Uses of a rotisserie

Hi, yeah I know, dne’ just where have you been?!!;)  I get so busy with projects, I forget to blog! 😉

I actually dediciate this blog to my friends over at Cy-Fair coatings https://www.cy-faircoatings.com/ as I couldn’t do the good work I’ve accomplished over the recent years;)

I dub the title of this Blog, Uses of a rotisserie~ I can’t say enough about this unique tool in how beneficial it is in performing quality, professional and easy on the back work. I won’t go into detail of how I fabricated my own rotisserie, I did mention a little on its fabrication on some other blog. But for those DIY’ers which do restorations, or whatever, the Rotisserie is fabulous;)

meh, about 1.5 years ago (July ’21), I picked up a ’72 Bronco project, and below I have the tub/body on my rotisserie. I had just gotten it centered/balanced and just posing for a Glamour shot;) I had just completed a lot of metal replacing~

This has been a familiar sight here, loading a project to take to sandblast at the blasters(Cy-Fair coatings) just around the block from me!  My 14′ trailer is so perfect for my needs!!

The fellas over at Cy-fair coating know me by name, and they indeed appreciate my projects being a on the Rot, just makes it easier for them, plus as one may imagine, it costs much more if a project in NOT on a rotisserie.

Below: The hard top from an Early Bronco is just downright heavy and hard to move around, much less working on it’s underneath. Here I had placed the behemoth thing on my Low/tall jack stands to repair/prep/paint, but it wound up that I COULD NOT REACH THE CENTER OF THE TOP OF IT!

So, onto the rotisserie it went~ here it’s just being stored which is a benefit of it being on casters. I had just installed the insulation;)

Just having finished with the clear coat, but what is not shown was I was able to rotate the rotisserie in order to spray the center topside~ easypeasy!

Pictures indeed speak for themselves, but here I had just finished painting the day before~ just rolling it outside to admire my hard work.

Much earlier on, when I had fabricated the Rot (rotisserie for short), figured you’d figure that out by now;)
This was my ’68 CJ5, and boy was it a mess!

Gosh, my Rot was so squeaky clean and new looking then;)  One can imagine after having been through many cycles at the sandblasters wreaks havoc on the paint on it! I have to wrap the casters in plastic everytime it goes over there.

Below, probably in the more brainstorming department is connecting the Rot by fabricating adapters to fit the project at hand, but once done, it’s good to go~ in this case it would fit my next project which was the JP18 Jurassic park jeep(’92 Jeep yj)

However, storing a Rot when not in use can be a little challenge, but I had a left over square tubing to connect the two together, but I’ve long since lost that little square tubing! Where do “things” go!! lol

This is the ’68 back from Cy-fair coatings, I went ahead and let them coat it.

Here is my ’92 Jeep YJ, or the JP18 Jurassic park build, note the neat storage while not working on it;)

Here is the hood from the ’68 Jeep, most would probably say why bother? I wanted to be able to paint the entire hood top and bottom, like eveloping it in primer, paint and clear coat.

Resuling in a perfect paint job!

The ’72 Bronco frame, obviously hasn’t visited the blasters yet;)

Another project was my 1946 Ben Hur Civilian military trailer, in bad shape, also will/has visited the Cy-fair blasters! No way I could wire brush this!!

It’s all about the end product, start with a pristive clean base, body work, epoxy, paint, then clear coat if the project calls for it;)

Below~ and as a bonus, this cart that I have fabricated up at the same time as the Rot proved to be an essential part in the restoration process. I was going to say Business, but I’m not in business! lol

Well, for goodness sakes, no sooner I sit down to blog, it’s over and ready to publish!

I really enjoyed the fabrication of this Rot, fabrication is fun and challenging!! Thank you for hanging in there with me, I need to get a couple blogs out over the next couple days as I have plenty to write about! 😉

Yours Truly, Dne’ of CC&T;)