cheap rotesserie???

[dodgeboy67]

anyone have a rotesserie for sale??? or know of a cheaper alternative???

[73rallye440magnum]

my buddy made his own it cost about 60 bucks. not sure where the plans were though. they were on the new somewhere.

[ChargerHead]

Dodgeboy-

Check out the link below, they sell a complete rotisserie for less than $800;
http://www.autotwirler.com/autotwirler.htm

And another one here for $725;
http://www.theroto2000.com/auto_rotisserie_pricing.htm

Just looking at it, it may be somewhat easy to build if have skills with welding;
http://www.autorestorer.com/articles/art106.html

I'll be looking for one myself when I get my Charger!   Good luck!

[mkcharger]

I have a set of plans that I used to build mine, it worked great. If you give me your email address I will send it to you.

[dodgeboy67]

I have a set of plans that I used to build mine, it worked great. If you give me your email address I will send it to you.

i sent you an email....but if you dont get itlet me know....your help is appreciated

[Blown70]

I think a member here had built his own  69hemi.com?  I think the plans are on that site too.

[69hemi]

I think a member here had built his own   69hemi.com?   I think the plans are on that site too.

Thanks Blown 70  there are plans for a nice rotesserie on the website www.69hemi.combut I don't think the words"cheap" and "rotesserie" should be used together when you will be working around it....just a thought.

[dodgecharger-fan]

I did a modified rendition of ChargerBill's plans - only because the materials I had access to were different.

Mine was cheap, but only because the materials were free. Even pro welding was free, but it all had to be done in spare time.
It took a year.
The only things I spent money on were casters and some bolts to use as pins.





I would suggest to anyone trying this type of project that you should avoid using round tube unless you have the tools to deal with it.
You don't know how difficult it is to drill a hole through a tube with a 10" drill press from Sears until you've tried it... I did it, but it was no fun at all.
Square tube is a lot easier to work with.

The end result though is great. That tube is 3" outsode diameter with almost a 1/4" wall. The welds penetrate.
I wanted to put some corner braces on and was laughed at.

[mkcharger]

Here is a Cut & Paste from another site. I found this a while ago. This person used two Harbor Freight cherry pickers to make his rotesserie. Looks pretty good.

You probably gave up on me, but here are links to pictures of my 67 Camaro rotisserie with two 8-ton hydraulic rams, with super-imposed dimensions and comments.
As pictured the center of gravity is great for a coupe. For a convertible the center of gravity is 1" lower, so there are notes on the pictures on which arms need to be altered. If you don't shorten the arms for a convertible you need to add 75+ lbs. to the top of the windshield frame in order for the convertible to be weighted correctly. That may be too much weight for the windshield frame to bear over a long period of time. Besides you probably will just be assembling a rotator for either or, not both.

These are my original pictures and I have welded some nuts for flat strap attaching points. The straps are added for lateral end-to-end stabilization during board sanding. If you do not stabilize this rotisserie somehow, you will get nasty end-to-end swaying during lengthwise board sanding. This is probably true with other folk’s design also. With straps installed you cannot rotate the body, period.

Base stands with connecting rod dimension: http://www.surfari.net/~scottmoo/roto.jpg

Front mounting bracket: http://www.surfari.net/~scottmoo/frontfront1.jpg

Rear mounting bracket (2 pictures). Don’t forget to weld the nuts on the angle iron brackets before the angle iron is welded to the tubing!!!: http://www.surfari.net/~scottmoo/rearframe1.jpg
http://www.surfari.net/~scottmoo/rearframe2.jpg

Two #7620 Harbor Freight hoists were used. This lettered picture shows the origin of the square tubing parts:
http://www.surfari.net/~scottmoo/hist7620.jpg

Additionally, 5" of 1" steel pipe, 18" of 2 1/2" I.D. steel pipe, 24" of 2" I.D. pipe, 14" of 2"x2" angle iron, SAE treaded 1/2" nuts and bolts, a couple 5/8" bolts with washers for the front mounting to the cage nuts. And, I used 5" casters instead of the casters that were supplied with the hoists.

All of the hoist square tubing and steel pipe has nearly an 1/8" wall thickness.

Here again was a picture of the leftover hoist kit stuff:
http://www.surfari.net/~scottmoo/xtrapart.jpg

Due to the sail panels on coupes, it is necessary to raise the body approximately 3" higher than on a convertible to clear the center connecting rod. There is no way around this on this design. So, on a coupe there will be from 8" to 9" of vertical post overlap, where a convertible with have close to 12" of vertical post overlap.

I will be back from time to time to add to this post as questions and time arise.

It took me 3 weekends to fabricate it with some trial and error. I'm thinking you could do it in two weekends since I've supplied dimensions.
You will definitely burn the paint off the square tubing with a heat setting of "C" or "D" on a 110volt Lincoln Mig welder with .035 wire. You could use a scotchbrite pad on a roloc wheel to sand off the paint, but I just used my electric grinder with a coarse abrasive wheel to prep the area. You need to sand off at least 1/2" worth of paint next to each weld, then sand off the rest of the burnt paint later.

Unfortunately, the telescoping vertical tubing in these kits fit very sloppy. As stating in these previous two posts, I needed to strike welding beads the entire length of the inner post.

Here are the two other posts that I started this whole project with back in May of 2002.
http://www.camaros.net/forum/Forum3/HTML/002845.html http://www.camaros.net/forum/Forum3/HTML/003947.html

Well, I'm done with all my patch panels on the convertible, and I have about 6 weekends of firewall and underside painting before I can finally put this rotisserie in storage.
Later dudes!


Coupe on rotisserie http://www.surfari.net/~scottmoo/coupe.jpg http://www.surfari.net/~scottmoo/coupeups.jpg http://www.surfari.net/~scottmoo/coupside.jpg http://www.surfari.net/~scottmoo/coupside2.jpg

Convertible on rotisserie, HOWEVER RECOMMENDED ARM SHORTING IS NOT SHOW IN THESE PICTURES: http://www.surfari.net/~scottmoo/convdiag.jpg http://www.surfari.net/~scottmoo/conv90deg.jpg

[This message has been edited by bonecrusher67conv (edited 02-03-2003).]

[dodgeboy67]

i surely appreciate your help guys....as soon as i start building ill let you knowit will be a winter project

[haueter66]

i turned a hay wagon into one for myself...

have to scan some pics

[moparguy01]

Do yourself a favor and use bearing blocks where you turn the car over, otherwise it'll be a bear to turn over. Also, I'd put a chain drive setup with crank on the one end to make turning the car over easier on yourself. and if you do it right you can give yourself a 5 or 6:1 ratio and make it real easy. thats what the boss did when he built the one at the shop. makes it real easy. its also got pnuematic tires. I can roll it outside by myself, or around the shop by myself pretty easy.

[tin_soldier]

Here is a link to the cheapest rotesserie you will most likely ever find.     I could not beleive it.   Good thing there are pixs

    


Got it off a british car fourm.

http://www.ado13.com/flip/flipper.html

[dodgeboy67]

cool....thanx a bunch

[dodgecharger-fan]

I'd love to get this guy's plans...

http://forum.eastwood.com/showpost.php?p=2612&postcount=7

[AirborneSilva]

I'd love to get this guy's plans...

http://forum.eastwood.com/showpost.php?p=2612&postcount=7

I'm with you on that....!  If you do happen to run across them please share 

[haueter66]

Here is a picture (finally) of my hay wagon conversion ... very low investment and it worked!

[doitmopar]

 :icon_smile_cool:Look at the plans on this web site www.68hemi.com.They work very well and they are easy to build ,work great on my 74 charger.

[Charger_Fan]

Well Haueter, I guess you won't have to worry about any pebbles or ruts getting in the way while you roll that one around!

[tin_soldier]

www.68hemi.com dosen't work  whats the deal??   

[AirborneSilva]

That's because it should be 69hemi.com 

[haueter66]

It moved very nicely    Most of the time when I was moving in/out I was by myself so I hooked the tractor up and away I went

The downside of my design is that you have to have a lift to get the car on/off the unit... but since I already had the wagon and the steel only cost about $40 it was worth it...

[Charger Aficionado]

This guy is right by me, and I am very familiar with his product.  This product is SUPERIOR to all the others I have ever seen...   I will be a Proud owner soon (for the C500)... 

      >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> http://carotator.com/