It's a scale model, print out, cut out and fold along lines!
Or take the bit of paper to a steel shop and get them to cut it out, then weld together. It's all to help others make their own smokers of the same design.
Great CUT TICKET Pete! (at least that's what we used to call them) The solidworks image really brings it to life too.
A thought: you might think about bringing the top panel out even with the top of the 45 degree opening - only because edging/sealing the door for a good fit is a lot easier - then again you may have thought about that already so I'll shut up now ….
Also, is the extension I see below the CC the FB that stays behind when you slide the top over to the pick-up bed?
And on the eighth day God created barbecue …. because he DOES love us and he wants us to be happy.
Current smokers: Egor (trailered RF) and Easybake (tabletop pellet drive)
The door starts at the top, down the sloped surface and down the front, so the edge/seal will be on the flat surfaces. My logic is, if I managed to make the cheap offset seal so well with fibreglass strip and cam latches, surely this will seal too!
The cooking chamber is going to sit on a trolley, similar to yours. Im not going to do warming cupboards, im going to have empty space either side, so it will be kind of T shaped. The idea is you roll it up to the back of the truck and push the cooking chamber off into the truck, then the trolley/firebox section will be light enough for two people to lift in. I have designed the shape of it so it fits in the back of the truck perfectly. My truck is quite small compared to your monsters (but will carry over a ton of weight in the back and will two 3.5 tons and only has a 2.5ltr engine, sooooooo)
Also I should mention im gonna build this entire thing with TIG welding only. In my day to day life I build little delecate things so TIG is all I know.
Got it!
So is there a frame out from the FB to give the whole assembled rig a stable base?
And on the eighth day God created barbecue …. because he DOES love us and he wants us to be happy.
Current smokers: Egor (trailered RF) and Easybake (tabletop pellet drive)
Pretty much a firebox on wheels, but yes it does extend outwards to give me somewhere to put stuff. Im not sure yet but I thnk im going to put some rails on the firebox to help slide the firebox onto, so the trolley might be I shaped (imagine a traditional capital I)
And on the eighth day God created barbecue …. because he DOES love us and he wants us to be happy.
Current smokers: Egor (trailered RF) and Easybake (tabletop pellet drive)
Just started welding together, off to a flying start by welding two if the wrong pieces together. Now having to cut along the weld so I can do it again. Very frustrating.
When you're feeling really stupid just put a pair of pliers in your back pocket and walk around the shop for an hour looking for them - at least that's how I do it…
And on the eighth day God created barbecue …. because he DOES love us and he wants us to be happy.
Current smokers: Egor (trailered RF) and Easybake (tabletop pellet drive)
Been doing more today. Cut the corners off and fitted the slope. There's a fairly serious metal mismatch, which the grinder will fix. Welding is hard caus I use tig and this thing is huge, I'm having fun though.
Been cleaning up welds today with a flap disk. Looks nice. Some areas I won't be able to do this too though caus it's a flat butt seam, so if I grind off the weld, there will barely be anything holding the join together. With this weld though there was a deep groove that I filled up nicely and as you can see, the heat penetrated properly.
Looking good, now I have another 30M or so of welding. Looking forward to it.