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My Homemade Barbecue Grill And How To Build ItThe great thing about a homemade barbecue grill is that you can make one out of just about anything and it needent cost the Earth either.I built my first homemade bbq grill out of a pile of bricks and a cake cooling tray and it worked perfectly well for what I needed at the time. My latest homemade grill (in the piccie below) started life as an industrial sewing machine stand.
There are essentially 4 component parts:-
The Base Is an old sewing machine stand. It doesn’t have to be this but I found this stand to be ideal because it is just about the right height for me and provides a reasonable size cross section for a good surface are of grill. The Charcoal Tray Is a rectangle of cast iron that I got my local blacksmith to weld a lip to so that my bricks didn’t fall off the tray. I used 3mm thick sheet.
What dimensions for the tray? That depends on the dimensions of the bricks that you are using and how big a cooking area you want. Plan it our with the bricks placed on a sheet of paper and you can’t go wrong. The Cooking Rack This is the complicated bit from a metal work point of view so I was straight down to my blacksmith but it’s basically a rectangle made out of steel angle welded to a piece of tube that is subsequently welded to the height adjustment mechanism.
The cooking grid is steel mesh cut to size. After all it is a homemade BBQ grill so what did you expect, porcelain enamel? Steel is a little crude but it’s easily brushed with a barbecue cleaning tool and if you’re really up for a non stick surface then slap a Teflon barbecue mat on top. The Height Adjustment The final part of my homemade barbecue grill is the height adjustment and congratulations if you’ve spotted that it is an automobile jack. 
If properly greased, this is a really easy way to get absolute control of the charcoal heat. Not that I have a counterbalance to ensure that the cooking rack drops down when the jack is compacted.See Also:-
Build A Brick BBQ
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The dimensions of the rectangle doesn’t need to be quite is large as the grill tray but certainly so that it overlaps the bricks.
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