Equally Fitted

4 And thou shalt make for it a grate of network of brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brasen rings in the four corners thereof.

Exodus 27:4

The grate is a little harder to make but of course though when you're using it to build upon sand, it's just that much easier. Still though without the sands being solid you've got the potential for any shifting to bring about change in the casting. Thus, the casting model you've planned out might not be as entirely solid. Though when making the dishes to be used in the service, it's kind of hard to make say the inside of a teapot without having a mold there in play. In fact, have you considered at all making it out of modeling clay? The metal shouldn't be sufficient enough temperatures to cook the clay solid now should it at least not as far as glass has been formed. Clay if I recall requires some time in an oven and even that might come out as half baked or undone. Then supposing it doesn't immediately harden, it'll be safe to carve out there at the end. That is after the metals have sufficiently cooled from the molten condition or what was a liquid though not of course the kind that you're actually drinking. The trouble with the grate is that it'd need a few people to help lift this thing up given the somewhat solid construction and stuff. Of course, you could always vary it using thin little lines in the sand and that way the brass would be more runny and spread out almost like a fishermen's net all folded up without breaking at all or anything thus. That's what you'd call a good metal consumption, making the use of whatever was on hand while still allowing plenty to spare for a few other things that are needful. Though, likely the first method is how the four brasen rings got their start, needing sufficient enough weight to hold the grate well apart. You could always do something smaller and thinner much like the net from the start. Though there's problems with that method, one being the heat from the altar when the fire has been tended not allowing any to go out there instead. Imagine, starting a fire in that thing where the smoke will either cure the wood well and itself be a preservative factor or else be all burned up and leave only brass. Then the brass won't have any support being itself thin but of course which means it too will start to crumple up and possibly fold. When it comes to construction, our God has got everything well in his hands. There's a few more things though to see before we consider the weight in suspension and whether or not the brass rings will hold up well to the person. In fact, would repairs be needed every few hundred years or was the altar always in perfect condition just the way that it should. It's not natural you know that it's that way surely. Though when lifting up the grate into place, you'll need to hold it somewhere between you and arms length at a distance. That's because the dishes while heavy, can also be held and treasured close to the chest thereby increasing the weight you could carry. On the other hand, those bearing the altar likely would've been quaking or shaking meaning nothing good there to the whole. That's why when arms are fully outstretched as though trying to be rid of it thus at least before there was raised up a fuss meant that more people would've been required to lift as weight had decreased. That is to say, the weight you could carry.

Weight Carried

Means a lot

More when

Held close to the chest

As opposed to

Weight that is spread apart here all over the place

And aren't you tired just now of all that was said even though you hadn't done any work but just gone back to bed. In case you were wondering, the function of the brass ring is much more like an elbow or shoulder kept tight and locked in this thing thereby enabling all types of weight to be better borne then in full. That's not to say those particular joints haven't their breaking points just that these things function better that is to say as these things so often do perfectly aligned. Reasons for this have much to do with the shape of the square with the triangle being the sum of lesser inclusion in matters.