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In the process of designing a large rotisserie smoker. It will be 5’ wide with 5 double shelves on the carousel. I have used the Calculator to spec. Everything thing out. My question is the customer plans on running lump charcoal. If only running lump charcoal should the firebox be smaller? If the f...

Pete Mazz wrote: ↑

January 26th, 2021, 4:46 am

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This one was very cool.

Pete! That smoker is super cool!!

I like the idea of the clear coat. But that’s a lot work to get the metal perfect. ( could be my only one). Love the idea of linseed oil, probably wait till my next build that’s not insulated. Paint is always a good possibility! Crazy question not sure the correct place to post. I have not built a r...

Day 9 and 10

Lots of welding and grinding on the edge welds. Giving it a clean look.

Slam latch, side shelf.

Thoughts on finish? Clear coat? something other than paint??

dacolson wrote: ↑

January 24th, 2021, 6:49 pm

Are you planning on running a pit fan/controller?


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Running a FireBoard 2, fan set up.

Day 7 and 8

Welding grinding repeat! Working doors and hanging them!

Day 6 of build

Building doors and door curbs.

Day 5 of the build.

Legs! Shoes! Top!

Top is 5’ off the ground! Lowest rack is 3’ off the ground!

If I ever get a chance to build mine I'm going to add a tube to run my probes through. I just think it's a cleaner look while cooking and you don't have to worry about damaging any of the probe wires. I did. I bored a hole through the interior cook chamber skin, and through the side of the pocket t...

Day 4 Stuffing with insulation, building control box, adding drain and putting skin on the smoker. Question: Thoughts on running cook chamber temperature prob and meat probs : 1 run probs between the door and gasket or 2 putting a separate tube running from the cook chamber to the control box. To co...

Day 3

Putting in rack styles. Welding up inside! Sliding in gravity feed unit. Adding insulation.

It was a good day!

Day 2



Working on cook camber.

Day 1 Mini gravity feed + 6”. Much time was spent stuffing sq tube with insulation. The frame is up side down in the pics. That cross member on top is in the wrong place and had to be moved. the same mistake was made when I built a dp gravity feed. 🤷‍♂️ at least I was consistent in miss reading plan...

Saskattak wrote: ↑

November 13th, 2020, 11:32 pm

Well any answers to my build have been answered lol. How did I only just find this now?!?

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Well if you come up with any questions, I can try to answer.

Day 15

Grease drain moved.

Expand steel add to smoker cart.

Temp gauge added.

All welding Done.


Ash pan build.

Stuff left to do! Clean up and paint.

Day 12 Warmer latch: This should of been easy! But, did but didn’t plan out correctly. The plan was too use latch’s from the essential kit. These are super cool looking latches. The type of latches found on the Mack smoker. I fabricated warming racks and warming shelf early in the build, not too the...

Day 11. Putting shoes on smoker! Should of been easy! Haha! That means extra work. Caster and caster mounting brackets look good, holes match up! Crap can’t find the correct nut bolt combo in the shop. So what Found a couple sizes bigger. I think 1/4 to 7/16 no big deal, not running to the store for...

Better view of counter weight arms. Designed by Frank Cox.

Let’s call this day 10. Many day spent on the cook chamber door. Cook chamber door fit to cook chamber! Putting trim on outside of cook chamber! Hinge put on cook chamber and counter weight tacked in place. Cook chamber rack slides tacked in. Warmer door installed! Firebox door trimmed done. Cart fo...

Cook chamber door finally matches cook chamber. Try to picture this! ( I will try to get a pic) The top edge of the cook chamber door and cook chamber. The top corners looking at it. Left corner 1/16 gap. Right corner a 1/32 gap. 6” out from left corner 1/8 gap. 6” out from right corner 1/16 gap. Th...

I have never seen the cut/weld clamp method—definitely looks like a lot of work and is fairly destructive to nice clamp. Appreciate you sharing the new idea. I found this trick on another forum. I would only recommend this if others attempts fail. If fact I was ready to put square doors on. I had l...

Days and days and days cook chamber door! Damn OCD! Days spent chain and jack. Pipe clamps! Lifting that door up and down! Cut some pipe clamps. Weld the door in placed! Welded pipe clamps in place. Pulled door in place plus some to Match tank. Heated the crap out of the door!! Let it cool over nigh...

Thanks for the information! I may have to check that book out.

Been working with cook chamber door 3 days.
Cook camber doors is straight. Cook tank has a hump it! It’s close to .25 “ in the middle! Take a look at pics!

thoughts?

Just curious how you over compressed the door. Was it with the several funiture clamps that you showed in the picture? Just using the pipe clamps with a hammer! Just slow moved the clamps in. I need to compressed by 1/4 “. 1st pull moved the edge 18.25” to 17.75” which = 1/8” compression. 2 Pulled ...