http://preview.tinyurl.com/3f9t85y originally bought as a stand for my lapto, but works as a bbq grill  For two quid, it's not bad at all, though you do have to cut 'n' chip tha plastic covering off first. 200mm wide x 470mm long x 180 mm high. perhaps slightly short, unless you have a small fire / ember bed.
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 >you do have to cut 'n' chip tha plastic covering off first
Obviously being an elitist bourgeoisie moneybags might it not be better to spend an extra £5 and buy the right tool for the job in the first place?
http://bit.ly/jIhqA8
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 I love this kind of stuff and I'm interested in having a look, but can't get to the image. Do you have a live link? Cheers.
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Nice work, Wolfticket! i couldn't get an image... and as for you, Mesieur le Bed-ooiun, hav you no sympathy for the plastic-chippers? they, too, have extrusions to look after.... 
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 Lob that bugger in a fire, give it a few whacks and the coating is gone. That's how i'd do it anyway, cack handed sod that i am. 
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to clarify, it's a wire shelf with legs that fold out, rather than a grillpan have got a foldable bbq and messing about trying to make a grilliput-like thing from a telescopic broom handle and bicycle spokes...and maybe a square one from a wheely suitcase handle...and maybe another from copper tubing. Would love to have the skillls & tools to make one of tensioned steel wire, like a retractable washing line
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The coating might be gone but what other nasties remain? hardly a food grade implement is it!
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 I'd be in the "set fire to it" camp, too. Chipping sounds excruciatingly tiresome.
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The grill tops on disposable bbq's should be big enough and soft enough to cut/form into something suitable I reckon. I'm trying to think of something so that I can poach, I mean GRILL, trout on. 8] Doesn't have to be that technical either (which normally adds weight imo). Maybe fold the edges over for strength and use a cheap tent peg in each corner that could be bent into hooks to suspend it. Just thinking aloud here. Might actually have a go to see if it works at all.
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have also scavenged some disposable bbq grillls is fun making stuff!
for a trout, i'd be inclined to rig up a tripod/hanger like ray mears....they can fall apart  trying to think of a way to support the grill without it slipping down the pegs...suppose you could angle them at an ,er, angle. tesco do a fish basket grill with a handle: reckon you could support that with a post and hook/tent peg arrangement. had an exellent firebowl from an abandoned frying pan last year...found a saw, too, just lobbed in the bushes! and for all you pyro's.... chipping might be boring, but burning is poisonous, ya wreckers!
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 I think I'd go with a cake cooling rack. It's what I used to make a split-level BBQ many years ago. Probably just as light. Now, if you want lightweight, then the Ti spoke & drilled Ti tube system if probably best. And it all packs away into a small diameter tube.
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It just occurred to me - does a bbq actually need a stand? A small shallow pit could be dug (an old knife would do the job) and just lay the grill on top? Dead easy to push the dirt back, or lay a turf, then just tread it down. Just a thought.
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good way to do it Mr Nonstick As long as it's not in peat, or cutting through too many tree roots etc. Any probs with airflow?
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