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[gmbbq]

Hello, Guys and Gals!

I'm new here and but not all that new to BBQ smoking. What I am new to is an unfinished project that I recently purchased. I've been smoking meats and whatever else you can think of, going on three years now, and still learning. I live in Oklahoma with my wife and 2 boys. You can call me Paul, gmbbq, Smokey, or whatever fits, it works for me. I chose my forum handle name because by trade I am Certified GM Master Technician and love BBQ'n. So I joined the two to come up with gmbbq, sounded pretty logical to me. I own a cheap offset stick burner and a barrel smoker, that have worked go for me thus far. When this deal came along I couldn't pass it up. Anyhow, as mentioned, I acquired an unfinished project, which is described below, and require some help in finishing it. So allow me to introduce my project to you below.

If it is recommended to start this topic in another thread, by all means, direct me and I will do so. So here it is: it's basically a shell of a potentially good smoker. It has the firebox and cooking chamber with doors in place. It uses a 24" diameter .375" wall round pipe that measures 48 inches in length for the cooking chamber and 24 inches in length for the firebox. The measured throat opening (football shape) is 19.25" by 10.50", approximately, which I think is a little on the "too big" side of things. I also believe the cooking chamber door is cut out too low and hinged in the wrong location, but there is not much I can do about this.

It's already mounted on a 48" x 72" single axle trailer and offset to one side. I want to turn this unfinished project into a reverse flow smoker and need some help in finishing the construction of it. The firebox door and cooking chamber door are already in place but the hinges need to be reworked, as they rub when opening. Being that I'm not a smoker builder, any and all help that can be provided will certainly be appreciated. I will post pics as soon as I figure out how to do this, your suggestions here will also help.

Thanks in advance for any help and all the knowledge that will be gained here. Looking forward to finishing this build and doing my first smoke with it.

Paul, a.k.a. Smokey (and now GMBBQ)
Smokey Rub BBQ

[mp4]

Welcome aboard! Sounds like a good project to follow along. It would be best to start a build thread and fill it full of pictures!

[Rodcrafter]

Welcome to the crew!

MP4 is correct as usual. If you can if you want to cut and paste the project portion of this intro thread into the RF section will be fine. In the meantime if you’re using a computer instead of a phone several things will be easier. You will see the calculator (s) in the top portion of the page. This will guide you along the way. There’s going to be several folks along here soon to help you along.


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[Pete Mazz]

Welcome

[Dirtytires]

We love rebuilds.

Welcome.

[Big T]

Welcome aboard!!

[The Czar]

Welcome aboard!!!




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[Dirtytires]

Gee wiz....gmbbq has been on board for less than a week and already gets the Czar disapproval stamp. Is that a record?

[Rodcrafter]

Nope!

[The Czar]

That’s not a disapproval ...it’s a fact!


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