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I ordered roxul insulation from the ww grainger that's 15 minutes from my shop,they left me a message it came in today, so i'll pick it up tomorrow si I can get going on this build, the insulation has to go in as I build with the cabinet being the outside of the smoker,I'd like to use it at a...
Stay away from the briquettes, and use hardwood lump charcoal to start, hardwood lump burns about 200 degrees hotter than briquettes, burns about 1/3 longer,and makes about 1/4 to 1/3 the amount of ash. We had a comp last weekend, and our offset was running with lump from 10pm Friday till 1:30...
You might want to read Dave's Tutorial at the top of the reverse flow section,and add an upper firebox damper directly across from the firebox to cook chamber opening, although daves research shows this for reverse flow smokers it does the same thing for crossflow side firebox smokers,drawing...
It will be Charcoal, Icould sand the outside and repaint, but a friend has a sandblasting company and blasts all my smokers inside and out for me.
Mike
I have a couple of mint 16 gauge 24by24by48 worksite job boxes, so I figured I could save time and materials by using one to build a new cabinet smoker, got it up on blocks yesterday,and will remove handles, wheels, latches etc today
Mike start
I only had to use 1 inch in the cook chamber door,and the backwall of the cook chamber area, the whole firebox area, and the sides of the cook chamber can be 2 inch, I'm building the smoker from the outside in using a 2by2by4ft 16gauge Job/box as a start.
Thanks Dave, I haven't done a vertical cabinet yet, and want to be able to put regular chafing pans in it, 2" roxul was no problem in the Firebox area, But 2" in the cook chamber left me 1" too short to fit the pans, I just needed to know if 1" would give me enough insulation in the cook chamber...
I'll take pics this weekend We are cooking 75 lbs of Chicken wings for 2 peoples choice contests at the kcbs comp we are in at Mohegan Sun Casino in Conn. This weekend. We have 2 Modded the same way, they fit 10 lbs of wings at a time,so they will be going all day sat for the peoples choice...
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