Engineering help needed

[Maddawg]

Why do you need the counter-weight at all??????

[Y33TREKker]

Just run a Google image search for "rotisserie" and "counterweight" and you'll surely find enough visual examples to figure out how you can utilize the pieces you have.

[Cobrajet]

What's the cross section dimension of the square shaft?

I was think'n something like this...in stainless, of course...

It's a standard 5/16" square rod. Your idea is ideal, however, I don't happen to have any of those in my junk box.

Kinda hard to tell if the "threaded weight" is supposed to attach to the bottom of the silver/chrome cylinder (with loop) or what.
Clamp sounds like a reasonable option
Obviously drilling/tapping with a stud is an option.
I'll also tell you that I've found (and used) a 2000-deg adhesive in the past. You could fill the cylinder if it's suppose to wrap around that square peg.
http://www.cotronics.com/vo/cotr/newprod.htm

The "threaded weight" is not a weight. but more of a threaded "stop" to be used with a screw-on handle found on many spits. My rod is not threaded, so I can't use that part. I do have a set of dies, but my rod end sits in a cradle, so attaching the counter weight to the end is not an option. It has to be inside the grill, close to the bird. I do need some kind of clamping hardware, but what and where. I have some ideas I will try to post later.

Why do you need the counter-weight at all??????

Turkeys are very hard to balance, and also tend to move around during cooking. My last two attempts have resulted in stripped gears and/or failed motors leading to brurnt turkey! Not good.

Just run a Google image search for "rotisserie" and "counterweight" and you'll surely find enough visual examples to figure out how you can utilize the pieces you have.

I did that and found no one using this style counterweight without the screw-on handle mount. I need to improvise.

[Ldub]

It's a standard 5/16" square rod. Your idea is ideal, however, I don't happen to have any of those in my junk box.

Way'll thay'n...I reckon you otter use you a couple of thay'm thar small vice griyups... Ummmmm-Hmmmmmm...

Clamped to your shaft, opposing each other's weight. Yessir...

They'll do in a pinch...

Maybe even small C clamps...or hose clamps..or wrap some wire...but no duct tape...

[tom4bren]

Way'll thay'n...I reckon you otter use you a couple of thay'm thar small vice griyups... Ummmmm-Hmmmmmm...

Clamped to your shaft, opposing each other's weight. Yessir...

They'll do in a pinch...

Maybe even small C clamps...or hose clamps..or wrap some wire...but no duct tape...

ROFL

At the end of last summer, the blade engage cable on my riding mower snapped. To finish the lawn, I pulled the cable through the running board & secured it with a pair of vice grips. They are still there today!!!

Cobra - can't see your pix whilst at work (so I can't recommend anything) but I'd be happy to help you modify the counterweight with whatever design you come up with.

[Triathlete]

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Clamped to your shaft

Ouch! Sounds painful.

[Cobrajet]

Here are a couple of my ideas. Actually, either one will work. I'm leaning towards the second one, since it is smaller, simple, and more stable on "my shaft."

Still open to ideas, but this may give you some idea what I am trying to accomplish. I'm sure Tom will come up with some ingenious device that will revolutionize rotisserie grilling as we know it.

[tom4bren]

Still open to ideas, but this may give you some idea what I am trying to accomplish. I'm sure Tom will come up with some ingenious device that will revolutionize rotisserie grilling as we know it.

Actually, I was thinking about developing a PTO from the VX that could provide the input to a hydraulic pump which in turn would feed the venturi of the drive mechanism of a stator mounted rotational effector within the ether containment enclosure of said convection coloric dispersement device.

[89Vette]

Here are a couple of my ideas. Actually, either one will work. I'm leaning towards the second one, since it is smaller, simple, and more stable on "my shaft."

Wow! All these BIG exotic words and the obvious, most important point was already thrown out there.

Getting something stable on your shaft is always VERY important. LDub's new status shows he feels the same way!