Royce Burnett's Journal

Douglas had requested some pictures of the homebuilt rotisserie, so here we go.

The first picture shows the attachment for the front of the car, you can see the 2 plates that bolt to a RB bumper attachment. The arm rotates on a 2.5 OD pipe welded thru a 1/2" plate, I could have welded more of the pieces together but ya never know what vehicle its going to be bolted to in the future so thought I would leave some room for flexibility. We had to turn the 2.5 OD pipe down a bit to fit thru the outer pipe, it was too tight to rotate before that.

2nd and 3rd picture shows a different angle of the front mount.

Pic 4 shows the rear mount, it looks a bit complex but its basically the front mount with an extra piece of rectangular tubing that I had laying around to fill in between the swing arm and the car. Had 2 wooden blocks bolted thru the tubing and the RB bumper holes. There is two 1/2 inch bits bolted on the same tube so Icould lift the rear end of the car to attach the rotisserie mount to the car. Worked slick with my old chain hoist.

Pic 5 shows the worm drive off a boat winch I picked up, it worked very well for turning the car and holding it at any angle. It was a bit finicky to get mounted and if I was making another one I would be a lot more careful with my measurements when putting this part together.

Both mounts are just made out of some steel tubing, all 3/16 wall thickness. Other plans I'd looked at insisted that one uses trailer hitch material so it fits nice and tightly inside each other, but I didn't worry about that, I figured it could be shimmed with some long strips on 2 of the four sides of the uprights, and it worked great, no slop while lifting with the jacks.

Its not a perfect system but it worked great for me and should be flexible enough to mount to other vehcles if I ever get this one out of my shop.