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Just downloaded free plans from Red Wing steel Works for a 3000 pound capacity body rotisserie. Buy the material and weld it up yourself. Anybody ever done this or engineered one yourself and then built it. Seems to end up about half the cost of a store bought rig. Always wanted one but never had the disposable cash to buy one outright. Need some advice on this one Bolters. Help me out here.


Weeds

Here's my design... went overkill and used 1/4 wall thickness (actually .22) for tighter tolerances.

http://s5.photobucket.com/user/rmccartney/library/Rotisserie%20Fabrication?sort=6&page=1


Inside welds were ground down using a cutoff wheel in this modified tool, 1/4 rod welded to 1/4 shank arbor:


http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y167/rmccartney/Rotisserie%20Fabrication/225a74ce.jpg


http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y167/rmccartney/Rotisserie%20Fabrication/42c22666.jpg


I'd say this would hold anything you want to put on it... The adjustable CG allows you to set up for perfect balance. I can rotate it with the car installed with one finger, and it stays where it stopped.

Robert,

Good looking rig, Thanks for the reply.



Weeds

MPandC love that design. Thanks for posting. Did use cad software to gen the plans?

Thanks for the comments guys. I used AutoCAD to draw up the plans. I've had these posted a few years now and there are duplicates of it all over the world, some of which outfitted lifting cylinders. As I am using two engine hoists to lift the body, I left that feature off on mine.