My wife often wonders what all this metal equipment and shop time is good for. Besides building the world's most over-designed training wheels, I figured I'd better come up with something else with some utility to have in my defense. Since I don't have a lot of time these days for constructing some gigantic project, I looked around for something simple. Really simple. Like the broken BBQ.
The BBQ has a wooden frame and two side platforms, and there was the occasion that I was using one of those platforms as a support for hammering something, when the quarter inch of redwood in the back which was holding things together, decided to come apart. Thus it has remained for several years as I haven't gotten around to jimmying something together to fix it. But no longer.
I had in mind a simple bracket which would provide new support for the back rail, and thus bring everything back into place. A quick trip to the shop to do some cutting, bending and drilling, and I had my piece. almost Actually fitting the piece into place revealed some not-so-ideal clearances, so a quick pass in the bench shears (which managed to bite a corner off the 16 gauge steel just fine), and I think I'm good to go.
Just have to get out there with the drill and put this thing together. Not the highest thing on my list right now, but sometime this summer for sure.
