How To Make A Brazier From A Gas Cylinder With Your Own Hands + Photos And Videos

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-17 22:26

Brazier from an old gas cylinder with your own hands

Summer is the time for outdoor picnics, outside the city, in the country or in the yard of your house. And what a picnic without barbecue, meat and vegetables on the grill or barbecue? There are many cooking methods, but each of them requires a grill. Of course, you can buy it ready-made in a store or order it from a workshop. We offer you an excellent opportunity to pump your own skills as a home craftsman by making a universal brazier with your own hands from an empty gas cylinder.

Content

• 1 Materials and tools

• 2 From simple to complex: open grill, barbecue, smokehouse, smoker

  2.1 Photo gallery: how you can arrange a brazier

• 3 Preparatory work

  • 3.1 How to properly open and flush a propane cylinder
  • 3.2 Do I need a drawing

• 4 Illustrative instructions

  • 4.1 Breaking the cylinder
  • 4.2 Barbecue legs
  • 4.3 Fitting the cover and handle
  • 4.4 Assembly
• 5 How to paint
• 6 Video: do-it-yourself grill-smokehouse from a cylinder
• 7 Video: how to make a brazier from a gas cylinder in three hours

Materials and tools

The first thing to prepare is, of course, the gas cylinder itself. The main condition is that the capacity of the device should be 50 liters, and the height should be 120 cm. This is the most suitable size for a barbecue, on which you can cook a lot of food at the same time.

From an old, worn out gas cylinder 120 cm high, you can make an excellent brazier

In addition to the balloon, you will need:

• Bulgarian;
• drill;
• a hammer;
• chisel;
• adjustable wrench;
• screwdriver;
• 2 sturdy door hinges;
• metal pipe;

• corner.

  

  The grinder is the main tool that you will need to make a barbecue

The brazier will need to be installed on legs. You can make them from metal corners or pipes, or do design and use, for example, racks from an old sewing machine.

The legs from the Singer sewing machine will be a very original stand for the barbecue

From simple to complex: open grill, barbecue, smokehouse, smoker

There are several of the most common types of barbecues, and all of them can be built from an old, out of order gas cylinder:

• an ordinary brazier without a lid;
• B-B-Q;
• smokehouse;
• smoker.

The last three types have a number of significant differences, which we will consider in detail.

1. A barbecue is a fairly simple design, both in appearance and in manufacture. A part of the side is cut off at the cylinder, which is then attached to the hinges and serves as a door. Inside is a place for coals and a grid on which you will put food for frying.

   

   Barbecue grill - a simple design with a lid without a smoke exhaust pipe

2. The smokehouse differs from the usual barbecue by the presence of a firebox and tightness. To make it, a strip of metal is cut off in the bottom of the cylinder and a part of the bottom, usually half, is cut off. A furnace made of sheet iron or from another cylinder must be welded and equipped with an additional pipe for exhausting smoke. When the smokehouse is ready, you need to fire it several times with wood, after which you can start actually smoking.

   

   Brazier-smokehouse assumes the presence of a firebox and a chimney

3. Brazier-smoker, or as it is also called - a steam locomotive. A much more complex design, but multifunctional - it combines everything that one could want from such a device: brazier, grill, smokehouse, barbecue. In order to build such a super-unit, several cylinder pipes are needed, and each will have its own option. As a result, this device really looks like a steam locomotive.

   

   Brazier-smoker is the most complex, but also the most versatile design of several gas cylinders

Photo gallery: how you can arrange a brazier

Barbecue brazier can be decorated as a steam locomotive or antique car

Brazier-smoker, in the common people - a steam locomotive, practically does not need any additions and in itself looks decorative

The hinged lid is often attached to the chain for easy opening when hot

Brazier-smokehouse can also be with comfortable shelves

You can make shelves next to and under the barbecue

A woodpile is often placed below

Perhaps the simplest option: a brazier with a removable lid on a pipe leg

Turn the brazier into a submarine

Preparatory work

How to properly open and flush a propane cylinder

Never forget about safety rules. You will have to cut open the cylinder that contained the gas, which means that a spark must not be allowed to ignite and ignite the remaining propane.

1. To avoid trouble, first open the cylinder valve and wait until the gas has completely evaporated.

   

   Unscrew the cylinder valve completely to release any remaining gas

2. Then place it upside down and drain the condensation. To control the escape of gas, apply some soap suds to the valve opening. When it stops bubbling, you can continue working. Lay the can on one side and cut off the valve, constantly pouring cold water over the saw cut. Attach a hose to the cutoff and fill the container to the top with water, constantly shaking it so that the inner surface is washed from the smell of gas.

   

   Be sure to flush the balloon

3. Leave it for several days, then empty it somewhere away from residential buildings. Then you can start cutting.

Do I need a drawing

As for working with a cylinder, no drawings are needed to make an open barbecue. With a barbecue, everything is also easy. There is no single correct scheme, it all depends on your taste and favorite way of cooking. If you plan to use only ready-made coals and a grate, then, perhaps, the distance between them can leave less by cutting the cylinder along exactly in the middle. If you make your own charcoal and use skewers rather than a grate, then let the lid be smaller in height than the base.

Illustrative instructions

So, the balloon is completely ready and flushed. Now you need to cut it into 2 pieces. The easiest option is to simply cut the balloon in half lengthwise and get two classic open grills.

The easiest way is to cut the balloon in half and use it like a regular open grill.

If you are making a barbecue grill, then you need to "cut out" and cut off a rectangle that will be the lid of the barbecue, and the second part remains as a base. Draw a rectangle on the surface of the cut lines, horizontal lines will run approximately in the middle of the balloon or 5 cm above it, and vertical (transverse) lines at a distance of about 20 cm from its edges.

Cutting the cylinder

To cut the cylinder, use a gas cutter or grinder. Mark the boundaries of the lid: from the welding seams connecting the base and the bottom of the container, step back 5 cm and mark the line along which the cut will be made. Saw from the middle towards the edge, while holding the grinder disc perpendicular to the cylinder.

It looks like a cut balloon - a blank for a barbecue

Barbecue legs

Consider how high your barbecue should be, and then start attaching the legs. You need to firmly set the grill on the ground so that it is convenient to weld the lid.

The easiest way is to attach legs from an old sewing machine or a metal underframe from a small desk to the barbecue

You can construct pipe legs by bolting them to the bottom. Make 4 holes in the bottom of the base, insert the bolts into them with the threads outward. Secure with nuts or weld to secure. Attach nuts for bolts to the tops of the legs by welding and screw to the base of your barbecue.

Installing the cover and handle

To attach the cover, make holes for the hinges, fix them with rivets and weld them. If this is not done, the lid may come off due to the high temperature. You can install a removable lid without hinges, then inside, metal strips must be attached to the transverse edges of the barbecue so that the lid does not fall inside.

Secure the lid to the grill with welded door hinges

Bolts can be used to attach the handle to the cover. It is enough just to drill holes for them and fix them. Choose simple handles that are heat-resistant so they don't burn later. Very comfortable handles can be made from a metal rod by welding it to the base.

Choose comfortable heat-resistant handles for the barbecue

Now you need to install the stop on the cover. Make it from a corner or part of a pipe. And the lid itself can be fixed on one or both sides with the help of chains, thereby determining the maximum possible amount of its "tilting".

Assembly

1. You may experience brazier warping when cooking on the grill. To avoid this, weld the corners to the inner longitudinal edges of the base. You can place a barbecue grill or skewers on the ledge that comes out of the corner. For the high legs of the barbecue, additional fixation is also needed, which you can easily provide if you weld a corner around the outer perimeter of the structure, which will increase its rigidity.

   

   The body of the barbecue must be strengthened so that later the brazier does not deform

2. Drill holes in the bottom of the barbecue. They are needed so that it is convenient to pour out the coals or drain the water accumulated after rain. In addition, the firewood in the grill will burn better if air is drawn from below.

   

   Make holes in the bottom of the barbecue

3. Install a smoke outlet pipe in the hole where the valve was and weld it. Not everyone does this, someone leaves the grill without a chimney, especially if you plan to cook mainly with an open lid.

   

   Install the smoke exhaust pipe

4. If you did not attach a corner inside, with the help of a grinder you can make slots in the sides of the base into which the skewers will be installed.

Grinder the slots in the walls of the skewer container

How to paint

You may want to paint the grill from a balloon. This is not necessary at all, but it is quite acceptable from an aesthetic point of view. Choose heat-resistant paints that won't degrade when exposed to temperatures, imparting unhealthy aromas and flavors to food being cooked.

Now on sale there is a lot of domestic and imported ink, designed to operate at 600-800 ^about C. They are applied on a layer of a special primer (it is advisable to pick it up in the store right away with the paint). These paints, as a rule, are environmentally friendly, therefore they are suitable for painting the barbecue both outside and inside. By color, they are most often black or red, there are also silver.

Video: do-it-yourself grill-smokehouse from a cylinder

Video: how to make a brazier from a gas cylinder in three hours

As you can see, there are no complicated manipulations in the manufacture of a barbecue from a cylinder, however, the work will require care and patience. But such a device will serve you for many years, delighting your family and friends not only with delicious kebabs, but also with other meat and fish dishes. And notice how cheap this grill cost you. Tell us in the comments about your experience in making braziers from cylinders on your own. Good luck and easy work!