My new build

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[Camel]

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[James270]

Nice build Camel, hopefully Lion Nathan don't take an active interest

[Camel]

Today was spent cleaning up some of the crappy welds, lots of grinding and building a divider to go at the half way mark along the bed, didn't get a photo of that one, but I will tomorrow. Gave the legs and braces, as well as the height adjuster/shaft holders a good coat of ColdGal for protection.

Thirdly, went out and grabbed the windscreen wiper motor from my mates place, as we have had nearly 4 inches of rain the the last week, this entailed wading through about a foot of water to get to the vehicle, then slopping around while undoing the 5 bolts holding it in, thank god I still have a good set of gum boots.
After getting home and dried out, I had to figure how to attach it to the stand without making everything too big and heavy, the easiest way I came up with was welding a couple of angle brackets onto the shaft support cross member, then bolting an upright on with a 6 inch length of 3/4 rhs sticking out towards the wheel. I then found a nice big washer, about 2 inches diameter with a 5/16th hole in it, I think it came off an old shock absorber, welded it onto the top of the end of the 6 inch length and bolted the motor onto it using one of the holes in the mounting plate.

Side on view.

Looking at the motor from along the charcoal bed.

Close up of how the shaft on the motor interacts with the big bicycle wheel, the weight of the motor which pivots on the be washer, keeps it in firm contact with the drive wheel. I can adjust the tightness of the bolt to make it either a light touch on the wheel, (might slip) or I can do the nut up a bit tighter and force it down onto the tyre, giving me a lot more traction. I had to add a 1" rubber foot to give me a bit more speed on the main shaft. When it was just the shaft of the motor, it was only doing about .9 of one rpm on high speed, low speed was around .6, with the rubber foot I am now getting 3 rpm, which if going by the results of the spit roast we had on last Saturday week, is perfect.

As you can see, I need to clean some red dust and dirt off the motor, and finish up welding the new attachments, then coldgal them and give the stands, braces and other bits a nice coat of paint. I was going the High Heat paint, but as it recommends curing at 300deg for an hour, I am going to give it a miss and paint one end red and the other green, easy for me to tell them apart and which bit goes on what end. Might have to get another tyre as this one is pretty perished.
Am going to make a heat shield that goes on the spit side of the motor to deflect the heat off the motor.

I ran it today using a direct hook up to a 12volt transformer that I used to have in the house to run our UHF radio base station. I think that when away from home, I will be able to run it using direct to the second battery in my ute, transformer plugged into the inverter that I have mounted behind the drivers seat, or plug the transformer into either of my generators if using them.

I guess that's all for today, Ill be doing more over the next while and should have it up and running properly by the end of the week.

Stand by

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[Camel]

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would sooner use my own resources.

[Camel]

Nice build Camel, hopefully Lion Nathan don't take an active interest

Just noticed this one Your Holiness, I am pretty sure if I can get absolution from your good self, that would suffice. Do we start a confession thread for the Missathon ? Besides which, isn't he in Sri Lanka playing cricket ?

[trevort]

Nice build Camel, hopefully Lion Nathan don't take an active interest

Just noticed this one Your Holiness, I am pretty sure if I can get absolution from your good self, that would suffice. Do we start a confession thread for the Missathon ? Besides which, isn't he in Sri Lanka playing cricket ?

no stupid, that Nathan Lyon

[Camel]

Been doing bits and pieces on this over the last couple of days, designed and made the adjustable height motor stand, got the legs and side rails painted along with the stand for the motor, cleaned the motor up and pulled the side cover off and gave it a good top-up of silicon grease.

I then started to make some utensils to use with the spit.

A charcoal rake was the first cab off the rank, made from a 2 ft length of 3/8th rod, that was originally a bolt that was through one of those big wooden cable reels, the cross bar was made from the stainless front axle that came with the push bike wheel, made the teeth from some 1/4 stainless rod out of an old stainless stove shelf.

Still needs some tidying up, a grind here and there and straighten the teeth a bit.

Next up, I decided that I needed a fork to use when carving meat of various carcasses.

Made out of some more of the 1/4 stainless that I cut from the stove shelf. (I have several and have cut plenty of 1/4 rod out of them) Bent the two outside bits and welded them together. The handle was made from a hexagonal piece of 3/8th stainless rod that was in amongst some stuff I acquired from somewhere

I then grabbed a chunk of dry mallee branch that I have had laying around for a few years

Squared up the ends and put it in my drill press vice and reamed a hole through the centre from end to end.

I made up a couple of end caps out of some of the off cuts of the end of the keg that was left over, centre drilled slipped them over the shaft and welded them in place to hold the handle, made up a ring out of some 1/8th stainless rod, again from the stove rack, to go on the end to hang it by. After it was fixed in place, I sanded it on a sanding disc to get rid of any lumps and bumps.

Gave the handle a coat of stain and then a couple of coats of oil, came up alright, but nothing flash.

More to follow

[Camel]

Nice build Camel, hopefully Lion Nathan don't take an active interest

Just noticed this one Your Holiness, I am pretty sure if I can get absolution from your good self, that would suffice. Do we start a confession thread for the Missathon ? Besides which, isn't he in Sri Lanka playing cricket ?

no stupid, that Nathan Lyon

OH No shit Sherlock.

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Was that the bit of wood you were going to bring down for my knife scales

[Camel]

A folding rack was the next thing on the agenda, something that you can lay pieces of chook, shanks, chops, snags, whatever on, and then have another rack hinged over the top and clamped together to hold everything while its going round and round.

Started off with a couple of the good old stove racks........again

There was a bent lug on two of the corners that hooked under the slides in the side of the stove to stop the racks tipping when slid most of the way out, I bent these so they came back onto the main rod, making an ideal place to put one of these on each corner,

Stainless rings off old dog collars

I then closed up the lugs over the rings and hit them with a spot of weld to make sure they don't come adrift. and ended up with a nice hinged arrangement that is loose enough for the two racks to be a couple of inches apart when closed.

Next up was the big How to make and fit some clips to hold the other two edges together ?

I decided to cut a couple of 50mm x1/4 rod, cut a thread on them, make a couple of small plates with holes in them and do them up with some wing nuts.

Cutting the thread

Finished studs

More in a minit

[Camel]

Studs and small plates welded in place, ready to get some 1/4 stainless wing nuts next time I am in Griffith, no one in town stock anything stainless

I ended up looking around for something to make a utensil rack for hanging these bits on, I found a part of the stove rack that had short lengths of the 1/8th rod welded onto one side, I cut a couple off, then cut one end off and bent them sideways and upwards to make the hooks. Then bent the ends at 90 degrees to the main rod, and sticking out the back of the hook rack. I got a couple of 5/16th nuts and welded them onto the end of the spit body, at the right spacing to take the ends sticking out the back, with the last 1/2 inch of the rod bent at about 45 degrees upwards, the ends are poked through the centre of the nuts and the weight of the tool rack and the tools on it, hold it in place, it can be easily taken out for transport.

I also made a spear point out of another piece of 1/4 rod that I fixed into the top end of the spear out of the keg for a handle, drilled a hole in the centre and welded it in place, then bent up a piece of the 1/8th rod as a hoop to hang it by. Dunno what it will be used for, but I guess poking holes in stuff to see if its cooked.

The tool rack with the bits made so far hanging on the end of the spit body

I have a dozen pieces of the 1/8th rod that was the small bars on the stove rack, am going to somehow make up some small skewers for those that like toasting marshmallows, or maybe even for making meat shiskababs.

I also have to try and find a couple of stainless nuts with a 20mm centre, or some heavy walled stainless tube, to make some holders to hold the grilling rack onto the main spit bar, Griffith list is growing all the time.

The empty hook will be used to hang the basting cup on that the Gnome has kindly donated a 30mm canon shell for.

That's it for today.

[Camel]

Was that the bit of wood you were going to bring down for my knife scales

No, I have another half a dozen that are cut from the same branch, I may be coerced into supplying you with one of them.

[Camel]

During this build, I have leaned lots about trying to weld small thin objects together, never done any stainless welding before, thankfully I was given a couple of dozen stainless welding rods. Big problems trying to weld thin stuff (1/8th rod and 1mm sheet) with 3.2mm rods. Dab, zzzt, dab, zzzt, dab, zzzt At least they are held together and wont fall apart, and the stainless welding comes up nice and clean. Might have to add some 2.5mm stainless rods to the Griffith list.