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I used 1" ceramic insulation. It works ok but I found out that 1" fiberglass panels would have been better.

I am starting to seriously consider building and selling some smokers but I am kinda worried about getting hut with a patent infringement if I do. Does anyone know what patents are out there for smoker designs? Backwoods says they are "Using a patented double wall construction" but haven't been able...

The machine is a Bridgeport mill, it is basically a glorified drill press which I how I was using it to turn a 1" drill at about 90 rpm and it is not mine. I was able to build this at work in my time off so I had access to the mill a Lathe 48" brake cold cut saw plasma cutter welder and lots of othe...

Is it bad that I already want to build another one? this time I am thinking of something like a 24" square uds kinda like he frankenque, or maybe an offset or maybe both. My wife is not gonna like this.

My current smoker is a UDS I built a few years ago and I love it but it just doesn't have the capacity I wanted so a few weeks I got a wild hare up my butt about building a new smoker and after leaving some drawings laying around for the wife to conveniently find she gave me the approval I decided o...

I would like to build my smoker to accept a BBQ guru without any adapters. I will be making a fitting on the lathe but i don't actually have a guru yet can someone tell me the diameter of the connector? or even better would be the inside diameter of the adapters.

I like the design. If only I had space in my garage to store it.

Does anyone know if the short wall in the back is really needed? I know it is there to bring heat and smoke from the firebox but wouldnt the spaces on the sides be enough? I am in the planning stages of one of these and would like to simplify things a little and save some cost and weight.

Any progress on these or is the real job still getting in the way?