Fire Grate repair

[Paul.]

Nice little bench job for a change today, repair this fire basket and grating, not a proper restoration just enough to make it usable again, the grating is definitly past its sell by date, but the basket is repairable, I've started to pull the rivets out here.

The horizontal rail is burnt and distorted so I've cut out the damaged section and let in a new piece of bar, make 3 new pointy bits and make some rivets out of M8 bolts

New grating made fromm 16mm square bar, and its ready to put back in service.

 

[roofman]

like the rivet idea

 

[Shedendman]

Erm,why is the grate sitting so high up in the basket?

 

[roofman]

Erm,why is the grate sitting so high up in the basket?

iff it fits the top then it should fit the bottom if it goes in slanted

 

[Paul.]

Erm,why is the grate sitting so high up in the basket?

Just for the photo, I took a couple with it on the bottom but seem to have lost them.

iff it fits the top then it should fit the bottom if it goes in slanted

It does

 

[Shedendman]

yer i knew that,for demo purposes only

 

[roofman]

yer i knew that,for demo purposes only

no...for someone who cant afford a lot of coal

 

[mr migwire]

did you heat the ends of the rivets or peen them over cold mate?

 

[Paul.]

did you heat the ends of the rivets or peen them over cold mate?

Used the tig to heat them, then set them on the anvil,

 

[mr migwire]

looks very well paul, may I pinch the design / I am planning a small fixed chimnea type thing for the garden that would look good with a bascket like that...

 

[sardine]

May I suggest firing it up to test, because the grates I've made sometimes the welds crack off one or two of the bars.

To be really fussy I would think a welded grate might need to be put in a forge and all the stresses taken out, Annealed or normalised I don't know which.

 

[Migmac]

My mother had one like that, looked grate! (sorry). It was terrible to get a fire burning well in it. It got put in the shed and the fire was set on the base of the fire place, was 100% better.

 

[Paul.]

May I suggest firing it up to test, because the grates I've made sometimes the welds crack off one or two of the bars.

To be really fussy I would think a welded grate might need to be put in a forge and all the stresses taken out, Annealed or normalised I don't know which.

The old one was in use for ten years, the new one is an exact copy, only difference is mine is properly vee'd out and mig welded, the old one was arc welded with no prep, so I wont be worrying too much about it.

My mother had one like that, looked grate! (sorry). It was terrible to get a fire burning well in it. It got put in the shed and the fire was set on the base of the fire place, was 100% better.

Its a customers not mine, but he did say that it worked well in its present design,

 

[Wendelspanswick]

I thought for a moment it was one I had made about 20 years ago but I seem to remember mine had forged Fleur De Lis on the front 2 uprights.

 

[Paul.]

The missing photos, somehow the files were corrupted on the SD card

 

[sardine]

My Morso Squirrel grate fell to bits last night. My last spare one. I'm now using a drain grating from my junk pile.

Should be easy to fabricate though, rather than 30 pound for a new one.

 

[Paul.]

I couldn't let this customers job go without getting some stainless on it, this is the liner to a brass coal bucket

It has a bit of a problem with its bottom, as in it no longer has one.

So I made a new one from stainless steel, just cleaned up and painted the original handles and re used them, should be good for another 100 years or so.

 

[Robotstar5]

So I made a new one from stainless steel, just cleaned up and painted the original handles and re used them, should be good for another 100 years or so.

No chance of repeat business then?

 

[roofman]

I couldn't let this customers job go without getting some stainless on it, this is the liner to a brass coal bucket
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It has a bit of a problem with its bottom, as in it no longer has one.
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So I made a new one from stainless steel, just cleaned up and painted the original handles and re used them, should be good for another 100 years or so.
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I might commision you to make me a new scouse pan mate...thats a fantastic looking job you done there