later at final assembly! So now I have completed the layout for connections on the base. [It was at this point I got fed up trying to make word press put images where I wanted them so you just get thoughtless image inserts from here on out – and pretty low resolution when embedded, so click on the image for higher res if you want.]
The next step is to build a ‘box’ for the turntable assembly to sit in. Was going to simply use some maple door faces I had built for the kitchen cabinets. Due to a clerical error, they were not the correct size to fit the double wide cabinet bases in an aesthetically pleasing fashion, so they were in the scrap pile. But after taking them out and preparing to cut them up, I realized that they fit almost perfectly on my crappy garage cabinets (test builds for the kitchen cabinets), so back into the scrap pile until I get around to attaching them and go dig out some other spare red oak.
Since I’m using 1/2 lap joints for the base, I need one set of sides to be equal to the width of the base+2 side widths and the other to be the width of the base+1 side width (Figure 3, bottom right). That’s easy to set up on the table saw without measuring anything once you’ve cut long pieces cut out at the right height for the base – see Figure 3, bottom center. One could do the 1/2 lap joint cuts with the router, but I didn’t want to set up the table (down side of not having a dedicated shop…) and the cuts were small enough and few enough that they could be done on the table saw without even having to swap in a dado blade stack. I set the blade height to be 1/2 of the width of the side pieces for the 1/2 lap joint. I only did a rough measurement for the initial setup and then used the cutoff scrap pieces to finalize the blade depth and depth into the side for the cut.
All the parts are basically finished now – modulo some sanding which I won’t bore you with.
Now we need to attach everything on the base and prepare for attaching to the tray. The layout is shown in Figure 4, top right and bottom left. Figure 5 shows the actual attachment of the turntable to the base. The metal piece of the turntable not attached will be what attached to the wooden tray eventually. Of course, the problem is that, once you have the turntable attached to the base, you can’t access the holes to attach it tray and vice-versa if you do it in the opposite order. The solution to this dilemma lies in the mysterious off diagonal lines and marks we make earlier and is illustrated in Figure 6. At the locations we found earlier, drill large diameter holes through the plywood base, large enough to accommodate a screwdriver (Left). On the right of the figure is the view from the back (frankly, my preferred view in general…) showing how the base can be rotated such that the small holes on the top of the turntable that are used to attach to the tray can now be accessed via the large hole ‘pass-through’ for assembly.
Now what remains is to center the base on the actual tray. I tried a few methods finding intersecting diameters but that was very dependent on accurate measurements and didn’t yield a good, unique center. Fortunately, I still had the center mark from routing out the tray on the other side and I could locate that very accurately with respect to edges of the individual planks that went into building the tray (see Part 1). So I could draw a very accurate vertical line on the back upon which the center had to live. Then one can mark the point on that line equidistant from edges along that line and it gives you the center point. I put a nail into the bottom of the tray and drilled out a very small hole on the center of the plywood base mount That allows us to define precise mounting points on the bottom of the tray (Figure 7). When attaching, make sure you use short enough screws not to come out the other side, the other side being, in this case, the top of the tray that everyone sees!
Prior to final assembly, I wanted some offsets on the sides of the finished/visible base that the plywood base assembly could rest on to lift the spin-y bit attached to the bottom of the tray by 1/8 of an inch or so to assure that the tray would not contact the finished/decorative base when spinning. This was the ‘design flaw’ mentioned earlier; I made everything so that the sides were the same height as the height of plywood base plus the metal turntable. That would allow the bottom of the tray to scrape the top of the sides as the tray spins. So it requires a bit of ‘fix’ at this stage. Now it’s time to make the final attachments and assembly – Figure 8.
The real last step is to apply a finish. Though this is not something that will be in direct contact with food, I wanted to avoid stains and poly, so at an earlier step, I tested out a Tung oil finish on the sides of the base and the bottom of the tray. I like the look, so went with that for the tray proper – Figure 9.
Here’s the final product in it’s natural environment – well not really, just out of the garage while the oil sets/between applications so it doesn’t get covered with sawdust and other crap. As a bonus, the hickory book shelf built from the other wood recovered at the beginning of this saga is visible in the background.
General turned out nice; now whether to go buy nice wood and replicate. Christmas presents! Wait, it’s already early December, that ain’t happening. Exactly how many Lazy Putrid’s can one fit in the home? I’ve been told that even one is sometimes one too many, so we’ll see if another gets built.
I dated a girl named Susan. She was definitely not lazy.
Nice work, PM
Was she a spinner?
She painted pictures sitting down like a Buddha sat.
Kamala who couldn’t sing kept the beat and kept it strong
I don’t see any of my books on those shelves… I am disappointed.
😜
‘Cause he’s reading them, they’ll go on the shelf when he’s finished.
All the fiction is on the mesquite book shelves behind the camera. It’s a rather sparse books shelf as I usually sell fiction books back after reading. Or did. I haven’t read any actual fiction in nigh on a decade. Other than when I accidentally click on a NYT or WSJ link here.
I was expecting a 3D printer story.
Very nice.
I thought it was drilling, not sanding, that was boring.
It’s not broken in until you do some lines off it.
Is that what you said about Winston’s Mom?
She’ll put lines on you for an extra.
“Figure 0”
It’s always good to draw it first. Sometimes you catch a mistake before it happens.
But dis you gove your wood a good old rub?
This site needs a 15 second edit option.
Did you give
No, It’s funnier the way it is.
Very cockney of you.
Glibertarians Pidgin edition.
Another tragic sob story from NPR
Stainnak, who uses they/them pronouns, had actually moved to a new role just before Trump’s return to the White House, and still they were fired. Today, they are still struggling to find full-time work.
Shouldn’t it be “they is”? Or does it have multiple personalities, too?
Poor noble civil servant who only wanted to help people and make this nation a better place. Now it’s out on its ass, and everything is the cartoon villain’s fault.
3 sob stories!!
OMG the grief. The shame.
Do better, Donald.
You pay for your kids (likely one you bought and not actually your kid) dental like I do. Cut a check. Dental insurance must be nice.
Stainnak is now part of a class-action lawsuit alleging that the Trump administration illegally discriminated against potentially thousands of federal employees who worked in DEI roles before they were fired.
Those Stainnak knows personally are all people of color, women, or members of the LGBTQ+ community.
The lawsuit alleges that Trump and others in his administration targeted the employees because of their actual or perceived political beliefs, their advocacy on behalf of members of protected groups, or their race or gender.
Was the work they was doing necessary?
“Doing well that which should not be done at all is the greatest inefficiency.”
Make-work jobs for “diversity” all went to “diverse” people.
I am shocked.
“You were targetted for holding useless counterproductive jobs, nothing else. Now piss off and get a productive skill.”
I should have refreshed before posting.
How are women considered a minority at all when they are roughly 51% of the population in a world of 27 or more genders?
The same way whites are denied our global minority status when it comes to preferential treatment doling out.
“Those Stainnak knows personally are all people of color, women, or members of the LGBTQ+ community.”
Yeah, that’s who works in those useless DEI departments.
Waiting for cuck Republican congressmen and senators to reinstate DEI through “must pass” legislation.
Sorry to jump off topic, but this couldn’t wait.
https://boingboing.net/2023/07/21/unbelievable-tale-of-a-gentlemans-unfortunate-bottle-encounter.html
Trigger Warnings: #BoingBoing, #wangstuckinabottle
Gah
not clicking on that one
Don’t think it’s off topic; it involved wood, right? At least initially presumably.
Well, now I know not to piss into a bottle that has potassium in it, so thanks for that knowledge.
He invented the penis pump.
In attempting to verify my previous Doctor Parkinson quote I found this one:
Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
What a right wing crackpot.
In Local News
Wiz Khalifa is facing a potential 9-month stint in Romanian prison for weed … but he’s hoping to find an alternate solution to a definitive sentence just handed down by that country’s government!
OMG JUST LIKE THAT BASKETBALL PLAYER IN RUSSIA. though unfortunatly i do not think there are any romanian arms dealers in prison you can release
Maybe we need to make Midnight Express mandatory viewing in school.
Should be jailed just for being a dumbass.
My son likes to dabble with the weed. When we’ve traveled overseas and domestically I’ve told him to not even consider bringing anything. Other countries and states aren’t as lax as California and I will not be bailing him out.
Hopefully he doesn’t get a call from his girl, because I don’t think he’ll be there shortly this time.
Private jet down in N Carolina.
Oops
Parkinson, again (from the top rope):
Promotion of the less capable should never be considered as a mark of social progress.
the view from the back (frankly, my preferred view in general…)
Giggity
Giggity indeed.
RAW EGG NATIONALIST
@Babygravy9
This is the funniest video I’ve seen in such a long time. I’ve been laughing for like an hour.
https://x.com/Babygravy9/status/2001434941398081981
There were some women who said beards for men are like makeup for women
They make us look older?
When I shave I look like I’m 12.
I imagine that was no great reveal if you saw a full-body shot.
The decision to go with a “Chi-Mo” was a wrong call.
The pass through holes.
This is where I drop screws in a project like this and can’t get them back out.
Oh and those books.
You’re on a list for sure.
can’t get them back out.
Fortunately, in this case, they just fell out the side. If I had dropped them in at any point, that’s what would have happened I mean.
books
Twas the “Mastering Grilling” that done it.
The big Thai cookbook?
This is where I drop screws in a project like this and can’t get them back out.
That’s what magnetized screwdrivers are for.
Straight down the intake manifold.
Why is it so difficult to slam the door in someone’s face.
My day was interrupted be a door to door electric bill scammer “let me get you money back”. I should not feel caddish for simply closing the door on him, as it is a scam, albeit one I can’t call the cops on him for.
I had someone knock at 4:30 yesterday – the dog barking and growling like she’s going to rend them limb from limb (which is a total lie) helps with the “now’s a bad time”, quite a bit.
I’ve gotten to the point where I don’t even give an excuse. Once I confirm who they are, I just close the door and relock it. They can’t argue, debate, or emotionally manipulate anymore.
Meh. Call the cops anyway. “Sketchy individual casing houses”
I don’t want to deal with the cops
Everyone, in this day and age, should have a door camera of some kind.
Half the crime in the United States would goa away overnight if everyone would not open the door unless they knew exactly who/what was on the other side of it…
The problem is so many of those give people who are not me access to the video.
Any cameras that I don’t have to submit content to the cloud to get them to work?
I am seriously interested in recommendations.
I was just looking at versions that will work with my Synology software, because fuck the cloud.
More options than I expected.
Closed loop, hardwired camera system is only non geek way to do it.
Do you not want your security video stored in the cloud? Or do you want zero cloud integration of any kind, at all? Don’t think you’re gonna find the later.
Again, given I have some base-level software – Synology – it looks like I can skip the cloud altogether:
https://support.reolink.com/hc/en-us/articles/360004124293-How-to-Add-Reolink-Cameras-to-Synology-Surveillance-Station/
A peep-hole works for me.
Closed loop, hardwired camera system is only non geek way to do it.
If I was ever inclined to have a camera on my front door, that’s the way I’d go. No wifi, no cloud, hardwired only to my internal network. Then I think, but why? Seems like a lot of effort for very little value.
I do not want a 3rd party collecting my data and mining it.
Accessible to me via computer or cell phone would be fine.
Kinnith I’m in the same boat.
I’d also like a thermostat that learns and is easy to program that dosent have internet access or a microphone.
My questioning about dash cams the other day.
Why you don’t need to access my phones location or need me to store in the cloud.
A lot of dash cams will automatically alert emergency services when the accellerometer detects a crash. And if your crash instead damages the dash cam, or the other party steals it, the cloud storage keeps the footage in play.
Though it would not need the phone’s location, it should have it’s own – unless it’s piggybacking on the phone for both data and gps.
UCS it was for initial setup only as far as I could tell. I think it was simply data mining.
I took it back yesterday.
I couldn’t figure out how to get it to talk to the phone anyway. And not being able to use it without my phone was not going to work for me.
I had one of those Nest thermostats, and it worked great until it started to ignore my settings to “save energy”. GFY Nest, I set that temp for a reason. Now I have a plain old $40 Honeywell with zero connections to the Internet. I wish it had day and night settings, but for now it’s fine.
For our gym, we have Swann security cameras. It’s recorded to a DVR we have in a secured closet, and holds 50 days of data before it saves over the old data. You have to use their app to look at the cameras, but nothing is stored in the cloud. That system works great.
We have Reolink cameras that connect by RTMP(?) to my local HomeAssistant. I left the cloud part enabled because reasons, but it wouldn’t be hard to completely isolate them on the local network.
I have also installed a Reolink system, and there is no need to enable their cloud access. We use a home network VPN for remote access.
The Reolink gets its own VLAN for the cameras and is just plug and play for more cameras.
Synology either forces you to use their brand of camera, or to pay a per channel fee that quickly becomes more than just buying a Reolink system.
Good point – Synology charges $50(?) for each camera but bundles in two. For my tiny place, that’s fine (I only have one camera now) but, yes, that could get expensive.
I usually say something like “Time is money. Don’t waste your time on someone who is not going to accept your offer. Thank you. Bye.”
I keep meaning to get one of those handsome, brass “No soliciting” plates.
I _do_ wonder how many people would even understand what that means.
None. Not because of misunderstanding. Its lack of property rights. No one has an issue walking up to a house and cold call.
Very few.
I e only had the jehovas and the neighbor kid selling some school coupon packet to stores we don’t go to at my place in the 13 years I’ve lived here.
Like the neighbor kid, he’s good people.
The jehova worker bees never came back even though we invited them to dinner.
I have a hard time coming up with a passive agressive way of calling heretics heretics and asking them to repent.
Luckily they’ve never pestered me.
I had a friend who told someone that he needed to call the pope and get his opinion. He closed the door and never went back.
I’m not sure Jimbo’s opinion would help, I’ve already revoked his church’s official status…
UCS:
When I was a kid, my mom got rid of the JWs by answering their question to discuss religion with, “As long as we can discuss mine.”
We live in a rural development. No one gets here without driving a car. When someone unexpected comes to the door it’s one of the neighbors.
In 20 years, we have had a handful of political types and religious types show up at the door. But I say I am not interested and close the door.
That’s how my neighborhood is. It’s 20 min to town.
I should build a coffee shop and a quickie mart as the neighborhood has almost tripled in size since we moved in.
It’s not, although I don’t slam it.
I would always just say “No thank you” and close the door.
First time my son saw me do that, he was flabbergasted.
Luckily where I live now, I’ve had only had one and that was a church lady inviting us to her church.
For her, I took the pamphlet she offered and told her to have a nice day.
Speaking of whizbang technotoys, I have been seeing stuff about gps speedometers built into aftermarket dashes hooked to engine management systems for retromods or whatever. That requires (enables) constant location tracking.
Not gonna happen.
Technically not required – nothing about getting a GPS fix requires recording it. But you’re probably correct it’s being recorded somewhere
Plenty of GPS speedometers from a while ago.
No reason for tracking.
I cringe when people’s phone pics are geo-tagged.
I only started doing that on mine so the kids knew where we have been.
Trump just signed the executive order to reschedule marijuana. Now that doesn’t mean anything, because Congress and the Senate have to vote on it don’t they? And they’re a bunch of dickless wonders.
Trump can do this on his own. It’s still illegal, but rescheduling it makes it more similar to trafficking and using Tylenol with codeine.
Looks good Putrid.
I have never done much woodworking unless you count being a framing carpenter, but I can appreciate the artistry and effort that goes into making something like that.
Again looking to Salon with the early information (this grieves me)
The flashpoint of the 119th Congress will not be addressed this year. Lawmakers will head home for the holidays without a vote on extending ACA health subsidies.
The House and the Senate are set to take their last votes today before recessing for the year. A vote on the extension of COVID-era subsidies is not on the official schedule. The subsidies are set to expire on December 31. That means Congress will wait until January to address a guaranteed rise in healthcare costs.
A GOP-led healthcare package without a subsidy extension was passed by the House last night, but the Senate has no plans to take it up.
so far, so good.
Far as I can tell, GOP held their promise. Committe vote excluded ACA subs…
Side tangent perhaps, but it’s always been tedious to hear how the GOP doesn’t have a healthcare plan so by default the left wins on this issue because they push ever-more government intervention. It goes back to the ACA and probably earlier (which was ironically an imitation of a RINO’s healthcare legislation). Free market solutions don’t count as a plan to these people. Even “libertarians” like the cucks at Reason echo these arguments.
And we ignore the various plans that have been put forth on the right. Rand Paul has a plan right now. It won’t pass obviously, but there are plans out there. There have always been plans and ideas to reshape healthcare. Some with less government fuckery, but some with more.
The left wouldn’t entertain any of them because they want to own healthccare. They view it as a winning issue. In their heart of hearts they just know that the people really want Medicare for all/universal care and they will just keep agitating until they get it. Nothing else could ever be considered a serious plan in that worldview.
On the article on Japanese “whiteness” this morning, it’s funny to me that this is from an African American/black writer who interviewed people of Japanese descent (mixed – so they are part white, too, unless we’re following the one-drop rule) who have internalized white progressive culture to attack Japanese culture at large in many cases for what they perceive to be their own adoption of whiteness.
These “diaspora” members may consider themselves Japanese, but ideologically and to a large extent culturally they are far just garden variety basic bitch indoctrinated progs. I’m not here to police anyone’s identity, but calling it as I see it. It’s just all very tedious. They’re Japanese when it comes to being diverse in the larger hierarchy established on the (white dominated) progressive left. They don’t think like Japanese people. One doesn’t even apparently *look* Japanese and can pass for white.
If these people just embraced all aspects of who they are with pride and enjoyed both cultures like normal human beings, they’d probably receive far less criticism. But they see the world through the lens of the white progressive victimhood stack at all times and have to critique Japan and the Japanese based on that.
My two cents as an internet crackpot and, of course, your First Of All Firsters.
And yea Japan is racist as fuck and yes that worldview *partly* evolved out of a deep inferiority complex relative to the West and colonization as I understand the history. But that absolves the Japanese of responsibility for their own actions and agency in the most condescending way possible. They’ve always been xenophobic at best as far as we can tell. Their cultural ties to China probably has just as much to do with the hierarchy of races (and cultures) they’ve developed in their heads throughout history. So the attitudes that led to their atrocities in WW2 and the residual bigotry they have are the result of a complex interplay between various cultures. None of which changes the fact that the Japanese are their own people who made their own choices and developed their own identity in response to the world and history they existed in. Just like white people.
It’s the superior intestine length.
Every group of social primates is ‘racist’ to start, until interbreeding and cultural integration begins (both ways, to an extend). It’s not ‘racism,’ and as many here point out, it’s all about different *cultures.*
Boiled down? Fear and hatred of The Other. Simple as that and works across every group of social primates. Simple as that.
I love my Korean visa describes it as my “Alien Registration Card” in English. Used that to get many laughs from the kids.
That piece was a totally racist prog anti white bit.
18%
The disparity with them and the GOP is that the GOP voters are for some reason happier with the results their own party are producing. Most of the dissatisfaction seems to be that they aren’t Resisting or progging hard enough in response to Bad Orange Man.
More voters also say, according to his same poll, that they’d rather have the Democrats regain control of the House than see the GOP keep it.
It’s good for the GOP that their own base is happy, but they aren’t winning the mushy middle and they certainly aren’t making gains with Dems. I guess you just have to hope that Democratic voters are so demoralized that they just stay home and Republicans get off their ass and vote because they’re happy. But Democrats hate Trump more than anything and want to see him lose. It’s an obsession for most of them so I don’t see this happening.
It’s easy to predict based on the history of midterm elections the Dems will gain seats and probably retake the House. It’s a question of how bad the GOP is going to get its asses kicked in the midterms.
They’ll still ‘win’ though Sean.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/12/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-is-increasing-medical-marijuana-and-cannabidiol-research/
The Order directs the Attorney General to expedite completion of the process of rescheduling marijuana to Schedule III of the Controlled Substance Act (CSA).
The Order directs the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Legislative, Political, and Public Affairs to work with the Congress to allow Americans to benefit from access to appropriate full-spectrum CBD products while still restricting the sale of products that pose serious health risks.
The Order directs HHS to develop research methods and models utilizing real-world evidence to improve access to hemp-derived cannabinoid products in accordance with Federal law and to inform standards of care.