The actual ID of my chimney pipe is 3.334"(it's an old 3.5" steel driveshaft out of my SUBURBAN I twisted, and decided to find a use for the old section of tube). I reran it through the calculator, and it says it should be 37.13" tall, but I only had 36.5" of pipe left, so thats what I used.Rodcrafter wrote:I wonder how long the calc says this 3.3 pipe should have been since it said the 3.5 was supposed to be 38" and you only used 36". I'm not being difficult I'm really curious how many cubic inches short it is. You might be surprised.
I have another thermometer I stuck in the chimney pipe to watch the outlet smoke temps, and am setting it mostly off of that one now. I found at around 220-240 smoke temp at the chimney outlet has it cooking pretty good, and clean.Big T wrote:A faulty thermometer can cause you a headache, glad to hear you got it figured out.
3 of us chipped in on this one, and I got it in almost new condition for $635 so it wasn't really worth building one when a pump and cylinder was going to cost me almost that.Rodcrafter wrote:Sounds like you're getting this stuff headed your way now. Congrats, I built a log splitter right after I built my larger smoker.