Thank you Dirtytires!Dirtytires wrote: ↑July 17th, 2022, 10:29 amyou will want to add some cross pieces to box it in towards the bottom of the legs. These things are heavy and last thing you want is a hot pit falling over on someone.
This is what I did on my smoker this spring (very frist time I ever welded also), going to do the same on her's. Her's is going to be just a little smaller than mine (mine is pictured below), but her's will be a RF.Barrion2018 wrote: ↑July 18th, 2022, 6:01 amThank you Dirtytires!Dirtytires wrote: ↑July 17th, 2022, 10:29 amyou will want to add some cross pieces to box it in towards the bottom of the legs. These things are heavy and last thing you want is a hot pit falling over on someone.
Not in the pictures, are some 1" black pipe I cut that will be for cross pieces near the bottom for bracing.
I will also have some expanded metal on top of bracing for stacking wood, or whatever. "Safety First"
Thanks again for pointing that out.
ThinBlue wrote: ↑July 29th, 2022, 10:23 pmI used hood springs on my smoker. I used just one set and got about 20lbs of lift relief from the one set so I would say if you need more relief than that then you might want to double it up. At the end of my video that I did for my cook chamber my buddy briefly talks about what he did to install them but it is a far cry from an outright tutorial. I wasn't there when he did it because he snuck the work in one evening when he had about an hour free-time available.
https://youtu.be/2Wb7-4wFHMM
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I'm hoping to start on the "shadow plate" and BP this weekend, if my daughter shows up.