For those who like to celebrate the New year with unworthy, not an artificial tree, I suggest to make a simple fixture to install it. On the device, it resembles a regular three-jaw Chuck for clamping the tool.
Under body fixtures I used a section of pipe 114Х4 Ø 5 mm,length of 120 mm, in which three drilled radial holes and cut them with the thread M8 Case has been welded to the base steel disc Ø 160X5 mm. Clamping jaws bent on a mandrel from sheet steel with a thickness of 2 mm.
Nests under the bolts can be done in various ways; the simplest of them — the knuckles welded to short sections of tubes. If you want to forest beauty is rotated, the device is easy to connect with the rotation mechanism, it is only necessary to provide in the base of the hole under the flange of the reducer.
And another of the Council that the tree had not fallen into the body is to regularly add water. Therefore, the place of joining of the housing with the base should be sealed, and the device is carefully painted.
G. PRUSOV, Ivanovo