We left a 12" there. I was wondering about that. What do you think on that, we can more or take out more.Gizmo wrote:How big is your BP gap? I can't see it in the pic
I can add 6 inches to the BP. We can do that tomorrow before we light it up.Gizmo wrote:That seems a little large to me. I was thinking about a 6 inch gap to start. That should be about the same area as the new throat you cut.
agspecialties wrote:well guys we fired it up this morning at 845 with in 20 mins and a bag of charcoal, it was 7 Degrees outside we hit 100 in the cooking chamber. We are excited to see that, because with the first fire up it was 30 out side and it took 3 hours just to bring the thing up to 100 with smoke rolling out everywhere. Now the only smoke is coming from the stack.
Will keep you guys posted
Thanks for the clarification on the FB, I thought I'd check 'cause you never know....agspecialties wrote:UPDATE:::::
Ok guys the FB is sealed tight.
At a hour and 5 mins, the cc is at 225 degrees and its about 10 degrees outside with no wind. Give me another half hour and it should be up to temp.
Then what do we do? Choke her down or just let it rip??
everything went really good. We played around with it till we ran out of wood. Then we closed her down. Saturday we are going to fire her up and cook on her for the first time. I feel pretty good about it. We maintained 300 for hours in cold weather so i am thinking we should be allright.Big T wrote:Sounds like you've got it going your way now. How did the rest of your test run go ?