Slightly OT : Not sure where to find this
I'm almost done building a baby cradle. Looks great !
It swings well but I thought it could be interesting to add a small motor to swing it. I've googled around but all I can find is already mounted on something. Anybody heard about a retrofit manual crank or battery powered motor for cradles ? tia |
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... I'm almost done building a baby cradle. Looks great ! It swings well but I thought it could be interesting to add a small motor to swing it. I've googled around but all I can find is already mounted on something. Anybody heard about a retrofit manual crank or battery powered motor for cradles ? tia I would try a yard sale and look for one of those motorized swings that use batteries. You could probably get the motor to mount on your cradle. -- Too much is not enough! rvojtash NOT THIS at comcast (dot) net |
"Junkyard Engineer" wrote in message ... I'm almost done building a baby cradle. Looks great ! It swings well but I thought it could be interesting to add a small motor to swing it. I've googled around but all I can find is already mounted on something. Anybody heard about a retrofit manual crank or battery powered motor for cradles ? If you're willing to use a manual crank, you can rock it by hand for free. B. |
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"Buddy Matlosz" a écrit dans le message de news: ... "Junkyard Engineer" wrote in message ... I'm almost done building a baby cradle. Looks great ! It swings well but I thought it could be interesting to add a small motor to swing it. I've googled around but all I can find is already mounted on something. Anybody heard about a retrofit manual crank or battery powered motor for cradles ? If you're willing to use a manual crank, you can rock it by hand for free. B. |
I think motorizing it might be harder than you think. You want to keep
the natural swinging pendulum motion. How will you attach the motor to do that? I've never seen a motorized cradle before, perhaps there's a good reason why. If you really do want to motorize it, you can usually find gear motors on ebay reasonably priced, or else perhaps use a barbecue rotiserie motor. Rob |
Back when we were at that stage we had a clip on vibrator. (and no not that
kind) The gentle vibrations acted like a car and would knock them right out, and would slowly turn itself off after about 15 mins. Worked like a charm. No modifications to your new cradle. I think it was about $15 at Baby Superstore or place like that. HM |
Herman Munster wrote:
Back when we were at that stage we had a clip on vibrator. (and no not that kind) The gentle vibrations acted like a car and would knock them right out, and would slowly turn itself off after about 15 mins. Worked like a charm. No modifications to your new cradle. I think it was about $15 at Baby Superstore or place like that. HM Seems to me an automatic shut off would be important! Josie |
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