He Built His Own Car "Rotisserie"

He Built His Own Car "Rotisserie" FARM SHOP Tools 34-2-38 "I built it by borrowing the best ideas I could find in catalogs and on the internet. My total cost was about $300, which is only about 1/4 as much as commercial models sell for," says Tim Hays, Oreana, Ill., about his home-built, portable car "rotisserie". It lets him rotate a car body 360 degrees so it's easier to work on. The unit mounts on six 4-in. caster wheels and is equipped with a pair of telescoping steel rails supported by a 3-pt. stand at each end. Tim places the car body on rails and fastens it in place. After that he can easily rotate the car body to either a 45 or 90 degree angle, and then insert a pin to hold the car where he wants it. When he's done working on the car, he can roll the entire unit off to the side and work on something else. "It makes the car much more accessible and eliminates the need to crawl under the vehicle," says Hays. "It allows me to securely bring the car to the desired height, then rotate it to the best angle for whatever I need to do to the car. I use a æpivot bar' on one of the 3-pt. stands to rotate the car. It's so well balanced that even my 9-year-old daughter can easily turn it over with one hand." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Tim Hays, 512 N. East St., Oreana, Ill. (ph 217 468-2530; tklh2000@cebridge.net).

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