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Wanted to share the carrier I built for my Mini Egg
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firebike
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I use my mini mainly for camping and any place I need a portable grill. I wanted a weather proof carrier because while camping it stays outside all the time. I also wanted it to be light weight and to have shelves. I like having my accessories right there, the table it sits on is small, not alot of room. Also storage in the camper is a premium, so small is key. So I made it with some stuff around the shop, mainly 3/16" aluminum plate. Alot heavier than needed, but it was here and readily available. Add some stainless hardware and here it is. The shelves are 3 position. They lock into place with quick pins and can be adjusted in a few seconds. Position one is folded up for carry, position two the shelves are folded out 90* to allow more ventilation while cooking if need be,and can carried or moved as well. The third position is the shelves opened. Finally got to use the the other night and fired it up, It worked great and cannot wait to get it in the woods.
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Nice setup. How heavy?
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The whole setup ( if my bathroom scale is correct) is 48.5 lbs. The egg itself is 38. So the carrier adds roughly ten pounds. I know I could save 30% in weight if I would have had 1/8" aluminum. It is surprisingly not that unwieldy with the weight. The handles make it really easy. Just the egg itself feels much heavier due to the fact you have power grab it to move it.
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Very nice. Looks very functional.Charlotte, NC - Large BGE 2014, Maverick ET 733, Thermopen, Nest, Platesetter, Woo2 and Extender w/Grid, Kick Ash Basket, Pizza Stone, SS Smokeware Cap, Blackstone 36"
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Well done. You could market those.
"Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community [...] but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots."
-Umberto Eco
2 Large
Peachtree Corners, GA -
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I like the collapsible wings! Fantastic work"The pig is an amazing animal. You feed a pig an apple and it makes bacon. Let's see Michael Phelps do that" - Jim Gaffigan
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Great job!
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That is flat-out ingenious!John in the Willamette Valley of Oregon
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Well done brother. That's very nice.
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Looks like the robot from Lost in Space
Danger! Danger!New Albany, Ohio -
New Albany, Ohio
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Damn fine fab work
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I like the robot comparison. I thought of naming the carrier the name of the lost in space robot since I watched that when I was a kid. I changed my mind after looking up the name in Wiki. It doesn't roll off the tongue...
- The B-9 Class M-3 General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot was a character in the television series Lost in Space...
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That carrier is cool! I would love to see some pictures of it without the egg in it.L x2, M, S, Mini and a Blackstone 36. She says I have enough now....eggAddict from MN!
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Impressively nice!
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Is the mini sitting directly on wood?
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No it is not sitting on wood. On the bottom of the front plate you can see the four acorn nuts, those are holding four aluminum sqaure tubes that the egg actually sits on. So there is plenty of ventilation for the egg. After I made it, I fired it up while sitting on that table to around 600* and let it go for about an hour tosee how hot the surrounding aluminum got, and wanted to see the amount of heat transfer to the wood below. It was better than expected. The aluminum was barely warm to the touch, and the wood was not hot enough that I could not set my hand on it below the egg at the draft vent. The aluminum had a better effect on heat dissapation than I expected. That table is nothing special, just pine and some poly on top and there was no heat damage at all with the hot cook and the ones after.
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Cool. can't see the aluminum on the bottom in the pics. I have an egg carten and the aluminum is really good at absorbing the heat I have cooked in the carten sitting on a attic table many times and not melted it. that's a really cool carrier.
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Thank you guys for all the nice comments.
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That's mother scratching awesome. I wish I had skillz like that!
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Really great work! You need to make/market these for minis and smalls. You could be rich...or something like that.Houston, Texas
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Awesome job!
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Terry
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Nice job!Wear maroon, live maroon, bleed maroon.
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Very nice. Now everyone is gonna want one.2-XLs ,MM,blackstone,Ooni koda 16,R&V works 8.5 gallon fryer,express smoker and 40" smoking cajun
scott
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