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If you reallywanted to withh a pair of gloves you could disconnect and raise the wood rack and pull the propane rail out after your wood is started, i feel like with the amount of pressure it will clean itsself so im going to try to leave it in at first
Tom,
I have thought that out long and hard! My plan is to fire it with propane (no meat inside) add wood to get the fire started, and if im smoking let the wood take over and shut the propane down. i ttoally realize the ashe problem, the propane rail has a quick disconnect, its a matter of just...
We made a little more progress tonight as you can see! We made another test run and I was absolutly amazed. This is my first build, so I might be overly happy, but with the propane turned to the lowest setting it will run at 150 with the dampners wide open, close half way and it runs at 180...
Azbbqguy,
We test fired mine last night, if you check out my thread I put some detailed temp info up last night, I highly recommend the center firebox. I was overly impressed at how even the temps were and how easy it was to keep at consistant temps. now I havent used wood yet my test last...
Tom,
The burner is as follows:
The mixing valve, needle valve and regulator all come from Charles Tart, Google tart propane, then look under pig cookers!
The fuel rail/burner is actually quite simple, we had some 1-1/2 medical grade pipe, and I picked a 1-1/2 3000lb cross $40.00, we cut out...
We test fired it tonight using only propane. It was extremly easy to maintain temps of 150, 175, 200, 225 consistantly. closing the dampner from the fire box to cooking chamber down to 3/4 closed really INCREASED the temps. We were able to obtain 150 in about 3 minutes with the dampner open...