Have read topic about using rotisserie motors for drying motors. Question is what does one use as a rod chuck for the rod? A co-worker gave me a new motor never out of the box and I see that it has a square stock.Thanks for all replies in advance.

<<<<DON AT HOBBY RODS>>>>

I use a rotisserie motor and bought a 1/4" (thickness) square piece of bar stock from a hardware store (only need a couple inches), epoxied it into a hole drilled partway thru a piece of wood I cut and bandsawed in roughly round shape. Then I drilled a hole into the other face large enough to epoxy in a round rubber chair leg cover (the kind you push over the chair leg to not mar your wooden or linoleum floors). I then found some flexible packing foam and wrap it around the base of the rod, insert into the chair leg cover, squeeze the outside of the chair leg cover tight with a hose clamp. This is inserted into the rotiserrie motor which then turns the whole assembly. In order to keep it from falling out over time, you might mount some rubber bands or run it slightly "uphill". I haven't had one fall out yet.

I found a nail set that fit snuggly into the square drive, wrapped masking tape around the nail set and fiction fit the rod onto the nail set. This does require leaving the but cap off of the base of the rod until last.

Chris

Chris Richer
Iroquois ON

In my earlier years I too used a rotisserie motor and found mine to take a 2" extension from my socket set fit tightly and I just glued a 2" PVC end cap to that and some foam insulation for butt ends and drilled and tapped three screws at 120 degrees around the end cap for smaller stock.

Dan Craft
Dan Craft Enterprises

I finishing up one of these, right now. Barbeque rotisserie from the local home improvement store $22. Runs at about 4rpm. Cut the square rod down to three inches. Small cap head set screw to keep the square rod in place. I also used the 2in PVC pipe cap and three cap head screws as a chuck. All of this mounted onto 1in wood with base. Works great.

Added the reply to the wrong person.

- Sam



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Nick,
Would you posting a photo of your new dryer?

- Sam

- Sam

Sam. Sure thing. But, I'll want to pretty it up a bit first. Maybe the end of the week.

You can do a "dryer" search on fishingphotos.net and see several different set ups.

A good hardware store will have an assortment of square head set screws. Get the longest one that fits and epoxy it to the motor. A couple of nuts and a pvc pipe cap and three nylon screws complete the hardware list. I have made several of these and they work great for drying at about 4 rpm.

I've put two pictures of my contraption in the "Equipment and Tools" portion of the picture section. Search for the word "dryer"