120 Gal RF Smoker - In a Week?

[jwsimpleville]

Well the title says it all. I've aquire 2 of these 120 Gal vertical propane tanks and decided to see if I can build one in a week.
Anyone game for another fast paced build thread?
I took the whole week off work so I technically am giving myself 9 days to have this thing built and I am going to put a check in the WIN column.
If all else fails maybe I'll take 1 extra vacation day but that's thinking negativley already.
In all fairness I started this on Monday so I will catch everyone up on the progress made so far.

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• jwsimpleville
• Jun 10, 2014

This is the one I decided to use. I wanted to use it so it wouldn't sit out and continue to pit with rust.

 

[lendecatural]

I'm betting on the check in the win  column after that last one week build and the extra experience you gained during that one! Looking forward to seeing it!

 

[jwsimpleville]

I appreciate the great feedback and purely do this for the challenge. I am building this only to post an AD in Craigslist in the Barter section. I wanna see what I can trade it for.

 

[dandl93]

Will be fun to watch hope you have some time to post pics during the build hahahaha

Dan

 

[jwsimpleville]

Here is the tank before I started,

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• jwsimpleville
• Jun 10, 2014

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• Jun 10, 2014

 

[jwsimpleville]

Here I've built the firebox and cutting the door out.

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• jwsimpleville
• Jun 10, 2014

I've trimmed out the door.

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• jwsimpleville
• Jun 10, 2014

 

[jwsimpleville]

Today was day 3 and seemed to make the most progress.
Here I dry fitted the CC to the firebox.

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• jwsimpleville
• Jun 10, 2014

I've layed out the CC door

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• jwsimpleville
• Jun 10, 2014

 

[daveomak]

JW, morning.... Blind welds on the door flange sure look nice.... I really like that particular style tank for a smoker.... Looking good now....

Dave

 

[gary s]

Looking good, as Dave said that type of tank really makes a nice smoker, keep those pictures coming 

Gary S

 

[jwsimpleville]

Trimmed out the CC Door and sand blasted half of the CC tank. I also got the entire Firebox corners ground smooth. Should be able to get a few pictures when I start tomorrow morning.

 

[jwsimpleville]

I absolutely hate spending an entire day grinding and doing a crap ton of little things, it feels like you're not making any progress. :-(

 

[lendecatural]

Functional is pretty quick, pretty takes time......

Your smokers always show a high degree of attention to the details, great skills. BTW, I bought some of those 89 degree corner clamps....

 

[jwsimpleville]

Thanks for the feedback, I think most people call that attention to detail OCD.
Here are a few pictures that I took today. I got the majority of the CC sandblasted clean. I didn't worry about the party's that are pretty easy after full assembly.

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• jwsimpleville
• Jun 12, 2014

Then I finished cleaning up the intake openings on the firebox.

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• jwsimpleville
• Jun 12, 2014

 

[jwsimpleville]

Then as it would only make sense to happen Iran out of welding wire while I was joining the CC to the firebox.
I finished the top joint, in this picture you can see the CC door that I did a quick dry fit with

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• jwsimpleville
• Jun 12, 2014

Then while welding the underside everything abruptly stopped.

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• jwsimpleville
• Jun 12, 2014

So I lost about 3 hours that could have been spent doing alot of welding. I got another roll and should be able to get back to it in the morning.

 

[jwsimpleville]

Here's another few shots

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• jwsimpleville
• Jun 12, 2014

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• jwsimpleville
• Jun 12, 2014

 

[gary s]

Man, looking better and better all the time

Gary S

 

[fotomike]

It looks very nice!  I would like to find a few tanks like that.

 

[jwsimpleville]

Got a little more done today, here are a few more pictures.
Got 2/3 of the reverse flow plate sized and talked in place.

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• jwsimpleville
• Jun 13, 2014

Here I sketched the outline of the CC door handles, then cut them out with the plasma cutter staying just outside the lines.

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• jwsimpleville
• Jun 13, 2014

Then I tacked the 2 pieces together to grind them into matching pieces.

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• Jun 13, 2014

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• Jun 13, 2014

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• Jun 13, 2014

 

[jwsimpleville]

So clearly I didn't make the 1 week goal but I Wil get this thing done in the coming weeks. Hopefully I'll be using it by July 4th.
Here is an update, I got the cook chamber door mounted with the hinges and just finished the handle for it today.

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• jwsimpleville
• Jun 20, 2014

I should get some more done this weekend and I'll post some more pics as I go along.

 

[daveomak]

The door looks really good.... Fits tight...... nice handle...... Thumbs Up