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

"Junkyard Engineer" wrote in message
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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.

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"Junkyard Engineer" wrote in message
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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 ?

If you're willing to use a manual crank, you can rock it by hand for free.

B.

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"Junkyard Engineer" wrote in message
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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 ?

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