Recent content by mjg2688

So over the past week i have made A LOT of progress, in fact at this point it is pretty much complete! Have a couple little things to wrap up tomorrow(mainly supports for the grates I ordered.) After that its off for one final sandblast and a coat of high temp paint which i picked up this...

Should have the fire box and RF plate welded in today. Biggest thing right now is designing a frame to mount this heavy SOB onto.

Moving right along!  Firebox/grate is made just need to come up with a handle/latch and attach my air regulator plates over my intake openings.  

Made quite a bit of progress yesterday.  Was able to get the door reattached, exhaust stack welded in,  and a nice handle on the door.  Brought it home for the weekend to do my burnout.  

Apologies to anyone that was following this build, things have been crazy lately to say the least but I am BACK!   Cut the lid and opening for my firebox yesterday and got the inside sandblasted.  Surprisingly it cleaned up well and I only had two small holes to weld up.  There are some thin...

Awesome thanks for the help guys! Took some better measurements this morning and going to refine my drawing over the weekend and start cutting it apart next week. Engineer here at work is making a true drawing to go by. Hopefully have that at the end of the day.

Just tried posting my drawing again not sure why it didn't show up for you.  

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I intend to split up my air intake openings in my FB to combat the possibility of a hot spot in my fb/cc. Need a total of 20 sq inches of air intake. Plan to put a 1"x4" slot in the top of the FB across from the opening into the CC to draw the heat in more efficiently, and the remaining...

Ok so I have FINALLY reworked all my numbers using Dave's calculations. The tank is 66" in length, 20" OD so with 3/16'' wall 19.625" ID. CC - 19.959.22 cubic inches or 86.40 gal(Oversized for expansion I assume as it's labled an 80 gal tank) FB/CC Opening - 79.84 sq inches Area under the RF...

Yes after digging a little more I've found out feldons calculator has a few flaws, thank you for the suggestion. Will go through this afternoon and organize things a little better. On the bright side I got the outside of the tank sandblasted yesterday so now I can begin the repair work...

Check out my build thread and offer up some advise if you can, putting off doing too much on my build until i recieve some input. www.smokingmeatforums.com/t/246212/80-gallon-rf-smoker-build-first-homemade-build/0_100#post_1561460

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Thank you for the warm welcome! Thread for my build has been started. You can find it here.