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I rebuilt the coal box and it's amazing at what that has done burns hotter faster now I have just few coals in the bottom of the basket as I'm tiring to maintain 225 and about 30 to 50 dgree from end to end of cooker cc temp swings 210 ish to 230ish is this all to bigg of a swing and difference do I...

don't eat it before I get to taste it and make sure it suitable for human consumption

Ok don't mean to babble but let me see if I have some of the pieces of the puzzle in place We should be able to cook at any pre determined temp consistently given the fact that we put the time in and figure out that this particular cooker runs at 200 with the damper in this position and put this amo...

Merry Christmas to everyone

looks great

40 gal is at 101.8% so I should be good there I did open up the bp from 1" to 1.5" which took the bp opening from around 17" to around 24" seems to have helped some fire box opening is 27sq" so 17 may have been a bit small Ok so all that aside for the moment where can I find the definition of the sw...

Good info here for a future build

Thanks great info learned a lot first time around hope to make this one even better Some of the reasons I ask is I have only been able to get the 40 up to about 300 the other thing is recovery it doesn't recover very well seemingly but maybe I need to open up bp too I just hate to mess with anything...

Ok got the 40 gal cooking but think I should have done some things different so gonna pass these thoughts by everyone and see what y'all think ok the 40 gal build the fire box was right at 100% was like 14x14x16 so I. Thinking it should have been a bit larger seems I read where really would be bette...

Scottie beam a plate over to blue catfish

Thank you I think it looks better like this

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Thanks for the input everyone had trouble with temps today wind blowing but was able to get it smoked gave it a good flavor wasn't perfect but had lots worse

Yes it is that is a short disposable propane tank what is it one pound

That's what my goal would be is to get some smoke flavor

I think the fellas at work was funnin on me building a Smoker they had to get in on it

What about cooking a ham in the rf smoker of course any thoughts

I'm not that tall but it seemed to be a good all around height

42 1/2" to the bottom of the round bar

First attempt to post a pic

Thanks dcman now I know it actually happened and I wasn't just dreaming