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How to build your own Blow Mold Carousel
By Thomas Steiner


Here is what you need:

Plastic round table top, remove all 4 legs, they just pull out
Rotating tree stand
Small 1 ¼” PVC pipe
Piece of lamp cord, SPT 2
12 female outlets, SPT 2
12 male plugs, SPT 2
Plenty of 1” threaded screws to the top
Blow Molds
Silicone seal

You will need a plastic round table top, remove all 4 legs. You can use plywood. Use a rotating tree stand. Insert a 1 ¼” PVC to join table to tree stand (fits in hole to hold tree), the turntable (tree stand) comes with two rotating outlets.



The PVC pipe you will screw in, from the outside of the rotator, just like a Christmas tree.



Get a piece of lamp cord and add one male plug and seven female outlets. Then drill a 1 ¼” hole in table to pull the wire out thru the top, Do not add the female outlets until you have wire going thru the hole.

Here is part 2 of the Carousel.


The male plug is connected to the turntable, wire comes out other side of drilled hole and you add the female outlets to the wire.





What I did with blow molds to install them, first, I put all the molds on top of the table to where I like them. Then I made an outline on the table and screwed them from the bottom up. Make sure that screws that you use have threads all the way up the screw. In other words, do not use wood screws. I use 1” screws. The blow molds are the last pieces to go on.



As for the wire, drill a hole near the center of the table, just barely the width of the cable, insert cable thru the table top. Add the male plug end on the side where rotator will be, all you will need on that side is about 6 to 8 inches, the other side (top) you will add the females, to as many blow molds as you will use. You may want to use silicone around blow molds for a light waterproof seal. But not recommended.

You can build one of these in less than thirty minutes. You can get the male plugs and female outlets at actionlighting.com. Action Lighting number is 1-800-248-0076. You may want to order a couple of dozen. Usually order one dozen of the males / 3 dozen of the females. When you order make sure to get SPT 2, do not order the SPT 1 wire, use the heavier SPT 2 wire. It cost about $75.00 to build the Blow Mold Carousel depending on today’s prices. Okay, there you have it, your very own Blow Mold Carousel. Simple and easy to make. Enjoy!!

This is sounding quite interesting. I'll be showing hubby to see if this is do-able this year. His the lighting expert in our family.

I will show this to my DH he loves to make stuff for christmas so he may do this one! I sure hope so! LOL thanks so much!

That is just fantastic!