A Charcoal Chimney that lasts. Hopefully.

[Quiganomics]

I bid farewell to another charcoal chimney due to rust this weekend, so went to Lowe's to get a replacement this morning. $25 now for a replacement that will rust out again in due time, and that got me thinking...I own a welder, hell...I even have a laser shop to make it pretty, I'll just make my own. I left and headed over to a metal-fab shop and grabbed some 1/8" steel, so now I'm sitting here conceptualizing a design and think I have a good idea of what I want. Put my ideas into canva's ai generator and after some tweaks, this is what I landed on:

So time permitting, hopefully I'll have a woking prototype this weekend, and depending how it turns out, I may decide to add it to the shop.

Hopefully this will be a chimney that out-lasts me, from my calculations it'll weigh in at about 11 lbs.


-Shaun

 

[cpaysonc]

Sweet!! I do believe there's a market for that!

 

[Smoke-Chem BBQ]

That'll be a beast--it should serve you well!

I would consider a longer standoff for the wooden handle, considering how hot the chimney will get in use--I'd worry about the wood starting to char.

 

[Quiganomics]

That'll be a beast--it should serve you well!

I would consider a longer standoff for the wooden handle, considering how hot the chimney will get in use--I'd worry about the wood starting to char.

Yeah, I had planned on that, just couldn't get canva to do exactly what I wanted.

 

[indaswamp]

Hell yeah! I like how you think!

 

[philpom]

That'll be a beast--it should serve you well!

I would consider a longer standoff for the wooden handle, considering how hot the chimney will get in use--I'd worry about the wood starting to char.

And maybe a heat shield between the handle and body plus a swing arm to help dump it. Some folks will find that to be too heavy to manage with one hand.

 

[philpom]

Looks great!

 

[normanaj]

What did you have last that rusted out?

 

[Quiganomics]

What did you have last that rusted out?

This one:

-Shaun

 

[voyager 663rd]

As above, my Weber has lasted--20 years(?)

 

[Quiganomics]

As above, my Weber has lasted--20 years(?)

Must've gotten lucky. I'm on #3 or 4, father in law has had the same issue.