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    Flat top built into round Firebox

    With a normal fire does it get hot enough to actually use as a griddle? Or do you have to crank up the fire
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    Flat top built into round Firebox

    I just measured my chunk of flat top steel, it's 3/4 of an inch! Trying to decide how to do this. I've got a few ideas. In the meantime this is where I'm at. Any opinions on if I should open up the full throat where I married up my firebox?
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    Does collector metal thickness matter?

    Thank you Smokin.....That is helpful... the quote I got today foe a half sheet of 1/4" was helpful too....ouch. $120 for a half sheet.....looks like 3/16 it is...thanks for the pics that solidified my decision...
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    Does collector metal thickness matter?

    Everything on my current build is 1/4", but I mistakenly grabbed 3/16 for the smoke collector. I have a 4 foot by 5 inch sch 40 pipe sitting on top of it. Any issue anybody can think of using 3/16 versus taking a loss and buying a half sheet of quarter inch?
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    Flat top built into round Firebox

    I did find another response through a whole bunch of digging of a guy that did something similar. He stated he stated that he got 500 plus degrees with an infrared thermometer. Going to give it a go. Have the next week off of work to dig into it.
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    Flat top built into round Firebox

    I have a flat top pulled off a commercial range, roughly half inch thick steel. Building a smoker out of 120 gallon propane tank with a smaller propane tank fire box, does anybody have any experience with actually using a flat top built into a fire box kind of like fat stack used to do...
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