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ABBOV your hing design will work great i made my hinges exactly like yours here is how mine turned out. Also this design allows you to install a hidden door stop in the hinge on the CC side notice how i have the back plate on the 2 vertical pieces i notched a V in this and adjusted the notch so the ...

I did think about putting a piece of plate on the firebox door with an 1/4-1/2 inch air gap but that was allot more work then moving the stoker to the outside. I may still try it but ehhh. For the flames traveling under the baffle i don't really think so. I don't have huge fires in the fire box and ...

it is 11/4 in threaded pipe. It did it before the stoker i have 1/4 thick plate for my baffle plate. Pete it does it the full length of the smoker. i should point out that when i run the smoker at 250-260 it does not seem to do it anywhere in the smoker. can the draft be to strong causing hotter air...

Yea i decided i needed a little bigger one.. I have lots more pics.. The stoker was well worth the money it has really helped burn all my fuel. and it reduced the overall amount of fuel use and lengthened the time between adding more fuel. I have no problems with excess smoke as i tend to burn small...

Thought i would provide an update on this.I have had several cooks on it and it was running like a champ without the stoker but when i installed the stoker is was that much better i love it i got the big one the 25CFM and it works great!! I noticed i do have about a 15-25 degree difference between e...

so your saying you would put it on the Cook chamber side right not the FB door side.

Oh ok that sounds awesome.

I really like the Hog brackets, also are you worried at all with the cleanliness of wooden handle? What about the longevity of life for the wood rotting. I did a bracket on each side on mine and put a 1/2 inch diameter 2 inch long tab on each bracket and put a galvanized 1 1/2 inch pipe for a handle...

No i didn't yet havent decided if i want the nippple under the CC on the back of the Fire box or on the door. I should be able to drill the hole without messing up the paint to bad. I will have paint left over for touchups. I was thinking it would be best to have it on the FB door because the flow o...

i used muratic acid on mine "bio degradable". get a plastic spray bottle and a 20 dollar 3m respirator and spray for about an hour on and off just keeping the metal moist you will know when to spray. then rinse with a waterhose it will be shiny clean then once all the acid is rinsed out coat with co...

Well here we are yesterday me my son and my neighbor got this bad boy loaded onto my trailer to take it to the painter. I decided to have somone paint it that knows what they are doing LOL. It is being painted with a base prep coat and a minimum of 4 coats of paint that is supposed to handle 2000 de...

Here it is cooking i think i got a pretty thin blue smoke the door is cracked and the stack is wide open. I have no air openings in the firebox because i am going to install a stoker system on it. But it runs just fine with the door cracked. IMG_20160411_182308.jpg IMG_20160411_182334.jpg IMG_201604...

now for the piece de-resistance the test fire. It was a huge success within 45 mins the smoker was up to 255 degrees with only 1/2 a chimney of charcoal and 4 small 8 in long by 4 inch wide 1/4 split logs. Then after about a total of 1.5 hours i added 2 x 14 in long 1/4 split logs. and it climbed to...

ok all i have a crap ton of pics to post basically i have been working as i could but not posted pics. Today i took the smoker to the painter. The pics are pretty self explanatory here we go

thanks for the kind words I'll get better pics up tomorrow i now have it welded in about to start the fire box. The firebox will be round 30" in dia and 25" long. I am thinking of making the top of the fire box flat to set stuff on and create/match the 1/2 moon shape of the throat opening better. I'...

Hello Everyone, It has been a little while since my last post life has gotten in the way :-)... I thought i would post some recent pic's where I completed and installed the baffle plate. Just a few details I used 1/4" plate and cut it down the middle just off center (to line up the drain hole) and a...

Hello Ras, First let me say that i am no expert ok but here is what i have learned any 230V wire welder will work especially welding less than 1/4 inch thick steel. You will want to use .035 Flux core or if your using gas with it use non-Flux. To your original question about door cutting with an ang...

Hello all Thought i would post pics of the work completed this weekend. I wanted to work on something a little easier today so i started fabrication on the cook racks and the finished the fab on the Food Prep shelf that will run along the front of the smoker. 20150315_131918_resized.jpg 20150315_141...

It surprised me that i had not seen any mention about this method to clean rusty pipe on any other post, maybe folks will see this and think wow that is a novel idea. Not to mention the cost savings look below. 1 Gallon of Muratic Acid was $8 dollars vs. one flapper wheel $14 dollars. The pipe is 30...

Hello all here is another update, Got the inside pretty darn clean, after contemplating how to do this and save my back, i choose too use my brain. I went and bought a bottle of full strength Muratic Acid, and coated the inside with that. It took a total of about 2 hours with beer in hand to apply c...

one more question how long does the 7" 36 grit for carbon last?

so silly question what is a 36 grit for carbon, is that one of those metal diamond wheels i see at Lowes, or is that just a bigger flapper at a rougher grit? The lowest i have seen is 60 grit at Lowes