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!