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I think that it is pretty cool! :)
Nicely done, awesome table!
How are you supporting the bowls inside the table, do I see small support tabs? In your last photo with the coals on fire, it looks like the wind is pushing those flames against the edge of the cutouts for the bowls. I think the table looks nice, but you might want to have some sort of shielding or flashing inside the cutouts and up over the edge slightly!
It's metal conduit holders! I'm gonna use a gasket from the egg, it's fire resistant! I think the holes need to be just a hair wider lol! It was pretty breezy here in KC last night!
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Pretty cool setup, but yeah, even these that aren't right close to the edge have a metal flashing:
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd520/1buckie/1st%202013%20chicken/Bad%20Habits%20-%20Semi%20-%20Grails/BadHabitsampSemi-Grails012.jpg)
That's sharp!! Back to Home Depot I go lol thanks guys for the tips!!
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I think you might want to mount them so that the lip of the bowl is up above the surface of the table. If not, you have too many opportunities for heat or flames to blow on the rim of your opening or even to be channeled under the surface of the table. I think you'll enjoy this set up. I'd put three or four good coats of spar varnish on there too. Of course, let it cure before firing up the grills. :o
If those are both golds they have handles on each side of the bowl, right? If that is the case then you can take the plastic covers off the handles and then attach the handles to the underside of the table. You could probably even reuse the conduit holders to do that. It would raise the bowl up much higher, more like the photo that buckie shared.
Quote from: jaysackuvich on March 13, 2014, 04:41:26 AM
It's metal conduit holders! I'm gonna use a gasket from the egg, it's fire resistant! I think the holes need to be just a hair wider lol! It was pretty breezy here in KC last night!
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Kudos!!! I had the idea to use conduit holders a while back, but hadn't gotten around to building my table. Thanks for testing them out! How many did you use per kettle? Great job!
Four! But as easy as they were to install, maybe four more per kettle! Not expensive at all! Thanks I'm really enjoying it!!
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I'm not sure what a 'conduit holder' is. Can you show a photo of the device?
Timleo, these kinds of things:
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd520/1buckie/Cookers%202012/Older%20Cookers/4ee75bf8-2384-4b7a-b45d-0241920b8fc7_300.jpg)
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd520/1buckie/Cookers%202012/Older%20Cookers/82d90f16-f366-467d-9a4e-d33766fc8950_300.jpg)
Not sure which he may have used, but it's a MacGyver job, for sure !!!!
I have set Mesa Azul on fire twice and my grill is much farther from the wood than yours. And I have tile as shielding. I think eventually this will burn.....
Like the ingenuity. You have received some great advice above.
I would hope that you mount a fire extinguisher somewhere on or near the table. Between your table, wood deck, and wood fence, you have quite a bit of "fuel" that just needs a wayward spark to turn into a real disaster.
I have a wood deck and always keep a fire extinguisher and running water source nearby. It has saved me at least twice.
Enough of the "advice"
Winz
Quote from: 1buckie on March 18, 2014, 10:44:15 AM
Timleo, these kinds of things:
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd520/1buckie/Cookers%202012/Older%20Cookers/4ee75bf8-2384-4b7a-b45d-0241920b8fc7_300.jpg)
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd520/1buckie/Cookers%202012/Older%20Cookers/82d90f16-f366-467d-9a4e-d33766fc8950_300.jpg)
Not sure which he may have used, but it's a MacGyver job, for sure !!!!
Little upsetting to be a part of such a great forum, just to be told that you "MacGyvered" something! Wow! Clips hold fine, even with a 14# brisket. Did a 48 hour event here in KC! And the table never even got hot. Winds were high too! I wouldn't change a thing to be honest! I don't know bout y'all but here in the Midwest you always have a water source close by. To be honest, the next table will have tighter holes, when I ringed the coals for pizza, the table never got hot to touch! Don't ask why, cause I don't know lol! No gasket or neoprene wrap needed! Been through 40# coal each and does fine! Three coats of poly, and two coats of glaze. Even put lighter fluid it on it and lit it! Lol all I'd did was put itself out! Must be the humidity!
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"Little upsetting to be a part of such a great forum, just to be told that you "MacGyvered" something!"
Oh, hey....not intended badly.....coming from my perspective, that's the highest of compliments and was intended as such !!!!
Ingenious construction = MacGyveriism
Glad it worked out so well......... ;D
I am pretty sure that being told that you "MacGyered it" was meant as a compliment..
Now if he said that you "Jerry-Rigged it", that's an insult.
Disclaimer: No Jerry's were harmed with this insult.
Nice work on the table.. Really, it looks good.. 8)
"To make an auotomatic weapon with laser sights out of a bic pen and a flashlight" - Mcgyvered!!!!!!!!
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To use a 2X4 as a jack stand...jerry rigged!!
I would like a detailed picture of how you did support the bowls. I have a similar table project about to commence.
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In a nutshell:
Jury-rigged = GOOD
Jerry-rigged = BAD
from WordOrigins.org :
Jerry-built, meaning to temporary or shoddy construction, dates to 1869. It may derive from the name of a builder who was notorious for poor construction. An 1884 source (unconfirmed) says that the phrase is in reference to a particular construction project on the Mersey River in Britain.
From Etymonline.com :
jerry-built
1869, Eng. dial. jerry "bad, defective," a pejorative use of the male nickname Jerry (a popular form of Jeremy), or from naut. slang jury "temporary," which came to be used of all sorts of makeshift and inferior objects (see jury (adj.)).
However, we should not confuse "jerry-built" with "jury rigged". While they sound similar, their meanings are DIFFERENT.
According to WordOrigins.org:
Jury rig, while similar sounding, has a slightly different meaning, emphasizing the temporary nature of the solution and can imply an ingenious solution done with materials at hand. Jerry-built, on the other hand, is often used for a permanent, but poorly built, construction and has no positive connotation.
The origin of jury rig is nautical and dates to 1788. It is from the nautical term jury mast. This term dates to at least 1616 and refers to a temporary mast erected to hold sail when the normal mast has been lost due to storm or battle. It is commonly thought that this sense of the word is a clipped form of injury mast, but no evidence of this longer term has been found.
I still wouldn't use a 2x4 for a jack stand.
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Quote from: MartyG on March 22, 2014, 06:39:57 AM
In a nutshell:
Jury-rigged = GOOD
Jerry-rigged = BAD
from WordOrigins.org :
Jerry-built, meaning to temporary or shoddy construction, dates to 1869. It may derive from the name of a builder who was notorious for poor construction. An 1884 source (unconfirmed) says that the phrase is in reference to a particular construction project on the Mersey River in Britain.
From Etymonline.com :
jerry-built
1869, Eng. dial. jerry "bad, defective," a pejorative use of the male nickname Jerry (a popular form of Jeremy), or from naut. slang jury "temporary," which came to be used of all sorts of makeshift and inferior objects (see jury (adj.)).
However, we should not confuse "jerry-built" with "jury rigged". While they sound similar, their meanings are DIFFERENT.
According to WordOrigins.org:
Jury rig, while similar sounding, has a slightly different meaning, emphasizing the temporary nature of the solution and can imply an ingenious solution done with materials at hand. Jerry-built, on the other hand, is often used for a permanent, but poorly built, construction and has no positive connotation.
The origin of jury rig is nautical and dates to 1788. It is from the nautical term jury mast. This term dates to at least 1616 and refers to a temporary mast erected to hold sail when the normal mast has been lost due to storm or battle. It is commonly thought that this sense of the word is a clipped form of injury mast, but no evidence of this longer term has been found.
OK.....but what about MacGyver?
I certainly did not say that to hurt anyone......I really do think Angus MacGyver was one of the craftiest problem solvers ever & I thought Jay's construction matched that............
MacGyver
v. 1. To use ingenuity to fix or remedy a problem using only the tools available at hand. 2. To jury-rig
n. Someone who can regularly cobble together solutions to problems using only the tools available at hand.
Your CD playa broke, huh? Gimme that string, a pencil, and a sock, and I'm a MacGyver it.
Man, I be a regular MacGyver when it comes to making bongs
Then also, I would add:
To gather items seemingly unrelated to the task at hand, and provide a better than expected solution
You just described George Stephen and his first kettle grill perfectly!
Dang !!!
Caught on !!!
It was supposed to be subliminal............... 8)