WOOHOO MY ROTISSERIE WORKS!

No more lying on my back welding upside down!!

Excellent work!!!:thumb

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

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 😀.

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:...

......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.

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]

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

RobK

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

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

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!

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

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

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

Ummm....Geodon

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

:cussing:bounce:cussing:bounce

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!