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The internal temp was on the coolest set of ribs was at 193. I dont wrap them at all. I know they are done and when I attempt to cut them apart they fall apart and off the bone. I didnt take pictures but will when I heat up the left overs. It may be that I needed to let them cook longet but the temp...

Baby backs I cooked today turned out very red or dark pink. The wife said that that they look raw. They turn out light pink with a good smok ring and normal cooked pork color on the inside, but this time they look dark pink threw and threw. Any ideas on why. I ran them for 4 hrs at about 225 to 250.

http://i34.servimg.com/u/f34/13/04/62/49/image13.jpg This is what I was getting when I used all wood and had to keep the intake damper closed down to get the temps to stay below 250! They were tender and moist so they are not burned, they just got a little extra smokie!!! My nwife told me they were...

You will love a small smoker fornthe ease of cooking for the family. Time for me to start looking on the pickups with scrap on them. That would be perfect for the back yard. My pull behind is a small 80 gal and I would love to build a charcole grill for the other side of my trailer from one this siz...

That is one sweet rig. Very close to what I want mine to be. The onlymthingmwith mine is that I haven't put a shelf on it and there is nowhere to set stuff while you are cooking. I plan to build one that folds down and swings out to 90 deg so I can have it to my side.

I got a buddy uaing it in his BGE and he loves it. I also have a friend in the BBQ Buisness that is getting some Wholesale that is put out by Cysco that he said is lagge chunks and not construction waste! he is going to get me a bag of that to try as well. I think it comes in 20 lb bags.

last ribs I did with the lump. Not so black and smokey. Still got a great smoke flavor but not too much.

Ok I have run it two more times for about 6 hrs each. It is hard to try and control the temps and the smoke at the same time with all wood. So I got me some Lump and used it and it seems to burn longer and without the large amounts of smoke at a constant temp. I get about 1 to 2 hrs depending on how...

Well the wife said the ribs are the best I have ever cooked! Not too much smoke to me either. The first burn down does give a good bed of coals, but they are gone as I slow down adding wood to keep the temps down. The end of the burn last night I did find a setup for the dampers that allow me to add...

The plates are flush against each other and there is a strip that overlaps the one beside it. So you are correct there is no gap at all. I have 1 inch catwalk for the fire grate and there doesn't seem to be a good bed of coals much at all. When I start it up the initial smokeis heavy, and when it st...

Well this is the second time I have run it andi can't get the light smoke that seems to be the trick with out the temps running near 300 in the cook tank. I want to just use wood and not charcoal to fire the smoker. I'm using oak that's a year old and in the dry for 6 months. I have split it down to...

Well got it :help: to a point to run it. Got it scrubbed and cleaned out so there is no oil on the inside. Coated it with cooking spray and fired it up. Three hrs and I have used a fire starter full of tree turds and enough oak to fill a 5 gag bucket. Temps running from 200 to 252 depending on the d...

No got the opening on the stove door.about 1x3 over all.

Yes it is the round thing on the bottom door. It doesn't have much of an opening now, but I plan to open it up more. It is the size of a coke can. I plan to make the bottom 2 doors one door with a larger opening. For sure it's not enough flow into the fire box. http://i44.servimg.com/u/f44/13/04/62/...

Looks like Im gonna have to open up more intake area. The opening on the Stove Door isnt enough. Fire goes out :oopssign: ! so the round damper on the bottom is going to have to be opened up. it has 4 3/16 holes under it now. Im gonna open them up to get as big of an opening as I can under the disk....

Feel free. I put them on before the stacks went in. They work as a stop as well as a hinge. Only problem so far is when it isn't level (leaning towards me) the door will slam closed. So in gonna take a little off of the hinge where it meets the cook chamber top so the door lays back a little more. I...

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I havent seen any others with inside hinges. They work great but took a whole lot of head scratching to figure out. Just got to be a little different. ;)

http://i44.servimg.com/u/f44/13/04/62/49/cook_c10.jpg Front view. http://i44.servimg.com/u/f44/13/04/62/49/cook_s10.jpg Still need to make some handels for the doors. http://i44.servimg.com/u/f44/13/04/62/49/front_10.jpg Where the Magic happens. http://i44.servimg.com/u/f44/13/04/62/49/inside10.jpg...

Well I got my computer back to working properly. here are some pics of the last few weeks progress.

Got some done today. Welding in the end of the baffle into the bell of the tank. Got the handel for the fire box damper installed. Changed the rotten fender and put one on the other side. Leveled the Smoker on the trailer because when I put it on the first time it was out by an inch right to left. O...

Sounds like a Plan. Thanks for the quick answer.

OK I settled on 4 inch Squair Stacks. 12 inches on the inside of the R/F and in nthe top of the Offset. Conna put dampers in both to be able to run one or the other or both. How much Stack needs to be above the tank? I guess Im asking do you count whats inside the tank as part of the cook Chamber or...

It is a totally different tank. It was going to the dump from work! This unit will have two five inch stacks. One to set it up for reverse flow that is sunk in to about an inch above the grate level and a second on the other end of the tank so it can be used as an offset. The offset stack will be op...

Frank_Cox wrote:Looks great! nice hinges. was that an air compressor tank?

Yes it was an air tank. I will get a pic of one in action. the metal on it is 3/16 so it should hold heat good. Oh and you have a PM.