So heres a BBQ Q for ya

[Super Ry]

I found a Rotisserie in the store room a while back and decided to try it out. First chicken was AMAZING! Invited a few friends/fam over and put 2 chicken on. Came out a while later and the motor had got too hot and shut down. I let it cool and it started right up again although this time it sounds a little rough. I'd rather not trust it to rotisserie somin anymore as I had to finish off the chickens on the grill - no biggie but still.

I've searched for a smaller electric motor that would be much stronger than the puney one I have and had no luck. It needs to be fairly light and I already have figured I'd need to do some engineering of my own to get this to work. Any ideas on how to do it? Keep in mind I wanna spend less than 40 bucks and have a built in BBQ with brick countertops. An outlet is nearby and I'd like to have this rotisserie more industrial - say 1/6 or 1/8 HP :) Horbor Freight had a 1/3 HP motor that was 20lbs. and that id prolly be too much.

Engineering ideas???

[MatD]

Why not just hook the rotiserie shaft up to the motor on your table saw, that'll get it spinnin' :)

Mat

[Super Ry]

I do have an extra 1 1/2 HP 3 phase motor layen around... Hmmmm I wonder if I could covnice the wife we need a phase converter for the barbie :) :)

[deathwish2]

The thing you'll have trouble with isn't so much getting a motor . . . but rigging it in a fashion that would reduce the speed down to under 5 RPM . . . a chicken at even a slow motor's speed (1750 RPM) would blow out 'yer fiyah'.

The reason those rotisseree gadgets make that whirring noise is the reduction gearing they use along with the little flywheel (which is why it's slows to a stop when you cut the power).

--Mark

When it comes to
woodworking and buying
tools, I always think back to
my grandfathers advice on
golf . . . "it's not the arrows,
it's the indian.''

[jimpen]

Well now......

If you have an old car hanging around.....

Take it and drive it up on an embankment and then cut the back half of the car off, but you have to leave the driveshaft. Put a couple of cinder blocks to hold up the back end. On the end of your driveshaft take the cars wipers and connect them to the driveshaft with the handyman's secret weapon.

Put your grill underneath the wipers. Stick the chicken onto the wipers. Fire up the grill. Start the car and put it in gear. Probably in low, and that chicken should turn just nicely.

But if you plan on doing two chickens at a time then you need a posi-rear. Lift the back end of the car up, take the tires off and mount wiper blades on both wheels, and maybe the car antenna to get a positive grip on the chicken. Put a grill under each side.

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Sorry for the above attack of insanity. Its been a looonnggg day. :)

[Mark F]

I saw one on grillparts.com for around $40.

[Super Ry]

I found some replacement motors for BBQ rotisseries (http://grillparts.com/accessories/de...e+Items&brand=), but the one I had started working again. Just seemed a bit underpowered

I was more interested in tryign to find away to gear down a more powerful motor. I found this http://www.electricmotorwarehouse.co...erie_motor.htm but seemed WAY outta my price.

I'll prolly have to look around in town and see what I can find by way of gear motors.

[deathwish2]

>I was more interested in tryign to find away to gear down a
>more powerful motor. I found this
>http://www.electricmotorwarehouse.co...erie_motor.htm
>but seemed WAY outta my price.

That looks to be the kind of thing that would go in a rotiseree at Boston Market or the local grocer's deli . . . you know, when you need to turn about 50 fowl. You need torquey but slow . . . . like say a windshield wiper motor }>

--Mark

When it comes to
woodworking and buying
tools, I always think back to
my grandfathers advice on
golf . . . "it's not the arrows,
it's the indian.''

[DustyBob]

It's been many years since I made one and that was on a large scale (Roasting whole hogs). Used a jet engine shipping can for the firebox and mounted it on a trailer. Looked real cool driving down the freeway with smoke billowing out the stack! :D I used a heavy duty sewing machine motor and replaced the foot switch with a reostat. Got out the calculator to compute the pully size and it worked real well. Lots of torque to turn a 250 lb. pig! I'm sure you don't need anything that large but the idea is still valid.

[Sonny Edmonds]

You need a feeder for the TS.
Then you put a wheel on the rotisererery shaft.
Now you set up the feeder so's it can drive the wheel on the rotisererery.
When the chickens done, mount the feeder back on the TS until the next Bar-B.

That or use a cordless variable speed drill, set to your prefered speed. :7

:D

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