After resting a bit, I got back to the carousel and kept going at full speed.
It made me laugh that the next step was adding a kind of liquid wax to the plastic parts and to the gear right above the motor. I usually use solid wax, so this one surprised me because it’s much more gel-like. The kit comes with a little wooden piece meant to be used as a tool to apply it, but if you have a silicone brush at home, like the one I use for white glue, it actually works really well to spread the wax evenly along the whole path.
Another little trick: to apply the wax to the gear area, I recommend plugging the carousel in, letting it turn a little, and then stopping it so you can add wax bit by bit to the different sections. Trying to turn it by hand is a bad idea. In fact, you really can’t, which is honestly a good thing because it means it stays firm and doesn’t spin on its own. But since the wax needs to go all around the gear, turning it on and off little by little made it much easier for me.
The next step was starting to build the central column of the carousel. There’s a base section, and then the column starts going up, the one that hides the wires and will support the canopy later. Around it go the mirrored pieces that cover it all. As you can see, there are more gears here too, and they connect with the smaller one from before. My recommendation again: add wax there too. There is never enough wax!! hahaha
Once the gears were fitted in place, I closed the whole column with the large and small mirrored pieces and attached it on top of the carousel base. And with that… the whole base was done!!!
It looks amazing already. I admit I made it spin a few times just to enjoy seeing that everything worked properly, and honestly, I do recommend testing it as you go. Later on, the horses will be attached into the little holes, and that’s exactly why it’s important that the plastic part I showed before is well lubricated, because the horses will slide through that section.
The only problem is that if you make it spin too much, it slowly loses some of that lubrication. But well… if my granny ever needs it later, I’ll figure out how to open it again somehow 
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.And I’ll leave it here for now. Next step: the carousel horses, which is going to take me a while because I want to paint the edges nicely.
Thank you so much for reading, I hope these little tips are useful, and I wish you all a very happy week! 
