Yard stuff...BBQ
Over time we all collect things from assorted sources for some future project.
Picked up some rear brake drums for Fire trucks, they were in the dumpster so price was right.
Some time passes and we manage to find a hub for same, same place, same price.
At the scrap yard was a pile of public park BBQ units, most were very bad, removed with tractor or ??? And or badly bent and or rusted.
Found one with support pipe attached but bottom rusted almost all the way just in the middle.
We did need to buy the nuts, one was SAE, the other, Metric.
So we cut up some scrap 1/8 plate to replace the bottom, in center it is 2 layers thick as the plate was 8 inches and we needed 16, so 2 strips with a third over the seam.
The support pipe was bonded to the tube on the bottom.
Cut it off just below, put in lathe with a boring bar and got it cleaned out, at one point it came out.
Needed to make an adaptor to hold the support in the hub, that was another post, a disk of 1.25 steel chucked in lathe, hole saw to core out center, then bore out until support fits.
Grab by center and clean up outside.
The lip too small to support tube so made a washer via hole saw into 1/8 plate and clean up in lathe.
A pair of end caps for the support tube, made from old radio heat sink 1/2 aluminum rough cut with holw saw cleaned up in lathe, top one fits inside the tube and rests on top, this one threaded in center hole.
Bottom fits on bottom of adaptor disk and fits inside the washer to keep in alignment,through hole in center.
All thread connects the adaptor plate and tube together.
All assembled it is for a tall person, and we made a steel bar to add a handle later, this thing weighs a ton, still need to add something to drag it onto a hand truck, far now that is just the rectangle sitting on the wheel studs.
Some photos...
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