My first RF build. 80 gallon air tank.

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Sold my welder years ago when I left the industry. Swore to never touch another one. But now I'm fed up with store bought garbage and don't want to fork out $4k so looks like I'll be borrowing or buying another welder. I think I'll enjoy it more this go round.

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hvactechgreen

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Now I know it won't post pics in the order I choose. Lol

 

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Looks like a great start!

Al

 

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hvactechgreen

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Thanks I'm pretty excited.

 

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Nice start to it, looks like it will be a nice size

 

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Looks like you are off to a good start.[emoji]128077[/emoji]

 

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Be sure to show us when you're done...the enginuity and creativity many of you have when it comes to designing and building is awesome.

 

hvactechgreen

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No joke. Some of these guys blow me away with their CAD drawings. I wish I knew how to do that. All my drawings are in my head. Hopefully this will be done before summer or at least my bday in august. I will continue updating as it goes along.

 

hvactechgreen

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Will have 744sqin of cooking grate on lower rack. Haven't decided on placement of top rack yet. I have a plenum design in mind for my exhaust stack and have to figure out how the air will flow through before deciding where that rack should go.

 

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Got my hole cut for the exhaust plenum

 

sxfxz

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I would put your collector at grate level, allowing the area above the grates to heat up and for air flow to be encouraged to go across the grates.

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hvactechgreen

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SxFxZ said:

I would put your collector at grate level, allowing the area above the grates to heat up and for air flow to be encouraged to go across the grates.

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I centered it between the 2 planned grates. I may cut it bigger and do that though. Good looking smoker

 

hvactechgreen

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Hinges came in. Very pleased with them. Bending the cc door seals. Hopefully get to start welding tomorrow.

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Yeah, 10 years without welding really shows.

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Looks good to me! Is there a stop incorporated into the hinges or did you just have it propped up?

 

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When I welded it I pinched the back together enough for it to pinch it. I really like the way the hinges look. They came with bolts but I bought a 1/2" rod as a guide and wound up liking the way it looked. The link for the hinges is below.

http://www.katbbqsmokers.com/customparts/

 

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sxfxz

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My handles on doors 1 and 4 are crooked...one day I'll fix them...probably not...you know how that goes. lol

 

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Yeah I know. I wasn't going to but the more I looked at it the more crazy it made me. I realized after I posted that I posted the pic with the handle fixed. It was about 1/2" high on left.

 

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This is the crooked handle.