Hi Hi,
Well quite a while a go I was thinking of making a fire box. The idea was to be light, flat packable, completely enclosed, big enough to burn for a while without re-fueling, with a large enough cooking surface for a couple of tins/ a large frying pan.
It was one of the reasons I joined this forum - I was looking for inspiration and ideas
. Anyway after tinkering around with various ideas and making various prototypes [some which worked, some....... not so much] I've gotten to this:-
Above is looking at the forward right side, the hinge is the door hinge. The front back and sides are titanium plate with the edges flanged in by 15mm. They are all held together by hinges which have tent pegs poked through - remove tent peg and it comes apart. The top plate is from an old computer case, the bottom is galvanised [yes I know] cable tray and can be seen better here:-
I was thinking of having a grate for the bottom to allow air in and also so I can poke ash through the bottom to stop it gettin gtoo clogged up. The whole lot is raised by bolts through the holes of cable tray. Eventually I'll get some thinner [lighter] perforated plate - but this is the best I could get at the time [i.e. from the skip]
I haven't sorted the exhaust yet been thinking of a piece of shim to roll up - but I haven't even got round to cutting a hole in the top plate yet....
Below with the sides, front and back flat packed:-
The whole lot weight just under 3kg - I can reduce that quite a bit as the bottom cable tray plate is almost a third of the total weight. measures 13" square and 10" tall.
This is my small billy sitting on top it's about 12cm diameter.
Any comments/ suggestions etc are most welcome.
The tools used were pliers, hammer [there's got to be a hammer involved somewhere] wrench, tin snips and a hacksaw so it is a bit rough round the edges. I could have got some one to bend it all nicely for me on machines but where is the fun in that? - maybe for the final version I might but at the moment I'm just playing.
Well quite a while a go I was thinking of making a fire box. The idea was to be light, flat packable, completely enclosed, big enough to burn for a while without re-fueling, with a large enough cooking surface for a couple of tins/ a large frying pan.
It was one of the reasons I joined this forum - I was looking for inspiration and ideas
. Anyway after tinkering around with various ideas and making various prototypes [some which worked, some....... not so much] I've gotten to this:-
Above is looking at the forward right side, the hinge is the door hinge. The front back and sides are titanium plate with the edges flanged in by 15mm. They are all held together by hinges which have tent pegs poked through - remove tent peg and it comes apart. The top plate is from an old computer case, the bottom is galvanised [yes I know] cable tray and can be seen better here:-
I was thinking of having a grate for the bottom to allow air in and also so I can poke ash through the bottom to stop it gettin gtoo clogged up. The whole lot is raised by bolts through the holes of cable tray. Eventually I'll get some thinner [lighter] perforated plate - but this is the best I could get at the time [i.e. from the skip]
I haven't sorted the exhaust yet been thinking of a piece of shim to roll up - but I haven't even got round to cutting a hole in the top plate yet....
Below with the sides, front and back flat packed:-
The whole lot weight just under 3kg - I can reduce that quite a bit as the bottom cable tray plate is almost a third of the total weight. measures 13" square and 10" tall.
This is my small billy sitting on top it's about 12cm diameter.
Any comments/ suggestions etc are most welcome.
The tools used were pliers, hammer [there's got to be a hammer involved somewhere
] wrench, tin snips and a hacksaw so it is a bit rough round the edges. I could have got some one to bend it all nicely for me on machines but where is the fun in that? - maybe for the final version I might but at the moment I'm just playing.
