MW> The other day I was in an unfinished furniture store and I noticed MW> they had TV rotating platform. (what do you call em?) It was a MW> simple wooded circle mounted to some kind of hardware assembly that MW> let the wood piece to rotate freely. (The hardware piece was about as MW> big as a dinner plate). The idea is you can easily turn your TV set MW> to face a different direction. I'd like to build my own instead of MW> paying the $50 price tag, but I have no idea where to get the MW> hardware. Anybody know where? Link?
I believe what you are looking for is a "Lazy Susan". Have seen the basic hardware at hardware stores and on the surplus market (try
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Look carefully at the constuction: some are plastic and some are metal; some have few ball bearings some have a lot.
For a TV a large rotating diameter is probably best -- a small diameter can cause a 'tippy' base. And this one may sound obvious but note the position of the television's feet -- you don't want to make the platform too small, nor do you necessarily need to make it as large as the footprint of the TV.
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