Back on with welding the Rotisserie, just the feet & chassis leg forks to weld. We used 2 coach stands (big yellow stands that the car was on earlier in the project) and a white plastic sheet so people visiting / working in and around the garage did not get Arc Eye (i believe its called) / protecting peoples eyes from the bright welding light if anyone wanted to know what that was there. We had to make due with the small Mig welder with 0.8 wire i believe. there was another Mig welder that was 3 times the size but it had 0.6 wire. Anyway following are the pictures. They say "picture paints a thousand words" hopefully these will just save me explaining everything we did.
Oh and by the way i was doing the majority of the welding as i picked of the knack of it really quicking, impressed even if i say so myself.
The front chassis leg forks welded.
And the sparks fly!!!
It burns!!!
Testing the front chassis leg forks.
Fits like a glove.
What it will rougly look like.
All we needed to do was thread through M12 bolts for the feet so the Rotisserie could be flat packed. we tried drilling like a 7+mm hole through 4mm ish steel box section and that didnt work so we tried 5mm HSS-R drill bit but it was blunt. so bought a new 4.5mm HSS-R Bosch bit from Screwfix not B&Q because they are really expensive because i checked (Screwfix are owned by B&Q aswell so its abit odd for Screwfix to be cheaper) for £1.69 that did a few holes until we put to much pressure on it and it snapped and half of it dug into my leg. Dont worry it was only a puncture on the leg. so tried the blunt 5mm HSS-R bit and we snapped that bloody thing too. Argghh!!!
Mad Dash to Screwfix bought a 5mm HSS-R for £1.69 aswell and finished the holes then widenened them with the 7+mm drill bit.
Just need to widen it again with a bit for the M12 Bolts and we are done.
And all this FAF without a pillar drill.
And the end of the day.
