[Tigers] The real reasons I wanted to post

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The bumper bolts are a very dangerous way to hang these cars. Weld up a square tube front and rear subframe to carry the load. In the front I used the front four suspension bolts to hook up, and in the rear used the front and rear spring mounting. 
These areas carry the load normally, and it worked a treat for me. 

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----- Reply message -----
From: " Ron Fraser" <rfraser at bluefrog.com>
Date: Wed, Jun 30, 2010 20:59
Subject: [Tigers] The real reasons I wanted to post
To: "'Tom Parker'" <tkparker1941 at gmail.com>, "'Al Fudge'" <allfudge1635 at gmail.com>
Cc: <tigers at autox.team.net>


	IMO, the jack holes and bumper bolts are a poor choose to mount the
rotisserie.  This is mostly folded sheet metal and a small bolt holding the
car; this could fail.   The crossmember bolts or the engine mounting bolt
area is much stronger in front and the leaf spring bolts for the rear.

	I did not have my Tiger on a rotisserie so I hope those who have
will confirm these statements.

Ron Fraser

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From: tigers-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:tigers-bounces at autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Tom Parker
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 8:15 PM
To: Al Fudge
Cc: tigers at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Tigers] The real reasons I wanted to post


Al,

I bead blasted mine. If I had it to do all over I think I'd have it dipped.
There were seams that weren't cleaned out enough. It may have been an
operator problem, but I suspect it's just the way bead blasting is.

I have an AutoTwirler rotisserie and I like it. We made custom Sunbeam
mounts that use the jack holes and bumper bolts. It worked really well
except when the body was finally straight they had to "adjust" the brackets.

Sadly the brackets are no more; they didn't make it back from the body shop.

Tom

Just for grins, where are you located? I'm in Georgia.


On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Al Fudge <allfudge1635 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a couple of questions for the community. I am 99.5% done with
> dissassembling my MK1.  It needs some rust repair and I am considering
> having the shell soda blasted.  Any comments on the relative merits of
> soda blasting over bead or sand blasting?  I want to strip the shell
> to bare metal so I can determine the extent of the required repairs,
> and there will be more than a few.
>
> Also, what about rotisseries?  I have looked at the Auto twirler, but
> are there any others to consider? I don't want to build one; I'd
> rather buy a complete one.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Al
> B9471635
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