Fuselage Rotisserie Update

[alaskabearhawk]

I made a modification to my fuselage rotisserie to make the rotation infinitely adjustable. Here's the YouTube link to the change I made: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUiwWzGxt18

[Enewton57]

Excellent rotisserie - Thanks for sharing.

[DesertBearhawk]

That is awesome! Do you have drawings of the entire assembly? I think that at some point I am ging to need one of those!

[alaskabearhawk]

No, but it shouldn't be hard to make...you certainly have the skills! There are three other videos I made that defines the evolution of the design. Copy those and you will come close for sure. Don't forget Mark Moyle did a video of his rotisserie too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozV9k9jGb9g

[Mark Moyle]

Thanks for the plug.....link didn't work in Taptalk HD. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

[svyolo]

My rotisserie is getting a pretty good workout the last few weeks. There is one thing that I got pretty close on and that is the location of the pivots.

My forward pivot is exactly in line with the two upper engine mounting bolts. Not the top one in the middle, but the next two on the left and right sides. On my B model fuselage, the rear pivot is 9" above the end of the tube for the tail wheel stinger. 7" up from the bottom of the tail post.

Right not I am a little bit bottom heavy. With about 15lbs of force on a tube I can rotate it 90 degrees. Very easy to do.

Just a guess, but I would say raising the pivot on the tail post 1" would probably be slightly better. Call it 8" from the bottom of the tail post.

[svyolo]

I got that backwards. Subtract an inch. 6" from the bottom of the tail post.