dacolson wrote: ↑January 2nd, 2021, 1:41 pmHere’s a pic of what I did. I spent some time listening to Frank Cox’s podcasts and did some looking at what professional pit builders are doing and decided on a Jambo stile throat baffle. It redirects the heat and smoke directly up to the top of the pit. According to Frank, the standard offset cooks by convection - the air connects down the CC. Redirecting the heat up to the top of the pit as soon as possible protects that end of the pit and accelerated the convection process. This pit has a 50° spread right to left. I had it at 35° during my heat tests but mileage varies I guess. I sold this and confirmed with the new owner it is 50°ish for him too.
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Try 36" and see how it goes; while everything is involved in how well a pit drafts, stack length and section tend to matter more than the rest
These plate can be of different size or you want to keep the convection heatings on the wall of the drum tank?dacolson wrote: ↑July 29th, 2020, 6:32 pmMankussm has a pic in his current build thread: http://www.smokerbuilder.com/forums/vie ... =11&t=7581
Most of the way to the bottom of the first page of the thread. He calls it a ghost plate but it’s the same idea.