Well I don't have any experience with that sort of smoker. But as far as the pictures using my I phone 5s and the tapatalk app I can add pics by touching the + symbol to the left of dialog box, then just select the picture for my saved.
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Current Smokers: Backyard RF Offset and Hybrid RF Offset trailer rig with Cowboy cooker and fish fryer, always room for more........
Big T- I thought about doing that, but decided to go this route since I can wrap the entire outer skin with a single sheet of 16 gauge steel, minus the top and bottom. The inside will be 3/16 steel.
I would just build a normal vertical cooker. IMO a RF in a vertical is a waste of time and money and overly complicates a simple design that works well. Your water pan is enough of a heat sink/deflector. I don't seeing any reason to add a shadow plate. You may want to add a slanted drip flange around the perimeter of the CC just above the water pan. This serves 2 functions. Any drippings near the outside of your racks will hit this and be redirected into the pan and secondly, the heat from below the pan will be redirected into the center of the CC instead of flowing up the walls.
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Pete, thanks for your input, it really is appreciated! What size stack did you use? I have about a 48 inch piece of 4 inch square tubing that I would like to use. Thinking of mounting it to the top of the back wall so as to avoid any dripping inside the CC. Thinking the stack will rise about 10 or so inches above the top of the cooker. Thoughts?
My smoker is going to be propane. The burner assembly will get mounted below the bottom plate in that picture. The exhaust is just the 6 inch long opening you can just see at the top, back of the cook chamber. Your idea is fine, just remember that you can make the stack any length you want on a vertical cooker.
I should be able to get most of the interior skin tacked in, if not finish welded this weekend, which has me thinking about my next challenge. Mounting the doors. I think I am going to flush mount them a la the pitmaker vault smoker. My question is how do a account for the gasket that will seal the doors? As always, pics are worth a thousand words!
Even with a full overlay door, I still have to account for the thickness of the gasket. How to y'all do that? I assume that you figure some percentage of the uncompressed thickness of the gasket?
I got this from Gizmo, I stick the gasket to the door with high temp rtv (let dry) or self adhesive gasket. Then I put the door in place, wrap a couple of ratchet straps around the door and cooker and gently snug the straps. I weld on my hinge and latch and it's good to go. I have tried using shims to achieve the perfect door gap but it doesn't work as well as the method above.
OK, that sounds pretty easy. Next question: If I go with a self adhesive or RTV applied gasket, can I come back later with a tadpole type gasket that is mechanically secured to the smoker? Thanks for all your help!