Is an auto rotisserie worth having for 1 or 2 jobs? I am considering building or buying one to do the body work on my Monte. The wife wants to buy a 64-65 mustang and it could be used for that as well. I think I can build one for under $350. It would be a fixed height design.

Thanks for any info.

Bill Sobers USMC

With a rototisserie you can do a lot nicer job on a car, I would definitely get one, heres one http://www.1969supersport.com/roto.html that will give you some ideas, and I would say around $300 would build it.

I had some of the steel laying around when I built it but it didn't cost much, and its sandblast tested.

That means after you have sand blasted the floors and cowl you will have a lot of sand in the body, and you can still roll it over.

Rob

After I sand blasted it I tried to roll it over and couldn't, so I stood up on the outside edge of the front brackets and bounced my weight up and down and finally got it to move, then rolled it over and got the sand out, then it rolled easy.

I should have took some sand out first, but anyway that shows you how strong it is, and I weigh about 190.

Rob

:yes: A rotisserie was worth having for just one job. :thumbsup: I built my own and was only out a couple hundred $.

Having done a car without one, I would have get one for the next time around. If I were planning two cars, it would be no brainer.

Of course, if you posted this in Tools & Shops, my answer would have been you can't have too many tools.

I built one that was featured in Popular Hotrodding with about $350.00 in materials. I let the steel shop cut my tubing to length to save some time. Once you are done, you can always sell it.

Thank you for all the responses. I guess I will build one when I return from deployment.

Bill Sobers USMC

Here's some fairly decent plans. I'll tweak them a bit to match my needs.

http://www.mts.net/~hpokrant/Restoration_Tips/1-Rotisserie/Rotisserie.htm

I went to 3 different shops that sell metal and the cheapest would have been over 650. I bought one from ebay ( guy was using it on his Camaro) I modified it to work on several types of cars....good luck! I love mine.

Make sure if you build your own, that you gusset all welds, you do not want the thing to come apart once your body is on it. Also get the widest "stance" you can so it doesn't tip over on you.........saw that happen once.........wasn't a pretty sight. Look at all the different manufactures of rotisseries and combine the best features into your own. That's how I built mine last year....should have done it 20 years ago. Cost was around $750 including 8-ton rams on both ends and six 6" nylon wheels for rolling it around.

How tall does your garage have to be to complete a full rotation while on the rotisserie? Don't mean to hijack your thread...

I have standard 8' ceilings and the only thing possibly in my way is the garage door opener.

This is the one I am using, it should be able to handle most types of cars.
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m93/clarkbar04/GTO/itsoff.jpg

I built a cradle for mine out of plywood and 4X4's. It only cost a few bucks to make, allowed full access to the underside and when the project was done, I just threw it away. There are some pics on my web site showing how it attached.

Tom