Last year I wanted to make one of these:
View: https://youtu.be/O6scAyuJCEU
But the mechanism is quite tricky (even original builder said so!) and house renos got in the way, so it was abandoned to this year.
My 2nd attempt at the mechanism worked OK at first but then decided to have an epic fail.
View: https://www.instagram.com/p/BXnMhnChP6F/?taken-by=evans_central_christmas_lights
So I replaced the old garage door motor with a 12v 10RPM geared motor such as these.
View: https://www.instagram.com/p/BYtyl2RB8wa/?taken-by=evans_central_christmas_lights
Next was to create a tombstone base to hide the mechanics and help weatherproof the motor:
View: https://www.instagram.com/p/BYsyMSbBibE/?taken-by=evans_central_christmas_lights
Next came some more lettering and starting the aging process (cracks and chips off edges), and the grey base coat of paint:
View: https://www.instagram.com/p/BY5jc_FhwvU/?taken-by=evans_central_christmas_lights
View: https://youtu.be/O6scAyuJCEU
But the mechanism is quite tricky (even original builder said so!) and house renos got in the way, so it was abandoned to this year.
My 2nd attempt at the mechanism worked OK at first but then decided to have an epic fail.
View: https://www.instagram.com/p/BXnMhnChP6F/?taken-by=evans_central_christmas_lights
So I replaced the old garage door motor with a 12v 10RPM geared motor such as these.
View: https://www.instagram.com/p/BYtyl2RB8wa/?taken-by=evans_central_christmas_lights
Next was to create a tombstone base to hide the mechanics and help weatherproof the motor:
View: https://www.instagram.com/p/BYsyMSbBibE/?taken-by=evans_central_christmas_lights
Next came some more lettering and starting the aging process (cracks and chips off edges), and the grey base coat of paint:
View: https://www.instagram.com/p/BY5jc_FhwvU/?taken-by=evans_central_christmas_lights
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