[TR] Roll over Spit/Rotisserie for a TR4A

[Dixie4]

Andrew many thanks for your reply. A great suggestion and if I was Stateside 
it would certainly be worth following up. Being in UK though is a little too 
far from Ohio.
Thanks again for taking the trouble to reply.

Adrian
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Uprichard" <auprichard at uprichard.net>
To: "'Dixie4'" <dixie4.wales at virgin.net>; <triumphs at autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 2:18 AM
Subject: RE: [TR] Roll over Spit/Rotisserie for a TR4A


> Last year I bought some panels from Joe Richards in Ohio.  He had a
> rotisserie he had used on TS1 and was looking to sell it.  Don't know if 
> it
> would work for a TR4 or if it even still available, but you may want to 
> ask
> him.
>
> Andrew Uprichard
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net
> [mailto:triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Dixie4
> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 8:53 PM
> To: triumphs at autox.team.net
> Subject: [TR] Roll over Spit/Rotisserie for a TR4A
>
> A good few years ago I stripped my TR4A solid axle type car down to a
> rolling shell and started a bare metal restoration. As many must know,
> business and other outside factors get in the way of a restoration so work
> ground to a halt back in 2003.
> Now ten years have passed and with my business sold I have to start up the
> restoration once again.
> Of course I am now ten years older and a sufferer of myeloma. My mobility 
> is
> not as good as it should be. So, I thought to myself, I have to devise
> something to make the restoration easier. That is when I thought of a
> spit/rotisserie.
>
> Has anyone on the list ever devised a roll over spit/rotisserie that can
> swing a stripped out TR through 360 degrees?
>
> If they have, do they have assembly plans to share? Even a pencil sketch 
> and
> approx sizes would do.
>
> On the Internet I can find ready made ones for sale for other British 
> cars.
> Honestly they look very flimsy and are only for mono body shells without a
> separate chassis. I am sure the centre of gravity would be entirely
> different and the TR much heavier. However, buying one ready made would 
> take
> out the fun and lighten my pocket somewhat, which is even less fun. I am
> fully committed to designing and making one from scratch. As it will be 
> used
> only once it must be as cost effective as possible by using recycled steel
> box section and round tube.
>
> Even if no one on the list has actually constructed one I would like to 
> hear
> any views and opinions on the idea and any suggestions as to what features
> should be included.
>
> Adrian
> 1966 TR4A CT64306 O
> Wales UK
>
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