The Dilema: Period Town Houses & Modern Car Access...
The Solution: An Aardvark Car Turntable
Sizes Available:3.6m diameter
3.9m diameter 4.2m diameter 4.5m diameter 4.8m diameter 5.1m diameter 5.4m diameter 5.7m diameter 6.0m diameter |
Construction:* Deck: Laser cut 5mm thick steel panels.
Surface finnish choise: a) Chequer plate. b) Anti slip "grit" paint on flat pannels. * Deck support: "Spiders' web" of 80mm x 40mm x 5mm steel rolled hollow section constructed with a "crowned" top surface for added strength when under vehicle load. * Outer frame: 80mm x 80mm x8mm steel angle section formed into hoops. * Deck support bearings: Multiple "silent" hard nylon wheels on 20mm diameter shafts. * Deck concentricity maintenance: Multiple "silent" hard nylon wheels on 20mm diameter shafts. |
Drive system:* High speed electric motor with direct drive to small capacity hydraulic pump (power pack), to drive low speed high torque hydraulic motor connected to a single drive sprocket which engages with a pin wheel drive system on the outer periphery of the moving turntable.
* (2 idler sprockets at 120degrees to the primary drive sprocket maintain concentricity of turntable as it rotates). |