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I have posted a few bits along the way but today I feel like I'm done enough to present my latest smoker build. By the way, I know you never know but for now I figure this is my last smoker build. Just had my 70th birthday party, and I expect this one to work for me for a long time. Here she is...
I'm designing a horizontal offset around an 80 gallon air tank. This is not going onto a trailer. It will be on wheels in a yard, hardly ever moving. I restore machine tools as a hobby and a side benefit of that is I have a couple of pairs of flat wheels from the old overhead line shaft days...
A friend recently offered me the choice of 3 air tanks.
These are heavy, 3/8" wall everywhere (shell and end caps). They're all 80 gallon tanks.
I don't like a smoker body to have lots of extraneous fittings welded to it. Air tanks have lots of fittings, though - inspection ports, air inlet...
This is what I did on my last build where I was working with a 24" OD air tank. I had barely enough room for 2 levels of cooking grates:
This build is smaller. It's only 19 3/4" diameter inside (80 gallon tank). I just don't see how I can make two levels of cooking grates work in there. I'm...
Hi. I live in Kirkland, Washington. I used to fabricate steel before I retired. I built a reverse flow horizontal offset trailer smoker some years ago and really enjoyed it. I used it for awhile and then sold it for good money to a caterer. He was a little leery but after 3 weeks he emailed me...
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