Sunday, 3 May 2015

(AW) Building the Mini Max

I thought I would share some of the hints/tips/notes from doing a home build on the BGE Mini Max.

Point 1. The instructions from BGE are a bit rubbish as they don't use any language to explain anything. Only pictures, which keeps cost low from a publishing point of view (no multiple languages etc.) but its a pain when your trying to work out what they mean.

Point 2. The bands assembly calls for 2 types of bolt and 2 types of nut. This is incorrect for what was shipped. The 2 bolts are present (silver and green) BUT only 1 type of nut is supplied, the dome hex headed nut with flange. So don't spend ages looking for the missing nuts. They are replaced by these!




Point 3. The red packing pieces are there to get the correct distance between the top and bottom band. That is it as far as I can tell. The instructions tell you to place them between the lid and the bottom dome, but not why. Well now you know!


Point 4. The supplied spanner will fit the small dome headed nuts on the band.......

and the big nuts on the band tension bolts - but that it it. 


You will need an 11mm opened ended/ring spanner for the  bigger dome hex headed nots on the bands.


But other than that it was a simple build, with no missing bits or ill-fitting bits.


Time to fire her up and give it the inaugural cook...

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