Rotisserie build

[rgfast]

Hi everyone, I tossed around for months if I should just buy a cheap China rotisserie or build one myself. It came down to it would really easy to just hit send and in a couple of days a truck show up or go out and buy the matials to build one myself. I finally decided I should just build one and thought I'd share it here. I found what I feel is a really good set of plans searching the internet http://redwingsteelworksplans.com so here we begin.
Day one cutting steel


I also picked up long arm jacks from the local Harbor Freight and caster over the internet



so this is my start

 

[rgfast]

Ok day two started out making the small parts, first I laid out caster plates to be cut with porta band





next it was time for some drilling, drill press is my friend LOL



with these made it was time to get around to some welding, I started with my end frames



from there it was back to fabbing parts for pivot points, alot of drilling goes into building this

 

[rgfast]

so to end day two I had the two pivot points made and the two end frames, I must be getting old as I was wore out
here is a pic of two end frames completed


more later

 

[rgfast]

Started today by prepping pivot point for paint

 

[rgfast]

So now it was time to assemble the pivot arms, these call for a 3 pass weld



alittle paint and here you have it



next came the hanger brackets





and to finish things off the body mounting arms



thats it for this weekend, hope to get my 79 Z28 on it next weekend

 

[rgfast]

Ok finally got to make more progress, started today by fabbing up parts for body mounting brackets. These may seem to be over kill but I like them







the rear brackets are much more simple




And finally car mounted up

 

[rgfast]

so all in all I ended up spending about $700 to build this rotisserie and feel it will serve me well for many years to come.
thanks for viewing

 

[70lt1z28]

Beautiful job. Mind if I copy?

Nice thing about yours, I wouldn't be afraid to load it on a trailer and truck it across the country and not worry about it breaking halfway.

 

[FlaJunkie]

GREAT job! Me, I bought one when I needed it...I just do not have the patience/skills anymore to do such a job.

 

[rgfast]

Beautiful job. Mind if I copy?

Nice thing about yours, I wouldn't be afraid to load it on a trailer and truck it across the country and not worry about it breaking halfway.

thanks, I put a link to the plans in my first post but here it is again http://redwingsteelworksplans.com