Folding grill with his own hands

Cooking high-quality kebabs is impossible without special devices, made in the form of a brazier and called charcoal in the people. Barbecue grills are particularly popular with meat lovers, as they are easily dismantled and can be transported unassembled in the trunk of a car. In this article we will consider how to make a collapsible grill with your own hands.

In the manufacture of collapsible barbecue you will need to consider the following requirements for products of this kind:

• compactness, so that it can be moved from place to place;
• ease of manufacture, that is, the ability to dispense with the assembly without expensive molding and cutting equipment;
• the universality allowing to use a brazier in marching conditions;
• reliability in relation to fire safety.

Instruments

For the manufacture of mangal required a standard set of working tools, always available to any economic man. This set should include the following items:

• electric jigsaw with metal blades;
• "Bulgarian" with a set of disks (cutting wheels);
• powerful shears for metal;
• electric drill with a set of drills;
• welding machine of any type;
• measuring and marking tools;
• set of threaded dies.

Sizes and set of brazier

When choosing the dimensions of a future device, its characteristics are usually taken into account, such as the maximum number of skewers that you plan to place at the same time, as well as the size of the trunk of your car.

Its width is chosen, as a rule, taking into account the size of the skewers at your disposal. As for the height of the roaster, it should be selected on the basis of the possibility of obtaining a temperature sufficient for roasting meat (usually this value is selected in the range of 150-160 mm).

As an example, consider a typical grill with the following parameters:

• width - 350 mm (under a skewer 400 mm long);
• length - 650 mm based on the use of 6 skewers;
• the height of the walls of the brazier - 150 mm (including the grate 20 mm);
• The length of each of the 4 legs is 600 mm.

The composition of the barbecue should include the following elements:

1. Frame from the corners with fixing tubes.
2. Legs - 4 pieces.
3. The bottom of the steel sheet.
4. Two longitudinal sides.
5. Side walls.
6. A grinder

In addition, to assemble the structure, you will need standard fasteners, such as bolts, nuts and washers (simple and engraving).

Preparatory operations

First of all, a stand is prepared in the form of a frame, on which the brazier's frame and its legs will later be fastened. It is made from billets of a steel corner of a certain size, which (after cutting them to the size of the barbecue) are welded into a rectangular structure - the frame, which is the basis of the future barbecue.

Then, along the inner edge of the corner (along the edges of the frame), pipe sections with a diameter of about 17 mm are welded, used as supports for the barbecue legs. For the manufacture of the legs themselves, you can use billets with a diameter of about 20 mm. The bottom of the brazier is made of rectangular steel sheet with a thickness of 3 mm, in which holes are drilled using an electric drill, ensuring air circulation in the heating zone.

For the manufacture of the sides should use sheet metal with a wall thickness of 1.5 to 2 mm. After marking the side blanks to the size of the base and cutting them with a grinder, you can proceed to the preparation of the seats. For this purpose, holes are prepared at the points of their attachment to the base, as well as in those places where the side walls are connected to one another.

Work on the production of grate is easiest to organize using a welding machine. To do this, you will need to prepare not very thick reinforcing bars and cut them with a grinder to the size of the grate bottom. To obtain the bottom of the grate, these rods are simply welded in a grid.

Assembly stages

Consider the general procedure for assembling collapsible barbecue:

1. First of all, the previously prepared frame is connected with bolts of the appropriate size with the base. To obtain a reliable connection when installing bolts, it is desirable to use an engraver washer.
2. After that, on the basis of the brazier, it will be possible to mount the legs. For their arrangement, previously prepared pipe supports with a diameter of 17 mm are “worn” in sections of a larger diameter pipe.
3. Then we attach the sides and fasten them to the base and to each other using the same bolted joints.
4. To increase the strength of the structure obtained, it is recommended to additionally fasten the walls with longitudinal spokes, which are then tightened with lamb nuts.
5. In the end, you will only have to lay a ready grate on the bottom of the structure.

Now you can safely gather with friends on nature, taking with them the dismantled construction of the barbecue, a couple of kilograms of pickled meat and charcoal. If you made a grill in another way, share your experience with our readers, leaving comments on the article.

Video

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