AT+ Lift Series
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Do you want a light weight (1/8" wall tubing) auto rotisserie like another twirler?
It's here, cheaper and better.
Nice long 15" attachment arms that will securely hold your car body. They give you lots of working room and you don't need a special $99 kit to do truck cabs |
Competition is afraid to put a 700 lb Camaro on their 15" attachment arms up front, so they shorten them to 6" so you have no working room at the firewall. |
Our base leg is 30" long, not 24" like the competition's red one here. |
This causes the end units to be nose heavy, which puts all the weight on the front 600 lb. caster, over loading it. The rear casters are off the ground here. |
Our base bolts to the axle so you only need 10" of wall space to store it |
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Here is our heavy duty 900 lb caster on the left, compared with the competition's 600 lb version. |
We put brakes on the 4 corner casters so your Bottoms Up Lift won't move when you're sanding on the car body. |
Note our balancer terminates on the pivot pipe so you can rotate while adjusting for balance. You also have 18" of up/down adjustment with the balancer in minute increments to exactly balance the car. Our clamp plate system will hold 5000 lbs at each end. |
The competition's balancer terminates on the outer pipe, so you have to back the treads out to rotate the car to check the balance. There is only 12" of up/down adjustment in their T-Bar vs. 18" in ours, and it's in 3" jumps which could leave you pushing with 125 lbs of force to rotate that 3000 car. |
How is ours like the competitions?
- 3000 lbs. capacity (if you shorten the arms that hold the car and double bolt at all corners of the car frame) like the other twirler (their demo has the normal 15" arms cut to 6")
- 2 jacks for adjustable height (adjustable height versions)
- Standard on the adjustable height units, optional on the standard and fixed versions: 2 balancer tools (that actually let you rotate and test the balance while adjusting, unlike the other mfg)
- 6 - 5" caster (phenolic) for rolling on a hard surface (but ours are 900 lbs. capacity, not 600 lbs. and we have brakes on all 4 corners) for hard caster version.
- 4 attachment arms to attach to full frame bodies or frames (unibodies might need a bracket set or two - we have them for $30 a pair)
- 3 center connecting bars 72" long of 1/8" wall tubing.
Why is ours a Plus model?
- Our attachment arms and the T-Bar that they slide on are made of 3/16" wall tubing, not 1/8" wall tubing, for added strength and the jam bolts won't dent the tubing. -T-Bar Dent
- Our adjustment system to balance the car allows 18" of vertical adjustment in .001" increments if you need it, to exactly balance your car body. The competition only gives you 3" jumps with only 12" of travel. If you had a 3000 lbs. car and centering was 1.5" off, you would need 128 lbs. of push on the rocker panel to rotate the car.
- Our center support with the 3rd caster is 6" longer, so it is longer that the arms that attach to the body. This prevents the ends from wanting to fall on their nose toward the car, as with the competition's unit. This also means our system has 15.5 ft. between the bolt holes center bar block 186.jpg on the attachment arms (15" long). The competition can only handle 14.5 ft (short unibody car). Our 1500 system has a 5 piece center bar system that will handle 20 ft.
- Our upright post is bolted to the base frame so when you are not using it, you can store the system in 10" of wall space.
What don't we have that the competition does?
- No gussets on the axle - The car body is balanced right over the upright post, so side to side gusseting does nothing but try to confuse the buyer. If gussets were needed, they would be on the front, not the axles.
- No 1" bolt through the T-Bar to hold it in place - Our clamp plate system can easily hold 5000 lbs. on each end without hurting our 3/16" wall T-Bar or the ½' bolts clamping it, and still have 100% safety margin.
- 69" wide axle (ours if 53") - again, the car is balanced over the upright post, so the extra wide stance only gets in your way when working on the car.
These prices are for unpainted systems. Powdercoat is available for $250-300 per system.
This device is built in response to a competitor who began making a light weight (1/8" wall tubing) "twirler" in 2003 and selling it at about the same price as our much heavier 3/16 wall tubing Bottoms Up Lift. We were shipping 1/3 more weigh than they were, but for about the same price. We still make our heavier units, but we are removing the price umbrella that we afforded by allowing you to buy comparable equipment at a good price.
We are just starting our 20th year of making auto rotisseries and have tried to be honest with our claims for our equipment. Weigh capacity numbers get thrown around by some without defining what they mean or how you must attach your car to depend on those numbers. Our 1500 lbs. Bottoms Up Lift has always been stronger than our competitors "3000 lbs." rotisserie. It depends on how and where you attach the car to get your numbers. For 3000 lbs. capacity to be achieved with this unit, you must shorten the attachment arms like you see on their demo and double bolt at all four corners of the vehicle. Without this, you will overstress the system and damage your car.
We have always rated our systems with the weight resting on the end of the attachment arms, not double bolted (to prevent the connection from pivoting) to arms that are cut short to achieve an inflated weight rating.
