Thread: I am building a 32 grill----Wanna Watch????

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This post shows the result of fitting the 2 halves of the perimeter frame into the shell, and tack welding them together in place, to achieve the proper fit and angle. After they were tacked together, they were carefully removed and welded solidly together on the bench. A word of caution---this is not an easy thing to do---you need one hand to hold each peice in place, one hand to hold the welder, one hand to hold the light---in short you need more arms than an octopus. I had the individual peices in and out half a dozen times trimming them to length, etcetera---then I tacked them at the top only, took the assembled peices out, trimmed some more at the bottom, put them back in the shell, tacked the bottom---you get the picture. Once they were welded to my satisfaction, I stuck them back into the shell, marked what I beleive is the center, and cut the center rod to length (cut it a bit long and keep grinding the ends a bit at a time untill it is a perfect fit between the top and bottom of the frame. Then tack weld at the bottom only. Then get out your carpenters level and make absolutely certain that the rod is dead nuts vertical, then tack the top. You only get one chance at this---cause the other rods are all spaced out 1/4" from that center rod. My next post will show how I space the bars exactly.