If that's the case maybe a person could paint the ash door and frame with high temp and mask off and paint the rest of the smoker with auto paint, just a thoughtBaker76 wrote:The door curb around the ash box get hot enough on mine to turn purple and sizzles if anything liquid touches it. The rest of the Smoker you can leave your hand on it.
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I was thinking of painting the top door and door curbs along with the ash door and curbs in high temp stove paint which is black and then painting the rest of my smoker with the burgundy paint.Baker76 wrote:The door curb around the ash box get hot enough on mine to turn purple and sizzles if anything liquid touches it. The rest of the Smoker you can leave your hand on it.
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I haven't done this yet myself but am almost ready to do to so, I read somewhere on this site per frank when he uses 1/4" gasket he uses 1/8" spacers between the door and sealing surface to install his hinges that way he ends up with an 1/8" squish on his gasket.WyomingLawDog wrote:Ok, I am down to a couple little last bits before my smoker is ready for paint. First question is did you weld on the doors flush with the hinges before you applied the gasket? Or did you apply the gasket and laid the door on the gasket before you welded the hinges on? I imagine that welding the doors on flush with out the gasket first would create a tighter seal, just did not know if it would be too tight to get the door to shut all the way. Second question is how did you mount the toggle latch clamps for the ash door and charcoal chimney chute door? Did you use #8 oval sheet metal screws like the small slam latch calls for mounting or something else such as rivets? Hoping to put the paint to it this coming weekend, Thanks.