That has already started looking great. In the picture of the "cheater". I though the back drop was a radio! Duh, glasses on now
What is the material used in the tubing... Looks less crumbly than the rigid panel stuff cut up.
Makin' progress ...too hot and humid here so I decided to put up another 150' of wire fence for the dogs...
Make no mistake, there ain't no powder in this Puff ! And... I'm not really a crazy person but I play one in real life
Looks good, those are some heavy duty clamps.. Tried to use the 90 degree magnets, had a difficult time keeping everything square. Ended up clamping directly to my welding table.
RichB, this stuff, the ceramic insulation, cuts easy, and you can pull it apart. I was using some leftover 2" stuff. I got to work on the Mini a little more today. As far as temps go in FarNorCal, let's just say I'm too far from the beach to get any relief:
I got the CC welded into the frame. I made the back and sides from one piece, and welded the top to that.
Then I put that part of the CC into the frame:
Then, and only then, did I add the two right side uprights to the frame and weld them to the CC.
This is coming out a lot better than the first build. Welds look nicer.
Thanks for the info. I will be using the dowel trick. Well I'm just north of Los Angeles, and work keeps getting in the way of going to the beach. So no relief here either. However it seems hot all over the country right now.
As for your smoker...WOW!!! Your really moving along there. I like the idea of building the inner panels as a unit and then placing the 2 right side uprights..
Richb
Current smokers, Mini Gravity Feed Smoker (just finished building), Cookshack electric smoker, And a Charbroil Offset Smoker.
Ribs Looking Good!! In the pic above it looks like the cook chamber is welded to the horizontal 1.5" but the horizontal is not welded to the vertical. Just wondering what's up with that.
Is this picture sideways maybe? What do you estimate the weight is at this point? I weighed my big gf each step of the way but once it hit 330, that's as far was I could go... And it was a long way from finished
Make no mistake, there ain't no powder in this Puff ! And... I'm not really a crazy person but I play one in real life
The CC as it is has the back and both sides sheared and broke into a channel -the web and legs are one piece. I welded the top to the channel, then welded that to the left side of the frame. I then welded the uprights into the frame on the right side, to match up with the sheetmetal. I then welded in the bottom, and messed it up. Grrrr. Should have welded the "C" cross piece towards the bottom of the right side, then welded in the bottom. It will work just fine, but there is a lot going on here for this old man!
Puff, I'm not sure of the weight. I had my colonoscopy done yesterday, and they weighed me with a kilogram scale. I'm down to 111 kilos! I haven't weighed in this light since junior high! I am now SOLD on the metric system! I can still pick the thing up and move it, so it is still pretty light. I'd guess less than 30. Kg's........