Hi everyone I had to drop by and show you my build. It was inspired by this thread, took me days to read every post, and I hope it will be a hot/cold smoker and drying cabinet
Here's the unit, got a good deal $100
Cut the top off where the compressor was, this gave me some good scrap stainless, and added some wheels, doors off
Striped out the foam insulation doors were hardest as it was glued in, nothing some thinners and a scraper couldn't fix
Found a good local sheet metal shop, they built the flu kit and other bits
base insulation replaced with Hebel block (airated concrete) sides and top rockwool, flu installed
Smoke daddy magnum on
!800 watt 240v element in
element cover
Control box made from leftover satinless and pop rivets, old fan from fridge installed under controller
Air intake sorted, handy having a plumber brother to supply free fittings
Porthole for probes
Doors fitted with fiberglass rope and back on
Door lock isn't pretty but it compresses the rope gasket, maybe down the track I'll change it
Steam punk air blower added for dehydrating stuff
Powered it up, got to 250 F in 30 min, second probe was in the porthole
put some pecan thru a mates chipper , 100 kilo of chips should last a while
well that's where I'm at - got to sort the shelves, the one from the fridge are steel but plastic coated so gotta peel that off and wash and oil them, and then I'm cooking :)
Here's the unit, got a good deal $100
Cut the top off where the compressor was, this gave me some good scrap stainless, and added some wheels, doors off
Striped out the foam insulation doors were hardest as it was glued in, nothing some thinners and a scraper couldn't fix
Found a good local sheet metal shop, they built the flu kit and other bits
base insulation replaced with Hebel block (airated concrete) sides and top rockwool, flu installed
Smoke daddy magnum on
!800 watt 240v element in
element cover
Control box made from leftover satinless and pop rivets, old fan from fridge installed under controller
Air intake sorted, handy having a plumber brother to supply free fittings
Porthole for probes
Doors fitted with fiberglass rope and back on
Door lock isn't pretty but it compresses the rope gasket, maybe down the track I'll change it
Steam punk air blower added for dehydrating stuff
Powered it up, got to 250 F in 30 min, second probe was in the porthole
put some pecan thru a mates chipper , 100 kilo of chips should last a while
well that's where I'm at - got to sort the shelves, the one from the fridge are steel but plastic coated so gotta peel that off and wash and oil them, and then I'm cooking :)