Hello, long ago I told of the project that Kautz Farm Cars undertook to build a rotisserie for the Midgets. Now you may say, Jay, do you even like chicken that much?? Well I have to say that its not that kind of rotisserie and now I have pictures to prove it. Below is the documentation of the completed build. Now I have to apologize for not having step by step pictures on how this was build but I can roughly walk you through the steps:
1. Argue about Design
2. Think about buying 2" pipe to build the project, see cost
3. Buy 2" tubing because its cheaper and this is a fabrication project, also buy just a bit of 3.5 and 4"
4. Cutting
5. Bend a drill chuck quill shaft with a 4" hole-saw, don't worry the hole-saw is fine (???)
6. Welding
7. More Cutting
8. Some light lay out work and drilling
9. More Welding
10. Twice to Harbor Freight
11. Scour the shop to find bits to make rotisserie to car adapters
12. More Welding
13. Hitting wood blocks with hammers
14. Bolting
15. Now you have a rotisserie!
15a. Paint
Now some sights would charge hundreds of dollars for this step by step knowledge, but since we are all friends at Kautz Farm Cars I will let you have all of this for free. If you are feeling generous share the site or click on the ads, but I'm giving this knowledge to you.
Now the part you've been waiting for the pictures.
I am extremely happy with how this turned out, its very stable and just by eyeballing the mount locations the car naturally sits at almost any angle that you put it at. A testament to how easy it is to sight the CG of an MG.
You obviously need a bigger drill press, my Walker Turner 1112-41 would laugh at a 4" hole saw.
ReplyDeleteI don't blame the press, a 4" saw off center through 2" 0.25 wall tubing is a bad idea.
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