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[Lord Lucan]

Beautiful garden and BBQ area... Excellent neat works.. You've blown mine right out of the water... As Alan Sugar would say... You're Hired

[jamesmpi]

Great effort on the back garden. Great transformation

[leigh21]

Had a hour in the garage this afternoon after pinching some white faced chipboard from my dads unit, knocked up some lining for the inside. Not sure if I will keep it as it is, it looks ok and has about 150mm air gap around 3 sides so hopefully ventilation shouldn't be a problem. But I'll have another tinker with it tomorrow.


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If anyone has any inspiration for the inside please don't be shy ☺️

[slidehammer]

Looks great, the rear end you started with was very sound, in much better condition than my usual projects start out at!

[lawrence]

It looks awesome, sad thing is the paintwork and the fit of the bootlid are better then my actual car. Im being upstaged by a bbq kill me haha

[leigh21]

Thanks for the comments, been and got me some wood and bits this morning, and set to making the mold for the worktop, I would just like to say I have never done this before and just done a lot of research online. Failure is always an option.

I started by cutting the 18mm melamine into the rough shape


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After deciding on the thickness of the top I cut some lengths to form the part where the BBQ will slot into, glued and screwed into place making sure it's as square as possible, then after fitting the back piece into place I had some very nice flexible plastic which bent round the make the curve at the front (hopefully it's strong enough once the concrete has been poured)



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I placed the BBQ on upside down just to check the measurements were correct, and everything seem ok at this point.


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I then cut some reinforcing mesh which will go into the concrete and hopefully make it a bit stronger.


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I'm going to let the glue dry overnight and get the concrete poured In the morning.

Wish me luck!

Edited by leigh21, 02 August 2017 - 01:31 PM.

[leigh21]

This morning I took the worktop out the mold and by some miricle it's just about perfect.
Here's some photos of it in the mold





And here it is out







Pretty happy with how it's come out, just waiting on some polishing pads to arrive before I put in place.
Nearly BBQ time!

[xrocketengineer]

Amazing, you were not messing around! Fantastic result! Enjoy it!

[Big Sam]

Now what you need to do is stick a rear subframe on, wheels and tow it to mini shows!

[panky]

I'd go to that show - for a free burger

[leigh21]

Thanks everyone, jobs left to do are: couple of wheels, bumper and polish the top. Here's some pictures:









(Incase you were wondering the sun never shines here)

[Lord Lucan]

Excellent work. It's given me a few ideas....

[magicmat]

Very nice build, and am loving the concrete top !  very fasionable nowadays, 

 

I think i'd be too scared to use it, wouldnt want the paint getting burnt or damaged

[leigh21]

I know what you mean, it's going to be a bottom clenching few minutes when I finally light it up, fingers crossed 🤞

[magicmat]

I've never known my coal BBQ to spit or anything so I'm sure it will be fine,

Maybe your next project could be a pizza oven out of the print end 😁