[Tigers] The real reasons I wanted to post

[Tom Parker]

Ron,

The Alpine / Tiger jack will lift a wheel off the ground with the engine in
the car. (I have more faith in the mounts than the jack...)

It's over. The car spent 6 months on and off the rotisserie and body cart
during the rebuild. No engine or rear end, just the body shell. Same mounts.
No problems. If the jack is part of the same frame assembly as the cross
member it should be close to being as strong. The bolt is far from small,
1/2" UNF. Besides, how does one attach the rear; you need both to flip the
car.

I hesitate to disagree with someone who probably knows more than I do, so
I'll leave it this way: it worked for me. No guarantees that it'll work for
anyone else.

Tom

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Ron Fraser <rfraser at bluefrog.com> wrote:

>        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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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