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Anybody have info on any links where to find a rotiserie stand,I've got one to cook chicken but I need one to work on a car with!!!

Auto Twirler is a great product, but if you are going to only work on a frame, you can build your own. Think engine stands. If you have a couple of engine stands you can make new rotating parts for them and use the engine stands.

I made mine in a couple of hours with scrap parts I picked up at work. I haven't used it yet, but I think it will work very well for doing the finish work on my frame.

Check out my build pictures and look at 5 of 20 and you will see them leaning against the front of the frame. The two support pipes are 1 1/4 inch scg 40 pipe. They are welded to a piece of heavy rectangular tube. The rotating parts are two pieces of pipe (I thing 4" and 3 1/2" by 6' long)that fit one inside the other with a 3/4 inch through bolt as the clamping devise. The end plates are 1/2 inch thick. I will weld an angle to the rectangular plate and attach the frame to the angle.

I should be using it in a month or so. I will report on how it works then.

Lonnie,

I did a frame flipper with two engine stands. It worked quite well to clean and paint frame . Pics below.

Dan
http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2951450480071274430qeOjmO

4t6

If you posted this a few months ago; that is where I got the idea of how to make my own. I thank you for the idea. I have seen many frame turners, fact is there is one here where I work that I could have used, but most of them are too complicated for the casual user. Mine will take up little room in storage and I will probable convert one to an engine stand.

This was actually for my brother and he was wanting to build one instead of buy one because he is trading some shop time and help to finish up a project he has been working on for a few years.The shop owner said he could use one bay in the shop and and he would help for one week if my Bro. would build him a flipper. Thanks for the input! I was try'n to get pics of one for him to have something else besides memory to go buy when he builds this thing because I cant help a bit,me and body work dont get along. Thanks again!

that is a neat trick!!!

but how stable is it????

RR,
Was actually quite stable. I had to put a pallet under engine stands to give me the height to clear running board attachments. I still have frame mounted on it. It will be coming inside as I start reassembling my 4 year 4t6. I painted cab doors, dash this week and hope to get started
with the assembly for a spring road test. Will upload my webshots with pics as soon as I figure out the problem with my digital camera.

Dan

I used engine stands for my 49 frame and it is working great. I chose to pull all my brackets off of the frame to paint and have just enough room to spin it around. It has really come in handy for finishing the welds on the subframe.