Challenge against time!!

Its been really long since my last post and i know some are not so happy as well because i owe them past blog post and updates.

Many things have been happening lately which i am suppose to blog about but failed to do so...just to update below are the happenings which i will try to blog about in a separate post

1. Post BBQ pictures and seeing the grill in action

    Well the BBQ was awesome and the pit really did a good job but unfortunately all the photos       were lost as my phone got bricked along with the entire marination process as well..bummer

2. I was hospitalized...arghh..Prolapsed Disc

    Well this happened at the beginning of the month of July and it was worse than a bitter                 journey, thankfully i am the luckiest guy in this world as my gf took emergency leave and               come to take care of me with her dad. Thanks for that sweetheart, it really meant alot. So             happens she also has her own blog and she did write about it which can be found                         here....Crazycurle

3. Updates on the moose

    Well the moose on the other hand received some handsome addons. I managed to get the         windows tinted (3m), eyes were upgraded with Xenon Conversion Kits and with Philips LED     bulp for the evening lights/DRL (which ever you call it). I actually took photos of the entire             process of getting the tint done but as mentioned on no1, its all gone along with the phone

4. Food trip

    2 weeks back me and my close mates made a trip back to my home town just to eat and             literally that is all we did. It was indeed a very well and fun trip. Now this i promise i will share       the experience here, im just pending the photos from my buddy.

5. First love still not sold

    From my first post you would know what im trying to sell my first car but i have not been               anything about it to get it sold, but not that the car has been sleeping under the tree for some       time now, the car actually looks bad. The last i started the car, found out that only 3 pistons         were moving which means one of the plugs were dead. So plans are to fix everything and do     some handsome selling really soon (need funds for the moose).

That's all for now..

DIY BBQ PIT

One of my close friend had just moved in to his beautiful new house and decided to throw a nice bbq dinner. 

When we were talking about it and looking at bbq pits, the idea struck our heads (me being a typical "why buy when you can built one", turns out he is just another hands on junkie) lets just build a pit!

So we picked last weekend to construct the pit, ill let the pictures do the talking....

Blueprint - all great ideas starts on a paper (ignore the right diagram, that's a multi layered pit)

Angle Line used to construct the main structure 

The Smith doing what he does best - playing with his man toys - referring to the power tools of course! 

Bare in mind that there were alot of calculations, physics theories and laws were put to the measurement before cutting it up

45 degrees cut to avoid them from overlapping 

Aircraft grade titanium bolts were used with thread sealant (just kidding, normal bolts found in our local hardware stores) 

This is the key to holding the structure in place, without it, you will have a dancing bbq pit

Half a day went by and walllaaaa...the main structure is up and standing  so solid as if it were on Viagra! 

Here comes the pain in the butt part....shaping the 1mm zinc to sit on the structure

From here on my hands were really tied down (no picture taken during this process) as it was not easy making the zinc shape the way you want it to...after all the pain, cuts and back ache, below is the end results.

The top part of the angle line needs to be copped off

The center bar was added to give the structure of the zinc some rigidness 

Its not really visible but the base on the zinc is layered with a thick grill for the charcoal to sit on and the ashes from the charcoal will go right under. 

As this was the first time for both of us to construct this piece of art, i took us the whole day to complete, several cans of beers, several cups of coffee, and most importantly a big fat bag of laughter and joy.

The end results made it look like as if it had eyes..haha...its actually an opening to place the charcoal so we dont have to remove the top part when we want to top up the charcoal.

All in all, very satisfied with the results and wait to see this in action!