Motorizing model part - pick your brains

CosmicQuest

Sr Member
Hey friends. As I am finishing up my lunar diorama, I am in the planning process of my next build, which is an old school colony transport. This will have a section that is supposed to spin to simulate gravity. I am toying with the idea to actually motorize it. I wanted to pick your brains to see what you all thought would be the best way to do this? I think it would be great to make it slow enough to match the scale of the vessel, which will be n scale. Any thoughts are greatly appreciated, even if your thought is to tell me not to try it, lol.
 
Check out Lou Dalmaso's and Ken Sprigg's videos on how they motorized the rotation of the 2001 space station V. Lou's channel is aztec dummy. They set the rotation at 1 rpm to match the scale of the model.
 
AC powered gear motors are the way to go. You can get them in a variety of speeds, but if you need something very specific, you'll have to gear it down or up yourself but adding more gears.

TazMan2000
 
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