Stove top Reinforcement

[jog666]

Not to long ago I decided it was just to cold to stay out in the barn working. The frozen water hoses didnt help either. Inside I went, with a keg & a couple pieces of stainless square tubing to act as a spacers. For years I knew the stove had a slight angle to the rear, but didnt realized how much until I put the keg & column on. Oh well, Ill deal with it. While filling to about half, so I can see what kind of time its going to take to run, I tweaked the whole top of the stove.

After finishing that run, I welded up some 1" stainless angle to make a "base" for the keg to sit on. Also picked up a 1/2 keg (7.75g) during the 2 weeks to finish this {have to slip government work in between jobs at work}. Then took some 2" SS angle with 4"x4"x.25" pads to lift the angle to clear the stove lip. Drilled a few holes for 7/16" bolts since it would be very oddly shaped to store somewhere. Overall, I really like it. I could have done much better but I had only so much time to get it finished & was already over on time.

Other than a bit more cleaning, its ready to run.

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