Thanks, trying to figure out how I'm going to do the second one. I have read that on a offset the oversize throat is not an issue but we'll see. I have a piece of steel ready to reduce it's size, because I'm still not 100% sure I want to make this one offset or reverse flow. But it will be a while before I get that far. I had to put my welding machine in the repair shop.SheffSmoker wrote: ↑April 23rd, 2021, 4:31 amGood looking smoker, well done!
Just eyeballing it it looks similar in dimensions to mine, and your throat looks to have around twice the CSA of mine. It would be easy to either tack a plate at the top bringing it down some, or making the grease dam at the bottom taller tacking a plate in there. I would definitely revisit the pit calc though and crunch your numbers again.
Regarding the deflector up vs down - most folks on here prefer the up method, but a lot of them have stacks at grate height. I'm just in the middle of experimenting with a downward one as my stack is at the top of the CC like yours.