lazy susan running disc

[fred]

It has been mentioned here before, but I am not sure whether anybody actually made one. I have made a running disc for my girls and they really love it. Ratte got the hang of it in five minutes and Mäuschen took only a little longer to warm to it. Here is a short clip of Ratte on the disc www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6uUtEsWwhY. I am not sure whether it is such a good idea in a cage because it takes up so much floor space and they occasionally take a flying departure, but it is great fun in the play area .

I have simply fixed the SNUDDA (lazy susan) serving dish with three screws to a board of kiln dried timber (to deflect the destructive force of these little teeth). The place mat SOARE (cheaper alternatives have been mentioned) has then been attached with four small nails. All was done is ten minutes and cost just nine pounds.

[moletteuk]

OMG I love it!

I always thought it would need to be dished, but with the rafia surface it's grippy enough to work perfectly with the flat surface on a slope. Genius!

I've still got a spare lazy susan bearing, so I'll have to get busy!

[kovu07]

Oww that made me feel dizzy. A lovely idea though.

[joodles]

that's brilliant! i was watching it when Tabasco appeared on my shoulder and seemed transfixed - and then turned and looked at me as if to say ok mum, where's mine?

[deguconvert]

OK . . . not so brilliant DYI gal here . . . how did you affix it to the wooden 2X4 boards? I really like that, Fred!! It moves so easily, it's great! Looks like you could even increase the angle of ascent to give them even more of a work out, so that they are spurting forward and then pausing for a bit.

[fred]

I am pretty c**p at DIY so if I can do it, it must be easy. I have just used three screws from the board side into the foot of the lazy susan. There was no need to disassemble and reassemble lazy susan (in contrast to a more elegant assembly that can be found on the web). Hope this is clear enough (no good at DIY-specific English either).

The lazy susan / board unit is heavy enough so that I don't need to affix it to whatever I use to produce the angle. In fact, I am using different angles all the time -it's hilarious to watch them finding out it has changed once again ;D