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And for a comparison, in my corner of the country the double pan came to about $1600 all laser cut

pr0wlunwoof wrote:Anyone got any tips for welding the cook chamber door on? I was thinking about laying it on it's back, but it's getting pretty heavy.

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I used 4 pipe clamps on my double pan. My door was around 200 pounds and was a pain in the back, literally.

I have been using an UDS for almost 10 years, so he is my .02$ If you properly build an UDS, one basket can last very long time. My basket uses a charcoal grate from a weber grill and has expanded metal for the side. I have had it smoking almost nonstop for about 40 hours on a basket of charcoal. As...

Looks great.

The first thing I thought of, was my wife would love something like this to be used as a wood burning wok.

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Miketheforester wrote:Judging by your picture we are eating a horse?

Cooked low and slow with the right rub; horse might not be too bad.

I had horse meat in Switzerland, it would need more then that, lol.

Well' I managed to get the doors on, I still need to do the latches.

I couldn't wait to give it a try so I'm seasoning it now

Here is a live link to the heatermeter, staying perfectly at 300. Love it all ready

http://myuds.servebeer.com/luci

Cole wrote:Looks awesome. What controller and fan u gonna use?

Thanks, going to use an heatermeter with an RD25 damper. The blower will have up to 28cfm, so its should be plenty.

Well, I'm getting to the point of putting the doors on and I have a question of what's the best way to clamp them on. Straps, or I was thinking of getting some wood and using the pipe clamps to clamp the wood across the top of the smoker. Also, my main door weighs over 180 pounds. I had it clamped t...

Hi all - This maybe captured somewhere, but I didn't see it anywhere. I'm contemplating diving into building the mini GF but a little concerned if I have the right tools to do it right. I've got the following: - millermatic 211 mig welder - angle grinder - lots of clamps and squares and levels - ba...

That's a lot of steel.

I too, well until they could not find them and they plasma cut them instead, the Firefox parts. Then a couple weeks later while picking up another batch of steel they gave me the missing laser cut parts. I wish I had waited for them, boy were they nicely cut.

Thanks everyone, welding it will be

Rodcrafter wrote:I would weld it.

Thanks

John

If you are spatcocking, I don't think it really matters if you even brine it. The brine is ment to keep the chicken from drying out. The whole concept of sptcocking is to eliminate the difference of white meat and dark meat finishing at different times and making the whole bird cook evenly. I can se...

I have question that I'm not sure how to proceed. The front exterior panel on the firebox, can this be welded or should it be screwed on. I see some people screwing theirs on. I will be adding a 6x6 inch cutout for a place to put my controller and that will be wired with a Cat5 cable. I guess, if I ...

Smoke some cheese and salt. Great weather for cold smoking

Well its been a while since my last post and I have been busy, granted most of my work is done between the hours of midnight and 2am, I'm almost finished, think. I did redo the door as my first try warped to help and so I upgraded to 11 gauge sheet metal and the 2nd time is nice and flat. So here ar...

Nice table, but I hope you don't drop anything, your toes may not survive, lol.

I saw that table while searching for tables, but my wife would kill me if I made one. So I had to settle with HF folding tables.

I have the same corner clamps, 3 of them in fact and found they are hard to keep a 90 be angle when you start welding the tubing. The tubes tend to twist some as the flats are not really the flat. I finally stopped using them altogether, as I was kinda lucky as my work had an scrap aluminum thermofo...

Eeny wrote:My biggest fear in life is my wife selling my stuff after I'm gone for what I told her I paid for it!

My wife would give it away for free.

If you don't plan on going over 200°f then I guess cementboard would be ok. Looking at the manufacturers PDF they say not to be installed in places over 200°. I would think it would become brittle over time

Look into making a heatermeter. They are fairly easy to solder, come in a kit form or you can source everything yourself or have someone build one. Heatermeter 3 meat probes 1 pit Thermocouple WiFi Apps Android-pitdroid and a Apple app. Can use Maverick and thermoworks probes K-thermocouple for the ...

I have less than $800.00 in my mini but the only steel I purchased was angle iron,tubing and sheeting but I also cut all my own material. In my opinion your better off cutting your own sheeting when it comes time to skin your smoker as I'm sure many can attest to things don't always go as planned a...

I purchased all laser cut steal for my double pan and was between $1400 and $1600. I had to redo the door so that added another $215 for 11 gauge sheet and 14 gauge tubes all laser cut. And I need to add another $45 for some angle iron that was not in the plans. Call multiple places, as I found pric...

Has anyone tried to use a Heatermeter or any other digital control to regulate airflow/temperature in their reverse flow? If so can you give me a rundown of fan/cubic Feet Per minute etc on your setup. Thanks, There are alot of variables that can come into play if an Temp controller will work or no...