Check out the pit calculator http://www.smokerbuilder.com/pitcalc/ It'll give you all of your dimensions. The minimum thickness is 1/4'' and I wouldn't use anything over 1/2'' because of the weight and the amount of time it takes for the pit to stabilize in temperature.Meatisneat wrote:So if the fire box volume is 30 percent of the cooking chamber volume what is the ideal throat sq in ? How is this determined and how is chimney stack diameter determined ?
Also how thick of steel is best to make an offset reverse flow unit ? How thick is too thick? How thin can you go without having performance issues ?