try fair sized (big ) ms round bar to make one out of
Best Steel For A Fire Grate?
- Thread starter Cab-over Pete
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Campbell
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- Herefordshire
Goweresque
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- North Wilts
I replaced the grate of my woodburner with a piece of 10mm plate that had come from of an old back boiler, with holes drilled in it to let the ashes through into the ash pan. It must be some top grade steel, its not buckled at all, its as flat today as it was when I fitted it best part of 10 years ago, and a lot of wood has been through the stove in that time!
Landyman
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Not unless you can get it up to around 1400 degsView attachment 611632
Found this in a shed clear out last week. I made it some years and never used it. Mainly 1" bar and flat. Going to clean it up, paint black then ad in local paper. Ideal for those Christmas Logs.
Will it melt @Landyman?
Jon
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- South Norfolk
Made this years ago out of 3/8 chequed plate.
Just blew holes in it for draft, and it sits on a frame that goes inside the hearth.
Still very straight.
Just blew holes in it for draft, and it sits on a frame that goes inside the hearth.
Still very straight.
Cab-over Pete
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- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
That’s something like I was thinking.
Is it just mild steel plate?
Few quid, Bobs your uncle.
Is it just mild steel plate?
Few quid, Bobs your uncle.
multi power
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- pembrokeshire
What about hardox ? Be pretty safe if happen to have a "incident" with the loadall while clearing out the ash
Jon
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- South Norfolk
If that reply is to me @Cab-over Pete, it's from second hand chequed plate, (or that's what we call it), with those lozenge shapes, they're on the underside, not sure how this compares to mild steel though.
Just thought, the bit of mild steel with the bars over it across the front will have helped keep it flat.
Cab-over Pete
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- Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Looks good.
- Location
- south norfolk
Made one several years ago with 20mm solid square bar.went well for several years till i got a wood burner
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suffolksmallholder
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- Suffolk
I like fire dogs as in the past I had just round timber cut to 18" lengths but I now have a wood burner & my wife can't lift this size so I have 1' long billets that lay the other way.
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tomlad
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- nr. preston
I was debating making one me cen
Saw some be chance in local stove shop
£45 ish new with new ash pan
A 1" or so too small but close enough i think
Heat resistant glass co poulton Blackpool
It seemed as tho its a one off bin sat there in spares ..... worth a call ??
Saw some be chance in local stove shop
£45 ish new with new ash pan
A 1" or so too small but close enough i think
Heat resistant glass co poulton Blackpool
It seemed as tho its a one off bin sat there in spares ..... worth a call ??
- Location
- Shropshire
I made a grate some years ago, mild steel legs, sides, front and back, with solid round 20mm bright bar in the bottom, it’s had some tremendous heat in it burning logs and plenty of coal, the front, back and sides have bowed a little, but the bright round bar is as straight as the day it it was made.