hillkwaj Posted April 26, 2009 Report Share Posted April 26, 2009 So Dennis, love my side tables but it's a pain to have to take the bracket off to allow the roti bracket to be mounted. Any thought to modifying the bracket design so that the roti bracket can remain mounted? It would be great to just be able to drop the table down and perhaps remove the teak and then just slip the motor on - even easier would be to just incorporate the motor mount into the side table bracket itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DennisLinkletter Posted April 26, 2009 Report Share Posted April 26, 2009 Just set the bracket on top of the side table bracket like t Yes, it's do-able... Just set the bracket on top of the side table bracket like this.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillkwaj Posted April 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2009 Dennis- Thanks. That had been my initial thought and I spent over an hour yesterday trying to get it to work. My biggest problem is that because the holes in the roti bracket are so much larger than the standoffs on the rear mounting studs the roti bracket tends to slip over the standoffs and so the roti bracket just rattles around behind the side table bracket and never gets tight. Based on your assurance that it works, I went and tried again today and managed to get it on by keeping downward pressure on the roti bracket as I tightened to force it's to just catch on the standoffs - it's tight but seems precarious since if the rote bracket moves at all it'll slip over the standoff again. I think I just need to replace the standoff with something larger diameter (stack of washers?). Thanks, Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amphoran Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 After many hours of feeling very, very studip as I tried, tried and tried again to mount the side table bracket and the roti bracket together, I finally realized that Dennis uses language differently than me. "On top of" the table bracket in his post above means "inside the table bracket" to me. All dependant on point of view. I agree completely with Hillkwaj that the standoffs should be larger in diameter, and will add that they should also be of different lengths, and have one end cut off at a slant, because the bolts are not parallel to one another. I thought about Hillkwaj's suggestion of a stack of washers, and then had a flash - stainless steel LOCK WASHERS. 3/8" ss lockwashers, to be precise. The beauty of lockwashers is that they're thicker on one side than on the other, and a stack of them (properly aligned) will maintain that thickness difference. The upper post needed two lockwashers (on top of the big washer that came with the KK), and the lower one needed 3 (it is a bit longer than the upper post due to the kk's curves). Everything mounted up tight, the roti bracket is secure, and the big motor fits in very nicely. At my local Ace Hdw, the 3/8" stainless lockwashers were eighteen cents apiece. Made the job go quickly and easily, once I figured out how many were needed. Cheers, Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillkwaj Posted May 1, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2009 Mike- The lock washers looks like a nice solution. Using just the stock standoffs my bracket did indeed slip over the standoff during operation the first time I used it. I ended up just replacing the standoffs with flat washers. Seems solid although I agree that you've probably got better alignment using the lock washers. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DennisLinkletter Posted May 1, 2009 Report Share Posted May 1, 2009 Thanks guys... I'll have the factory make up something slanted... I should maybe build the bracket into each table... Thanks for the feedback... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amphoran Posted May 1, 2009 Report Share Posted May 1, 2009 Dennis, If you had some thick-walled 16-17mm tube, it could be cut on the bias with a bandsaw and would work great. Once I got the diameter and lengths right, it was easy to mount them both. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flyboy Posted May 10, 2009 Report Share Posted May 10, 2009 I've played with this for some time and the issue I have is that 2 of the 3 bolts coming out of the side of the KK seem to be too short to allow getting the acorn nut on all of them. One is longer than the other two which are so short that when I put the side table bracket on, the lower bolt doesn't go thru the bracket at all, ie no way to get the acorn nut on it at all...Seems like making the side table bracket and the rotisserie bracket one piece and then making the bracket curved to match the curve of the KK vice straight might help a ton... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DennisLinkletter Posted May 10, 2009 Report Share Posted May 10, 2009 I've played with this for some time and the issue I have is that 2 of the 3 bolts coming out of the side of the KK seem to be too short to allow getting the acorn nut on all of them. One is longer than the other two which are so short that when I put the side table bracket on' date=' the lower bolt doesn't go thru the bracket at all, ie no way to get the acorn nut on it at all...Seems like making the side table bracket and the rotisserie bracket one piece and then making the bracket curved to match the curve of the KK vice straight might help a ton...[/quote'] I'll get you out some acorn nuts with a threaded extension and will also make them standard with all side tables. Bending that big thick bracket face in the OTB form would require a very large press.. That may be possible when production volumes grow a bit. I think I could just weld a standard motor bracket to the inside of the bracket as a cure. It could also be J&B Welded to the bracket as an after sales MacGyver solution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flyboy Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 Thanks Dennis...I'm confident it will work out...After my first cook I'm even more impressed with the KK... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
