Recent content by codyford

Got everything finished up over the weekend and the first couple smokes/cook outs finished up.  And I must say it works great. Reran the plumbing for the burners to clean them up, turned out not to bad.  I still have some tunning work to do.  Need to back down on the propane nozzle size a...

Random question more than anything.  Anyone use lava rock between the grates & RF plate (on top of the RF plate)?  Experiences with lava rock and a reverse flow? Its for my reverse flow with propane burners (which makes it a little bit different).  All of my bbq's I've ever had I always put...

Smoke stack done.  Burners & paint tonight, first cook tomorrow.

Its coming along, albeit slower than I hoped, but there is a light a the end of the tunnel.  Not to overly happy with the air inlets for the fire box, but they will work.  Just have the smoke stack & tune the burners left to do and it's ready it to cook outside of painting it.  You can see the...

I'll get pictures up tonight or tomorrow morning.  Anyway, more done.  Hinges are done and lid's have the seal installed, and everything is ground to fit. Made the hinges out of steel bushings I had laying around for the CC lid, then just used some gate hinges for the FB, also worked out to...

Yup, already have the ball valve.  Progress is slow, but slowly getting done.  I've gotten the lids finished, cc cooking grate is complete, RF plate finished & installed,, as are the FB air vents.  Ran into a snag with the hinges, made a boo-boo and didn't have the lid properly centered, so I...

Thanks Dave, lines up well with what I was thinking.

One question I forgot to ask is with the reverse flow plate.  Are folks welding them down to the cook chamber, or is everyone just setting them down with a few place holders?  With my burners, I need to be able to access them and cannot permanently affix the RF plate to the CC shell.  I know the...

Getting more done every night, I want to have this complete this weekend. Got the end plate finished up & welded out, lids have been cut & prepped, and started on the dampeners as well.  Tonight I'm hoping to finish the dampeners on the fire box, cut out the reverse flow plate, and start on the...

Got started on it finally last night.  Like I said I'm starting with an old 80gallonish truck bed propane tank.  ~60" long, 20" od (~19.625 ID).  The FB and CC are all from the same tank.  I have a bunch of plate and am using 3/16" thick plate to seal the mating ends of the FB & CC with the...

Thanks, yeah I've heard those points as well, the debris dropping on the tube won't be an issue as the burner will be below the reverse flow plate and a layer of lava rock.  the condensation drain, I'd just drill another hole on the bottom, but I'm not overly concerned about it.  

Hey everyone, new to the forum lots of great info in here.  Anyway since I've found the calculator for detailing how to build a working reverse flow smoker I thought I'd post the build & details up on here as well. This will be my 4th attempt, my previous 3 were of crappy design, while they...