mr. purdue

[St.stephen]

Did you purchase your rotisserie or construct it? If you purchased it, where and you guessed it, how much.

[mperdue]

Hi St Stephen,

Kmack built the rotisserie for me - he's in San ANtonio and Bryan Tatum (another member here) brought it up to me last weekend. Email kmack about pricing if you're interested. Or see this thread about building one yourself

http://www.classiczcars.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5039&highlight=rotisserie

http://www.classiczcars.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5034&highlight=rotisserie

Kmack shows $300 including shipping in the above thread - mine was a little less because he didn't have to ship it. And Ken did a great job on this one - it's stood up to a bit of abuse on my part because of a few problems I had when mounting the chassis. He was quick too.

Michael

[bryantatem]

Yea, kmack does a good job. I have personally seen 2 that are complete. NICE WORK!!!

-Bryan

[TKR514]

Just painted the underside of my car this weekend. Did not use a rotissery. I found it just as easy to use an engine lift to raise the rear of the car and the front was supported by 2X4's in the rails on saw-horses. It was 2.5 to 3' off the ground and worked well enough without the expense of a rotisserie...

[mperdue]

I need the rotisserie so that I can fairly easily roll the chassis in and out of the garage for sandblasting and painting. I can't do that in my small garage - not to mention the mess! Also it'll be nice be able to stand and not crouch or lay on the floor with paint dripping on my face when I get there. I could have rigged something up but this is the safest way to go I think. Can't even imagine how horrible it'd be to lay under the car while sandblasting.. Yuk

Also when I'm done I can always sell or rent it out - maybe make some of my money back. but even if I don't I think it'll be well worth it - especially if I decide to do this to a few more Z's down the road.

Michael

[St.stephen]

Thanks mr perdue. I just cranked an email out to Kmack. I find this to be an invaluable tool and whether you use it again or not, you ahve it and it's paid for.

The 2X4 idea I guess works, however I would like the ease of wheeling the car in and out of the shop, plus you can wheel it into the corner for storage and what not. I tend to always have a lot of cars at one time so I always have stuff in and out of the shop all the time. being able to roll the car over makes welding floors and such in a heck of a lot easier while standing up.

[TKR514]

Well... that's why I use a $19 funiture dolly. The chassis rolls out for sandblasting and rolls back in just fine. Ther's hardly 350# to deal with so the dolly works great. When the chassis is rolled out, I use the engine lift to raise one side or the other real high to address the rails, etc.. The process was so fast (1 day) that I'm glad that I did not spend extra on a rotisserie. This was just the way I did it, seemed cheap & effective to me...