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500gal lp tank offset smoker project
Thank you! Do you use 1/4" patching your holes? How I look at it is if your going to build something do it right!!!!.....If not then don't bother wasting your time!!!! I take pride in everything I make and know it will last the test of time- trd22
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- Forum: Side Fire Box
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500gal lp tank offset smoker project
Dave- Thank you for that info! I'm starting to come around to the idea...Like you said whats 4 more hrs?..It'd maybe take 2 maximum.. i'll play around with it a little more.... one question I have is my firebox to chamber opening being too high into the tank (almost below dead center) for a RF...- trd22
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- Forum: Side Fire Box
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500gal lp tank offset smoker project
I don't have a picture right now.... but either the person who took the tank to the scrap yard or the scrap yard cut two holes in the tank.. one in each end cap just ouside the weld.... and on opossite sides of the tank (one top, one bottom)...... almost as if someone was preping it for a...- trd22
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- Forum: Side Fire Box
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500gal lp tank offset smoker project
Thank you, I really was wanting to do the reverse flow but with the existing holes it just makes more sense to build the regular offset. Exactly! I was lucky I still had the chance to. I was so used to doing things the old way between plants and structural steel welding it was weird to me being...- trd22
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- Forum: Side Fire Box
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500gal lp tank offset smoker project
boykjo- Thank you I appreciate that advice and do understand the more even cooking of a reverse flow, but unfortunately my tank had an existing holes cut in it and I would have to patch it to make reverse flow. Which I really don't wanna mess with and end up cobbling the tank up.- trd22
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- Forum: Side Fire Box
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500gal lp tank offset smoker project
Thank you! I feel the pain, it sure helps keeping things square while welding and speeds up the layout process.- trd22
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- Forum: Side Fire Box
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500gal lp tank offset smoker project
Dave- Thank you! I will start off by saying yes it sounds easy, but there were many hours spent in CAD learning and drawing . However, once the build started it was amazing having exact measurements to follow as blueprints, and equipment to cut the firebox pannels for me. When normally...- trd22
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- Forum: Side Fire Box
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Hello, I'm currently a student in a welding program after working in various manufacturing plants and as a structural steel welder I decided that I needed to further my education. That being said I have had a lot of experience fabricating and nearing 7 years of welding background. The... -
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500gal lp tank offset smoker project
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500gal lp tank offset smoker project
Currently I am in the process of fabricating my first smoker. I have always dreamed of building my own monstrous smoker but have never had the time to. Luckily for me I'm a student in a welding program and one of the courses is a fabrication class were you have to design and build your...- trd22
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