That will work with the 90 deg bend. The rest of it is looking good.
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Yeah I was going to run the valve on the fire box door, but have had heard stories of it blowing ash in the cook chamber, either way I'm thinking about running the valve and guru below it similar to karate doc did.
I run DigiQ's on my WSM's for competitions now and love um, I'm just to the point I like to sleep and managing multiple cookers/fires isn't for me, I don't have the staying up and partying in me all the time like I used to. I'm going to go out on a limb and get the new CyberQ cloud and the Pitbull fan for the Gravity feed. Ill do all my proteins on the GF expect chicken ill pry stick to the drum for that still... Ill keep the updates as the come available.
Got the chute tacked up and the removeable fire grate in, now I need to order the insulation, frame tubing and sheet steel. Anyone use pickled and oiled sheeting my supplier sells it to me at the same cost as hot rolled plate.
Very nice parts, if this was mine I would heat and bend the handle on the fire grate. I did that on mine and I am really glad I did. It is so you can get a grab on it the next time you go to use it so you can drop the coals out. The charcoal sorta drags on the grate so just using the tips of my fingers wasn't easy.
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Yeah I thought of that after the runners were welded in, I'm going to revise the grate I think to more of a t handle design and to bend it down like you said.
Got a lot of my material ordered yesterday, I don't really think the prices were to bad that is what i'm paying here in Iowa . Should be able to see the frame in the following week just need insulation now...
2"X 2" X 16 GA. tube 96' - $98.88
1-3/4" X 1-3/4" X 14 GA - tube 24’ - $27.36
1" X 1" X 1/8” angle 40’ - $9.12
¾” X 9 expanded metal flat sheared to 27-3/4” x 24-1/2” (qty 4) - $42.41
That is looking good. Just a reminder to leave out the top post by the chute when building the frame to enable you to wrangle that whole lot into the frame. Weld them back in after you have the chute/firebox/difusser plate installed and square.
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
Looks awesome dude & AJ has given you a really good tip, so many people don't read the plan properly & weld that top piece on, makes it impossible to install to FB assembly.
That's some pretty nice prices for the steel, almost comparable to here, but the expanded piece price just isn't fair, I had to pay $300AUD for the sheet I got.
Yes thanks for the tips, the prints are fairly detailed really if ya take a few moments to just look them over and study them it's simple really. I'm the productions manager at a 75 person weld shop/machine shop so it all kinda works out. Here's a picture of my last project it's a shake out table for a foundry
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