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HA! Considering what we're fabricating now-a-days that little guy looks like a fart in a hurricane!

noXcuse check out the Eli thread in the RF department on here to see how I "ripped" that 3" roxul. It works pretty easy. I got a used up band saw blade from one of the local steel shops that they were going to throw out. A 4 foot hunk of that makes a great "insulation saw"

109.683% plus or minus a furlong here …..

Sheeeesh!

Egor was 3/16 and it works fine. Most guys go 1/4 inch though.

I'm more familiar with the pit calc on this site. Have you used that one?

GRAVITY SUCKS! ….. and sometimes that's a good thing…..

Just play with the calculator - you can't hurt it. Start by entering your CC dimensions and guess at the rest. It will tell you what direction to change to so that you come up with the correct combination of numbers.

I think I used that same trailer for Egor. I built the entire rig and left the spring shackles until last so I could position the axle. I put the rig down on the floor with a 2 X 4 across underneath the frame where I thought the axle should be and a bathroom scale under the ball socket at the tongue...

Earl made a real handy sized cooker for a buddy of mine - but yours would be even better!
Take a look at his thread for an idea what to do with that tank. I think those dimensions would make a better small CC than FB anyway. imho

Everything I cook is something special…..

See what I did there?

I always figured its a damn miracle its fit for human consumption …..

Welcome to the grown-up table! And the forum!

Love the theme builds. :kewl: You could run a steel rod down the center hole of several cyclinders - like stringing pearls - but space them out about the same gap between as they are long. Bend both ends of the rod and weld it to the door to form a very interesting handle. Any leftover sylinders cou...

I would attend DC's class on the proper methods for foiling grits!

I'm at 2200 feet altitude and I always use a 1" gate valve for air inlet on the verticals in addition to a "Start up" gate at about 8 sq. inches to get things going. For normal cooking on an RF or end-fed you'll want even more so plan on it. Your altitude air density can be completely eliminated by ...

that's a good lookin smoker there

Have you read the 'Night Light" thread I did on Egor?
That's still the best way I know of to eliminate the need for a Guru.
I'm not sure how lucky I got but I suspect ANY cooker that's well sealed could do that.
fwiw

Puff from what I've seen here on the forum I have to say 2 things: 1) Guru's are cool, most of the time the users seem to enjoy them for a few months (burns) and then they get lazy and don't use them anymore. It's because they discover that once they get onto how each cooker works, they realize they...

Nice!
CRS maybe move this thread to the theme builds?

YEAH! What Frank said….

Grab some 5/8" all-thread and a couple 5/8" nuts. Try welding the nuts (with the rod already threaded through them) to a panel and a couple tabs to the rod that are welded to another panel then when you swing the 2 panels the nuts actually travel through the thread slightly over the 90 degree travel...

I don't know of any problem with the seam being in the door other than aesthetics but some of the fellows here that have cut more tanks than me might think otherwise.

I wouldn't trust the seam when a straightedge will do.
I like the firer ope stuck to the door so it will swing out of the way when I'm putting in/out grates and such. Just seems safer for the seal.

Congrats on the build! :kewl: Welcome to the group. :welcome: I've heard water swirls the other direction going down the drain in the southern hemisphere but I've always wanted to know; since you're in the southern hemisphere do you have to put the meat on the bottom of the grate or does it go on th...

I asked that same question several years back. They just told me that the other numbers didn't work so "we use these" …