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 geodon
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| posted on December 21st, 2002 at 01:15 PM |
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WOOHOO MY ROTISSERIE WORKS!
No more lying on my back welding upside down!!
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| posted on December 21st, 2002 at 01:17 PM |
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WHAT A TOP JOB.
Excellent work!!!:thumb
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KruizinKombi
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| posted on December 21st, 2002 at 01:29 PM |
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Awesome!!! :thumb So how much do you think it cost you to make?
Kruizin Kol
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The_Bronze.
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| posted on December 21st, 2002 at 01:45 PM |
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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  .
[size=4]Bronze.[/size]
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geodon
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| posted on December 21st, 2002 at 02:12 PM |
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Adding it up.
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:...
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geodon
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| posted on December 21st, 2002 at 02:16 PM |
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Rear mounts
......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.
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geodon
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| posted on December 21st, 2002 at 02:24 PM |
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UP & DOWN
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]
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| posted on December 21st, 2002 at 07:00 PM |
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That's lookin good george! Scars from falling welding slag do fade after about ten years or so - so they tell me anyway!
RobK
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| posted on December 21st, 2002 at 07:43 PM |
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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
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 kombi_kid
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| posted on December 21st, 2002 at 07:47 PM |
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that looks and would work great!!!!!!!! good design!!!!!!!
i like it!
cheers
rhys
it aint just cool its aircool'd
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geodon
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| posted on December 22nd, 2002 at 04:42 PM |
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11cab-360 degrees??
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!
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| posted on December 23rd, 2002 at 09:08 PM |
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Doh......should have realised that.
anyway job well done.
Luckily my buggy chassis is easy enough to pick up and rotate by hand.
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| posted on December 26th, 2002 at 02:32 PM |
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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
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| posted on December 26th, 2002 at 07:19 PM |
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thats the only way to do a Kombi resto... hope the van turns out as good as the work stand...
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| posted on December 26th, 2002 at 07:30 PM |
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Ummm....Geodon
Surley you aint gunna do all this work just for ONE kombi resto?
:cussing:bounce:cussing:bounce
Futue te ipsum!!!
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geodon
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| posted on December 26th, 2002 at 08:39 PM |
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Meet the ladies in waiting...
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!
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