WOOHOO MY ROTISSERIE WORKS!

geodon Wolfsburg Wizard

478 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 21 Dec 2002, 1:15 pm

#16349

No more lying on my back welding upside down!!

rustybug Casual Dubber

38 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 21 Dec 2002, 1:17 pm

#16352

Excellent work!!!:thumb

KruizinKombi Seriously Obsessed Cyber Dubber

3,493 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 21 Dec 2002, 1:29 pm

#16358

Awesome!!! :thumb So how much do you think it cost you to make?

Kruizin Kol

The_Bronze. Minister of Volkswagenism

1,922 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 21 Dec 2002, 1:45 pm

#16362

Here's me salivating in anticipation of the sights of a BBQ - Roast chicken, crackled pork, crispy beef, apple sauce, cold salads, fruit platters, cues of leaking eskys and sauce bottle dotting the table.

Oh well - This looks good too 😀.

Bronze.

Rathmines, Lake Macquarie, NSW.

geodon Wolfsburg Wizard

478 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 21 Dec 2002, 2:12 pm

#16368

Steel was about $700. The castors were horrendous- about $70 EACH. I got the professionals to do the welding on the main stuff (eg rotating head) as I wasn't confident of my 170amp mig penetrating 8mm steel but that was free as I was owed a favour or two.
The basic design using heavy plates & bolts to clamp everything together is brilliant because that made it cheap & flexible re were to attach things. The connections at the front were very straightforward:...

geodon Wolfsburg Wizard

478 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 21 Dec 2002, 2:16 pm

#16370

......in the rear, I had a choice of the rear apron mounts or giant U-bolts around the rear torsion bar housings. I went for the rear apron but cross braced it to the rear bumper mounts.

geodon Wolfsburg Wizard

478 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 21 Dec 2002, 2:24 pm

#16372

The orig reference (solohobbitt- from this site) used screw jacks from slide on campervans. They cost about $400 each & had a lift capacity of only 500kg and a lift height of only about 400mm. I improvised with 2 1500mm lengths of 24mm allthread. I welded the nut to suit the allthread to a piece of angle & welded that to the lifting piece. The bottom of the allthread pushed on a bucket made with 30mm ID tube filled with washers & grease. A 36mm nut was welded to the top of the all thread & I use an air ratchet to take it up & down

[Edited on 21-12-2002 by geodon]

splitbusaustralia Wolfsburg Wizard

487 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 21 Dec 2002, 7:00 pm

#16419

That's lookin good george! Scars from falling welding slag do fade after about ten years or so - so they tell me anyway!

RobK

11CAB If ya got it....Baja it

4,674 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 21 Dec 2002, 7:43 pm

#16429

Very impressive! Job well done :thumb
Does it turn over completely? It looks as though it only goes as far as you have it in the pics.
I would have been apprehensive the first time i went to rotate it.....nothing like putting a kombi on its lid.......:o

65 Meyers Manx
68 Country Buggy (KO 367)
68 Country Buggy (KO 669)
68 Country Buggy (KO 789)
68 Country Buggy (KO 815)
68 Baja Bug
76 Baja Kombi Twincab

kombi_kid Moderator Good Kid too many projects

124 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 21 Dec 2002, 7:47 pm

#16432

that looks and would work great!!!!!!!! good design!!!!!!!
i like it!
cheers
rhys

it aint just cool its aircool'd

geodon Wolfsburg Wizard

478 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 22 Dec 2002, 4:42 pm

#16567

I can lift it higher & it will go 360. But why would you want to?
This way (about 270) I can rest it on one of the rotating crossbeams for stability when working then just swing over if I want to switch sides.
I deliberately left the steering box in with the column attached to remove afterwards- what a breeze removing it when the floor is vertical!

11CAB If ya got it....Baja it

4,674 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 23 Dec 2002, 9:08 pm

#16807

Doh......should have realised that.
anyway job well done.
Luckily my buggy chassis is easy enough to pick up and rotate by hand. 😀

65 Meyers Manx
68 Country Buggy (KO 367)
68 Country Buggy (KO 669)
68 Country Buggy (KO 789)
68 Country Buggy (KO 815)
68 Baja Bug
76 Baja Kombi Twincab

SKEWtYpe3 Custom Title Time!

1,859 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 26 Dec 2002, 2:32 pm

#17189

Awesome ! Love it but if it were mine i would still have a few mattresses under neath it.............just in case
(plus i am normally kinda paranoid)
🙂 Good Job !:bounce

vw54 Administrator Always Waiting 4 Friday

16,723 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 26 Dec 2002, 7:19 pm

#17219

thats the only way to do a Kombi resto... hope the van turns out as good as the work stand...

I read it on FACEBOOK so it must be true

http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=91278&page=1#pid848630

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Bizarre Moderator The artist formerly known as blue74l

12,789 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 26 Dec 2002, 7:30 pm

#17222

Ummm....Geodon

Surley you aint gunna do all this work just for ONE kombi resto?

:cussing:bounce:cussing:bounce

Futue te ipsum!!!

geodon Wolfsburg Wizard

478 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 26 Dec 2002, 8:39 pm

#17236

I hope to get 1 good bus out of these 2.
Plus Matara's '67 12volt part camper in another shed.
Geez semi-retirement is great!