Question to the more experienced listers and/or engineertypes(mechanical and the like)

[mardak at cogeco.ca (Mark)]

I've been thinking of doing the same thing.  I have Kervin's old 80 S in
a huge heated space on the main floor of my loft for something to do
this winter.  A rotisserie would be sweeeeeeet...  This car will require
a complete teardown to make it nice...  Stripping and prepping the
bottom would be SO nice with the car vertical.

The bumper mount idea is how I was planning on doing it as well.  From
the research I've done on rotisseries, this is the way it's usually
done, but I didn't find any VW specific examples.

Let me know about anything you find.  I need a project to practice with
the welder I'm hoping to get for x-mas! :)

Mark.
80 S
81 S  ABA/JH/4K

> -----Original Message-----
> From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org [mailto:scirocco-l-
> bounces@scirocco.org] On Behalf Of John C. Worden
> Sent: November 18, 2003 7:47 PM
> To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: Question to the more experienced listers and/or engineer
> types(mechanical and the like)
> 
> So I've been working on the '78, up on it's 4' sawhorses, but they
aren't
> as steady as I would like.
> So I was going to weld up a stand for each end out of steel when I
thought
> of a suggestion my
> father-in-law had made- a rotisserie.  What I would use to mount the
car
> to
> the rotisserie is a piece
> of 2" box tubing across where the bumpers would normally be with a
10-12"
> piece going into the
> opening for the bumper mount and using the existing mount holes to
bolt
> on.  The question(finally)is
> do you think this area(mine is in good shape) will hold the shell of
the
> car, which is stripped?  It is not
> very heavy as 4 of us had no problem lifting it up on the sawhorses in
the
> first place, but I would like to
> get some opinions of people who may have experience or technical
> knowledge.  Having it on a rotisserie
> will make it easier to work on since I will be able to rotate the car
> depending on what area I am working on
> and after this project, with a change to the mounting bars I can use
it to
> restore my '69 MGB which has been
> waiting for resto. since '97.