Is 1/2 steel too thick for the baffle plate? I hit the scrap yard today and think I can find everything I need for the build there at a fraction of the cost of the steel distributor.
I'll look for thinner then. They have every size imaginable out there. I just saw one that was already 27" x 60" so I could pull it without much effort.
I always have to draw everything out to scale before I build it. Just helps me wrap my head around where everything is going to go and the proportions of everything. Here's the initial concept.
Picked this bad boy up today to replace my small hobby grade torch. Be getting more done on the smoker build after I get my truck fixed later this week.
thanks guys. I've needed to upgrade for awhile so I'm glad to have it. Bought grade t hose and a propane cutting tip as well so I can lug it to the scrap yard a little easier as well.
I'll let ya know how it goes. From what I've seen and read it just has a longer preheat time but it seems like there's less slag on the back side of the cut.
Nice Oxy-Accet Rig. It's nice to be able to justify new toys when you're building a smoker.
I got a new Mig machine, a finger brake and a couple of small angle grinders. All because "I'm struggling without good kit".
Even the "controller of finances" did'nt splutter too much.
I'm sure you will enjoy the upgrade from hobby torch.
Learning generally boils down to "Repetition or the avoidance of pain", some people learn by doing, some by watching and some just have to pee on the electric fence.
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. Henry Ford
I got to take a break from the UDS build and run to the scrap yard for some plate for my fire box. $40 later and I had all the plate I needed for my fire box. I got lucky and the scale that weighed me going in they couldn't find that weight so I got a guy that came out and just said call it $40. I know I had 400 lbs of plate and a 4 inch sch 40 pipe 6 feet long also. At .25 a pound I got lucky. Better lucky than good any day. Anyways got to put the new torch to use which worked awesome. Here's where I got to today. Everything is just tacked heavy until everything is in place and held square. I'll rod weld it from there.