New to this forum it appears to be really great

[TuscaloosaQ]

I found this forum while surfing the net last night at the refinery where I work I have been a master welder /fabricator for over 30 years working as a boilermaker out of the local union for years then as a rig welder in the refinery where I currently work. I now work for the refinery as a full time employee in operations and love it. I work 4 12 hour days then I am off 4 days. Just giving you a little background boring but there it is. Me and my son do fabrication work out of our shop he works full time and stays as "busy as a "gopher in soft dirt" and I work on my off days We built and are still adding to it a custom cooking trailer that I think is quite impressive. I have a couple of questions how do you post pics??? I would like to post some,we have built a few cookers in the last year and I would like to post some pics of them. Also I think we could do a good business of building cookers and selling them. I will say this and not to brag we do first class top notch work and take extreme pride in what we do. I will be the fisrt to say I do not have the market cornered on pit building and am looking foward to learning and getting ideas from other people we just enjoy doing it along with other fabrication. This I really need help with Paint and I know it exist. Where can I get top grade paint in different colors that can be sprayed on that is high temp. I see it on cookers but paint stores in Tuscaloosa Alabama are CLUELESS!!!!!!! Rattle cans will not do the job unless I am building a small cooker any help would be appreciated. You can see clearly I am no computer guru either Just a good ole country boy. God blesss you all and I promise my post will never be this long again it took me forever to type this.

[maccas66]

Welcome aboard WK!, don`t worry about your computer skills and how long it took to write!, it took me that long to read it!
with the posting of pic`s, I find Photobucket is the easiest to use!

[Gizmo]

Welcome TuscaloosaQ - (nice name BTW) Check out the thread on here that explains how to post pics - I'm with mac - Photobucket seams to work the easiest. Looking forward to your builds. As for finishes, I used powder coat on my last one (see Edgar is underway under reverse flow) - rated at 400 degrees - but not on firebox and cook chamber is insulated so it should be okay - at least it's worked for about 8 cooks so far with no problem.

[Frank_Cox]

Welcome TQ! just got your PM. Anyway, Glad to have you aboard and I know you will be happy here. We are all in search for better High temp paint sources. I think the best way is to get it online. I will be gathering some links soon and posting them on here. smokeone always comes along and posts the link for how to post pics But I got it this time LOL....
Click here for all the forum How To's

[The Czar]

...and ....ask away and we will try our best to help out!!!

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[TrailerBuilder]

[TuscaloosaQ]

Thanks for all of the replies,I once was told "you can not keep what you have unless you are willing to give it away" souds like a paradox doesn't it. I took it as any knowledge,help,or encouragement you should be more than willing to pass it along. I have worked in the metal trades for many many years and have seen a certain few that did not want to teach the younger guys. I personally think they were either job scared or just plum mean. Heck for me the way I saw it was the more they new the less everyone else had to do. Jest saying!!!!! Again thank's to all who replied

[Smokeone]

First off, WELCOME!
Some how I missed this post. Anyway, glad to have you around. The more minds, the more troulbe we can get into. ;) Dont be shy around here, jump right in. We will help if we can, or at least you can help us (me).
I see Frank stole my job , hahaha. Please post them pics, we love to see metal taking shape.