Cleaning them up, marking out and drilling some holes was next,
Then placing the spikes in the holes and putting a couple of welds on them to hold them in place, I ended up with two of these, (the bits that Igge Orego likes) to jamb into the carcass to hold them in place on the spit bar.
I have to go over to Griffith and pick up my main bar from a mate over there, 4ft 6" of 316 stainless 5/8th inch rod, so I cant put up a photo of that till later. I originally asked him if he had any shot out stainless barrels, but he suggested the rod would be better, I am still unsure as it would have been a novel idea to use shot out barrels.
Next built the stand in three parts, one H shaped stand for each end, held together with one bar that goes underneath the spit bed for support, welded a couple of 3" x 3/8th inch cup head bolts into the end of some 1" round pipe, the same stuff was used to make the legs and top cross bar of the end legs. I ended up with it set up like this.
Still need to weld on a couple of 2" pieces of 1/2 inch square tube onto one of the legs on each end to hold a rod that will go from end to end to stop some of the lateral wobble, that's going on tomorrow.
I had an old stainless fridge rack that I liberated from somewhere 25 odd years ago that was in the back of the cupboard, I have used it heaps of times when camping for a grill rack over an open fire, just coincidentally it was exactly half the length of the bed and twice as wide, si I cut it in half and then welded another rod on the side, cut out a couple of slots and it fits in perfectly for grilling/cooking over the coals, also would work well as a toasting rack.
Fitted in place, I looks like this.
Still need to do a fair bit of work, tidying up some of my pigeon shit welding, smoothing out ends, priming and painting the legs, etc, but it came up just the way I wanted it to, and seeing how I have a distinct lack of patience with things, Jo and I had to give it a try out tonight for dinner. Char grilled chicken thighs with jacket potatoes wrapped in foil and cooked over the coals, had some peas and corn along with a couple of Turkish rolls cut in half and toasted.
It was that bloody good chewing, that I didn't take a photo of it plated up, but I am sure you will have an idea of what tucker on a plate looks like.
While we were down at the club tonight for a couple of rums and the chook raffles, I ran into a bloke who lives up the road, and I mentioned my ideas for the making of the spit rotisserie, told him I was on the lookout for a 28inch pushbike front wheel, and a windscreen wiper motor, he had the wheel and said I could go up and take my pick as he has a few, the other bloke who was sitting with us, mentioned that he had an old stuffed hilux out at his farm and said I could go and scavenge the wiper motor out of it, Ill try and get the wiper control off the steering column as well so I can have a variable speed spit, could even use it on intermittent and am thinking of getting the washer bottle/pump and plastic hose so I can have an automatic baste sprayer on it.
I am hoping to use as much stuff as I can scrounge, beg, borrow, steal or liberate. So far it has only cost me the electricity for the cutting and welding, cause I am a cheap arsed bastard.
Ill follow up with some more tomorrow night, hopefully it will get its first turning at the Missathon.
now that's how to get your post count up.