My rotisserie build

[scherp69]

I know some guys have asked about the rotisserie I built, so I thought I'd take some more pics of it and post them. Unfortunately, unlike the car, I didn't take any pics of the build process. But here are several photos of it and comments including some measurements.

Here's the basic design of the rotisserie. In the end, I made some changes, but this is the main structure. All the main tubing is 2 1/2" square tubing. The gussets that connect the bottom frame to the post going up are 2". The square tube around the post going up is 3" seamless. The post going up is five feet high and the two lengths on the bottom frame are four feet long each. I used a 4" castors. The 2 castors in the middle do not swivel or have brakes where all the others do.



These are the parts where all the adjustments can be made. For the ease of this thread, I'll just call these T-bars. They are made of 2" tubing. The one in the front was eventually cut to the same length as the back one - 5 feet. The piece coming up is 2 feet long. I eventually put gussets on these to support them also. You might not have to put as many gussets as I did, but I figured better be safer than sorry.



These are the bottle jacks I used to lift the car. I got them from Princess Auto for $40 each.



Here's a close up of where the one piece bolts to the car and how it attachs to the base of the rotisserie.