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Making a little progress on small stuff, welded up my FB grate today at lunch. For now, I am going to leave side off it. Due to the round tank in the back of the FB, I don't ahve enough expanded metal to make a complete basket, so this way will work. I also made up the rack rails for the CC, and cut...

me neither, but i wasn't going to pay that for it. All of the metal suppliers around here have gone away from letting you pick thru there scrap, the one place that would, said they would have to charge about $50 for the paperwork, so basicly making it to the point that you have to just buy all your ...

- Thanks for all the great feedback. My buddie is great at welding, I'm pretty good at designing once I understand what is needed. (design stuff for work )

- The stack is 3x5 rectangular tube. a Ø4" id pipe was about $90 for the lenght we needed. around $40 for the 3x5.

I brought mine home today. It still needs some more work, but is mostly there.
My buddy is deviating from the plan, going to do the front of the fire box differently. Should work out well.
Also, scored a load of apple wood.

Now that would go over great at EAA.

Thanks guys, you all have been a big help, we are going to try and have my smoker done other than painting by next friday. so..... I need to see what kind of wood I need to find.

Ok, I'll be finishing up my smoker soon. What I want to know is what types of wood should I use to fire it? The wood we have available in the area that I can get easily are: Oak, Hickory, Maple, apple, then just plain old campfire wood (poplar, pine, ect.....) I know you should use nut/fruit trees. ...

Love those small cut off dic's . I went thru 6 of them on Friday cutting 2 fire box tanks for my build with my buddie.

I like it, I like it alot. Looks great. What kind of paint did you use?

Anyone, How much paint would one of these need? 1 pint, 1 quart? I'am thinking 2 coats would be needed. Any input would be helpful. Thinking of using por15 black velvet or there new high temp paint. Overall tank dim. is Ø19" x 52", plus firebox,etc....
Thanks

Put in a long day on Friday at my buddie's. We got both smokers to about the same point. They are not welded together yet, but we have them sitting all together. HAve some fitment issues to grind on yet, but we are getting closser. The plasma cutter wasn't working real well, so we had to use cut off...

Thanks Big T

Paint question, anybody have a good way of figuring out how much I need? would 1 quart be to much? how many cans of rattle can paint? Ok, I have read all the threads in the paint section, still confused on brands. I live in NE Wisconsin, so it is cold in the winter. need something that will take the...

FB door is finished welding. That took a bit. All the rest of my stuff will be with Mig now. Buddy got the tanks cut, FB entry to CC tank is cut, just has to do the chimney cut outs.

Final welds on the firebox opening. Now to take home and put in the pile of stuff until the tank comes home.

Big T , I feel like your SIG. Measure 2x, cut 3x.

Cut the chimneys during lunch. In my huring, one is the correct length, the other is about 3" long. Is that a big deal? If not, don't really want to take the time to recut.

This should help, it is a screen shot of the base without the skin on the firebox. This fits below the CC. The reason I went with a round back half of the FB is that we had a 3rd tank, and could save cost on the extra metal. Could have gone either way, but the budget is tight. it will be interesting...

I got part of the entrance to the FB tacked today. The overall frame I did earlier this week. hopefully tomorrow, I will be able to finish the frame portion. Once the 3rd tank is cut for the FB, it will be welded with this entrance area to a 1/4" plate on top of the caster supports, insulated and wr...

Just found out how my buddie got the lines so straight. Also, these thanks are thick, 0.200" Not sure if that is standard or not, but they should hold some heat.

The tanks got opened up.

I started the Firebox internal parts, My TIG welding on fillet joints is not so good. another co-worker has a MIG welder at home that he will let me borrow. I will see how that goes, maybe start on it some more next week.

Finished up the caster to base tubing welds, They are a little better, but I still need more practice.

Those look pretty good. Now I know what the tanks are called.