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Hi guys, has anyone either purchased or built themselves a rotisserie for their car before?

I can only just justify the need for one hence why I should just make one but at the same time, if I make one I can kiss another 4 weeks of potentially productive car working time goodbye because I'm building a bloody rotisserie....  I mainly want it for the application of the body deadener.  Cleaning the old stuff off, priming and then colour over the deadener doesn't worry me, it's just the application using the Schutz Gun that I feel would achieve a significantly better finish painting it side on and keeping the Schutz Gun upright.  I don't think they would work well on the side let alone almost upside down for some areas.  If the product I use (Terosun, etc) could work through a HVLP ok then it might be ok to apply without the rotisserie.

 

I can get one of these style ones for about $1200 which is pretty good value-

 

Car Rotisserie - Heavy Duty Body 4500LBS

 

I reckon if I made one it would cost around $500 but it's more the time that it would take is more of a killer than the cost.  They look to hold their value pretty well second hand so I could always sell it after using it and realistically only lose $200-$300 at worst.  Or keep it and buy another project when this one finally sees the light of day...

Anyone selling one...?

Cheers!

 

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I haven't....but a poorly made one would terrify me. Surely a good second hand one is the go, as they don't work hard and no-one wants to keep one after they are finished with it

A big consideration would be the weight of the shell you are putting on it....is it a fully dressed chassis or just the body

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11 hours ago, Duncan said:

I haven't....but a poorly made one would terrify me. Surely a good second hand one is the go, as they don't work hard and no-one wants to keep one after they are finished with it

A big consideration would be the weight of the shell you are putting on it....is it a fully dressed chassis or just the body

36 minutes ago, MBS206 said:

For most rotisseries, as Duncan has mentioned, you really don't want a full car on it, you want a stripped shell.
And imagine how many more weeks THAT is going to add to working on the car... :P

You guys need to live a little! Nothing keeps the blood flowing like lying under something that could collapse on you at any time!

The vast majority of the weight of my car is out of it. There's zero attached outside of the interior of the car. It's pretty much full interior but once I take the front seats out it's just the dash and some of the boot contents remaining. I would guess that as it sits it would be already well under a tonne, even less without the seats. 

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55 minutes ago, Shoota_77 said:

You guys need to live a little! Nothing keeps the blood flowing like lying under something that could collapse on you at any time!

The vast majority of the weight of my car is out of it. There's zero attached outside of the interior of the car. It's pretty much full interior but once I take the front seats out it's just the dash and some of the boot contents remaining. I would guess that as it sits it would be already well under a tonne, even less without the seats. 

I've been close enough to stupid heavy things falling when a hydraulic lift broke and dropped a Merc V8 and subframe a foot and a half...

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14 minutes ago, MBS206 said:

I've been close enough to stupid heavy things falling when a hydraulic lift broke and dropped a Merc V8 and subframe a foot and a half...

...and I live a long way from the closest hospital. ...

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A few kg falling from a few feet is enough to move parts of your skull inwards into your brain

Also, there's always news about people getting crushed, and occasionally killed, working under cars

Be safe is your endeavours 

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You guys are focussing on the wrong part of this post and have headed off on an irrelevant tangent!  Clearly I'm not going to put my most prized physical possession (well it will be once I'm finished it...) on a piece of shit contraption that might fail and crush me or my car!  At no point was that even implied I was trying to buy a butchered P.O.S that some shonky clown had thrown together with a gasless MIG.... 

Either way I would love to see the build quality of a rotisserie that has failed.  Actually I'd love to see a photo of one that has failed full stop.  Google fails to deliver.  Never happened??

I'll either make one that won't fail or will buy one that wouldn't fail!

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2 hours ago, Shoota_77 said:

You guys are focussing on the wrong part of this post and have headed off on an irrelevant tangent!  Clearly I'm not going to put my most prized physical possession (well it will be once I'm finished it...) on a piece of shit contraption that might fail and crush me or my car!  At no point was that even implied I was trying to buy a butchered P.O.S that some shonky clown had thrown together with a gasless MIG.... 

Either way I would love to see the build quality of a rotisserie that has failed.  Actually I'd love to see a photo of one that has failed full stop.  Google fails to deliver.  Never happened??

I'll either make one that won't fail or will buy one that wouldn't fail!

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Apologies if I sounded like a arse

My point was that you will not be able to buy a rotisserie that suits your car, you get the rotisserie frame, and then fabricate parts to mount the rotisserie frame to the body

The rotisserie side is easy, but the fabrication of the actual mounts is the tricky part, where to mount so you don't bend/twist the body, plus the geometry involved to get it to turn 

If your capable at fabrication, and can work out where the C/L is in relation to the weight is so it actually can turn, you should be sweet

I would love to see the progress on this just for the thought processes and fabrication 

 

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51 minutes ago, The Bogan said:

Apologies if I sounded like a arse

My point was that you will not be able to buy a rotisserie that suits your car, you get the rotisserie frame, and then fabricate parts to mount the rotisserie frame to the body

The rotisserie side is easy, but the fabrication of the actual mounts is the tricky part, where to mount so you don't bend/twist the body, plus the geometry involved to get it to turn 

If your capable at fabrication, and can work out where the C/L is in relation to the weight is so it actually can turn, you should be sweet

I would love to see the progress on this just for the thought processes and fabrication 

 

Ha ha, all good!

I've almost caved in and realised I'm buying one.  I know myself well enough by now that I will start chasing ADHD butterflies half way through building it and not finish it so I'm better off spending the extra money buying one instead of making one just so I can get into straight away.  I would very much enjoy making one as fabrication is probably a strength and definitely a passion but I don't want that to be at the detriment to the car I'm ultimately building it for!

There's some pretty good ones around for ~$1100 at the moment so I think I'll just go that way.  At the end I sell it or as mentioned, get another project to make further use of it!

Thanks gents.

 

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