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Well, It's been awhile since I've updated my build. Long delay due to back surgery. But I did my first smoke today after 2 seanonings and good smoking. Tri-tip, Chicken, and ABT's. Temp is easy to controll in the 250 range not so easy in the 300 to 350 range. Large smoker took a good blaze to...
Got some more done in the last few days. Fire box cut for smoke exit. Drip plate cut. Bulkhead wall cut.
The plate is 19in x 39in. x 1/4in.
Bulkhead is not installed yet. It will divide the tank where the left side of the drip plate is. The smoke exit hole from the fire box is just below...
FYI
Sept. 21, 2012. AB1616, known as the Homemade Food Act, will lift restrictions on the sale of home-cooked treats and impose sanitation and labeling requirements on the burgeoning cottage food industry. The bill excludes products that contain meat and cream and could quickly spoil.
I'm thinking this will be on casters for portability but can be trailered. I may build a dedicated trailer for it that will be easy to load and unload with ramps and a hand winch.
So....with the doors layed out with soapstone, I used a cutting wheel on my grinder to cut where the hinges will be and welded them and then finished cutting the doors. I couldn't believe how much stress was in this tank metal. When I made the final cut on the big door, the door tweaked so hard...
Well.....I got a bit more done on the smoker yesterday and today. Yesterday I cut the tank for the firebox insert and the other box saddled for the other end of the tank to sit in.
Today I checked for square and level before welding and finally I commited to the placement and welded them in...
After a lot of research, looking at other builds and taking inventory of what I have to work with, I've settled on a design for a horizontal reverse flow smoker. Got a little work done today to get a feel for what it will look like. This is it just kinda sitting together.
The left box will be...
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