DennisLinkletter Posted July 23, 2016 Report Posted July 23, 2016 Solid Hex/Square Roti Motor Shafts in stock again http://komodokamado.com/products/solid-roti-motor-shaft
CeramicChef Posted July 23, 2016 Report Posted July 23, 2016 Dennis, I'll be call in the next few days to get an entirely new set of the roti shaft. you never cease to amaze me at how responsive you are to your customers and how imaginative you are at solving problems.
Stile88 Posted July 24, 2016 Report Posted July 24, 2016 29 minutes ago, bernux said: I don't understand what is it for...... This is the solid roti motor shaft to be used with the adjustable motor bracket on grills that have the hexagon drive socketin their grill's side accessory plates. thats what it is for if if have that kind of motor 1
bernux Posted July 24, 2016 Report Posted July 24, 2016 This is the solid roti motor shaft to be used with the adjustable motor bracket on grills that have the hexagon drive socketin their grill's side accessory plates. thats what it is for if if have that kind of motor Thanks
Gnomatic Posted July 30, 2016 Report Posted July 30, 2016 Will this work for those of us that have grills with square roti sockets?
KevinD Posted July 30, 2016 Report Posted July 30, 2016 (edited) Yes, one end is the hex side the other square... Dennis provided a picture of it so if you look at earlier posts in this topic you can see it... Edited July 30, 2016 by KevinD
Gnomatic Posted November 15, 2016 Report Posted November 15, 2016 @DennisLinkletter or anyone else: I just got the square/hex roti shaft. Is it still recommended to use the Flexbar 15015 thread locker with this to avoid the basket unscrewing itself or can I just skip the Flexbar stuff now?
DennisLinkletter Posted November 15, 2016 Author Report Posted November 15, 2016 I have no experience with this because my motor from OneGrill.com spins clockwise and tightens the right side cradle drive shaft into the cradle.
Gnomatic Posted November 15, 2016 Report Posted November 15, 2016 @DennisLinkletter I can reverse the motor if needed. I'll try the new shaft and see what happens. With the shafts that came with my cradle, one side would eventually unscrew itself, or the other depending which direction I had the motor spinning. Hopefully the shaft helps. You recommended the Flexbar stuff to me a while back but I haven't tried the roti cradle since. Now I have the new shaft. I'm hoping to roti a Turkey for Thanksgiving and will try to do a couple test runs before next Thursday.
tony b Posted November 15, 2016 Report Posted November 15, 2016 Definitely do some cold test runs (use a 5# bag of potatoes), spin at least 15 minutes to check to see if everything stays tight. You might still need the Flexbar (or blue Loctite). As you've noted, reversing the motor spin isn't the panacea for this problem. It generally takes 2 or 3 different fixes to solve the whole problem. 1
Gnomatic Posted November 15, 2016 Report Posted November 15, 2016 I thought Red was the high heat Loctite version. Even so its only rated to 450F. That's probably fine though as I can't imagine doing a roti cook higher than that. The Flexbar stuff can handle much higher temps.
tony b Posted November 16, 2016 Report Posted November 16, 2016 The red is "permanent," and much more difficult to remove, so if you think that you'll want to shift the rotation points from top to center (or vice versa) at some point, you'll want blue Loctite. 1
ckreef Posted November 16, 2016 Report Posted November 16, 2016 Why not just keep them at center? OneGrill 4pm05 is rated for something around 50 lbs uncentered. Are you planning on spinning something that heavy?
DocRock Posted November 16, 2016 Report Posted November 16, 2016 Guys, First post here so bear with me. I received my 32" BB in late summer and had so much fun just grilling that I'm just getting around to getting the roti set up. When I finally opened it up I noticed that I clearly need the square/hex roti shaft to go from my motor to the hex nut on the outside (it doesn't appear that the hex nut goes all the way from outside to inside) but then I also need a hex/thread drive shaft to get to the cradle itself to actually turn it. The photo shows everything that came with my "16 kit" (with the exception of the "L key"). Clearly, I'm missing some pieces. It looks like I only have the rotating shaft at the end but no way to actually drive the cradle! Any help (and overnight shipments of parts so I can do a rotisserie turkey for a work outing by the weekend...) would be greatly appreciated.
tinyfish Posted November 16, 2016 Report Posted November 16, 2016 (edited) If thats all you have you are missing some pieces. Do you have the three bigger screws that attach the motor bracket to the KK and you need one fitting for the other side of the cradle and the fitting from the roti motor to the KK. Did you check in your box with the extra KK parts? Edited November 16, 2016 by tinyfish
Gnomatic Posted November 17, 2016 Report Posted November 17, 2016 Ok, I need some assistance setting this up. My grill is a 23" and I have the square socket. The fist pic is my roti motor with the adjustable shaft and spring.(is the spring supposed to go over the threaded end of this shaft before inserting into the socket on the motor?) The new square/hex roti shaft is lower in the photo. I'm trying to figure out where it goes. Do I just replace the adjustable shaft and spring with the new square/hex roti shaft? If so do I keep the spring? The second photo below is my cradle setup, with the round shaft screwed into the left side, and the square shaft screwed into the right side. I'm pretty sure square/hex shaft is meant for the outside of the grill with the motor, but I left it in the pic. The thing is, if the new shaft goes where I think it does, it will prevent the outside motor shaft from unscrewing itself, which is an improvement. However, depending on what way the motor spins, the right side or left side shaft sill has great potential to unscrew itself. This is where my problems with my cradle arose. I guess Loctite/Flexbar is the only solution for the inside shafts?
tinyfish Posted November 18, 2016 Report Posted November 18, 2016 @Gnomatic My KK came with the adjustable shaft. I played around with the spring and cutting it in half to give me the right fit with some spring to it when the shaft is Inserted in the motor. The Onegrill motor is reversible. I can't remember how I did mine but I did it with the guy from Onegrill on the phone with me. It is very very simple. @tony b created a thread on how its done here it is thanks Tony b
ckreef Posted November 18, 2016 Report Posted November 18, 2016 (edited) @Gnomatic if you have the newer adjustable motor bracket (I assume you do) then the spring is really not necessary. I've never used my spring. The spring is a carry over from the older non adjustable motor bracket which helped facilitate inserting the motor shaft when you couldn't adjust the bracket. It is really irrelevant which way the motor spins. If it spins clockwise one side of the inner shafts wants to loosen. If you change the direction of the motor then the opposite inner shaft wants to loosen. The only way for you to solve this dilemma is to figure out which inner shaft wants to loosen (for the way your motor spins) and use blue loc-tite/flexbar on that inner shaft. Edited November 18, 2016 by ckreef 1
Gnomatic Posted November 18, 2016 Report Posted November 18, 2016 Thanks for the clarification, guys. Need to have my ducks in a row shall we say before I spin the bird next week.
