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  1. antirice

    Making a couple 120 gallon offsets

    It's ready to come home for a good burn-in and a few trial cooks! I'll make sure there are no last-minute changes and then off to blasting and paint it goes! Started with one and a half 120 gallon propane tanks and turned them into a smoker 10' wide, 8' tall, 30" deep and roughly 1,200 lbs. A...
  2. antirice

    Making a couple 120 gallon offsets

    I did a little work on the door for the end of the FB. Test fit looks promising! I still need to make the slide supports for the vent covers and make the covers as well. But it's a decent start! - Chris
  3. antirice

    Making a couple 120 gallon offsets

    I've been slowly making progress! Flipped the smoker over and finished out the rest of the welding of the underside Got it rolled back over on its feet and got back to work on the stack. Aside from my welding ablities (or lack thereof), I'm pretty happy with how things are coming along...
  4. antirice

    Making a couple 120 gallon offsets

    Got a bit more work done today. The pipe between the two was a bit more of a bear to get in than I thought. I cut WAY too much material out in a few places (5/16" gaps in two spots - eek!) At long last though, it's in. With all of the gaps and my terrible welding skills, the outside welds look...
  5. antirice

    Making a couple 120 gallon offsets

    Finally, some progress worth mentioning! Before I go any further - I know I'm not a great welder. Feel free to point it out if you'd like, but I am very well aware of my shortcomings in this area so you won't be telling me anything that I don't already know. I'm not horrid at it though and I...
  6. antirice

    Making a couple 120 gallon offsets

    Sorry to have fallen off of the face of the earth - three kids starting up school (and extracurriculars) along with a few changes at work have made my schedule super busy as of late. I am still slowly making progress, but not much update/photo worthy yet. I have the FB to CC holes cut now and...
  7. antirice

    Making a couple 120 gallon offsets

    I love having a shop full of tools readily accessible. This is some of the process for rolling up the piece that will eventually be trimmed down to become the FB-to-CC adapter. I also went ahead and cut out the exhaust plenum parts and made a little progress on that assembly. I...
  8. antirice

    Making a couple 120 gallon offsets

    Today there was less going on in the big shop so I was able to get in there without being in other folks' way. I'm sure the boss would frown on a home project getting in the way of a paying job, so I try to be extra conscientious of what's going on before I make a mess. I started by making...
  9. antirice

    Making a couple 120 gallon offsets

    Got a lot done this weekend! First was cutting off all of the remaining legs, picking eyes, etc from both tanks. I am always apprehensive about cutting too far and getting into the base metal. Apprehension and caution considered, I still cut into the base metal more than I care to admit...
  10. antirice

    Making a couple 120 gallon offsets

    Had a break in my usually hectic schedule today after work and made a little progress. I really only meant to start a small (ish) fire - just enough to burn out the stinky stuff. I never was very good at making small fires. I burned all of the paint off of one and just about rendered my lines...
  11. antirice

    Making a couple 120 gallon offsets

    LOL I may resemble that remark! I'll be pretty busy on the homefront for the next few days, so I'll have to look into burning them out early next week. I'm looking forward to the stink being gone!
  12. antirice

    Making a couple 120 gallon offsets

    Made a few design changes and got the lids cut! I moved the firebox down and away from the CC about an inch and put what will end up being a rolled piece of flatbar between the two. That will make it so that the hole I need to cut is round and not some awkward shape. It'll also make the top...
  13. antirice

    Making a couple 120 gallon offsets

    I'm never really done, but I think I'm pretty much as far as I'm going to take it for the time being (other than maybe some baffle design tweaks). I came up with a plan for wheeling this thing to where it'll spend the rest of it's like too - removable wheels! The adjustable feet will help...
  14. antirice

    Making a couple 120 gallon offsets

    I'd like to say sorry in advance for the terribly cropped pics - it turns out that trying to keep things that'll get you in trouble for posting online out of the shot is infinitely harder when you're at work where those things are all located. Who knew?! :emoji_laughing: Got the first tank onto...
  15. antirice

    Making a couple 120 gallon offsets

    We've got a massive dryer on our air system at work because of the sensitivity of the pneumatic systems in the water jet we have here. I am pretty sure that my poor results with the plasma are 100% operator error.
  16. antirice

    Making a couple 120 gallon offsets

    We've got a half-dozen plasma cutters here at work (where I'll be building the smoker), but I'm just not a huge fan of them. Maybe I've not had a lot of time running one, but I seem to get more consistently good cuts with a cutoff wheel and a grinder than I do with a plasma. the smoothness of...
  17. antirice

    Making a couple 120 gallon offsets

    On a slightly different note, I've been looking into various suggestions as to how to cut into the tanks safely. Based on what I've seen, it looks like my best bet will be to fill the tanks completely with water, tilting ever so slightly back and forth a little to make sure that there are no...
  18. antirice

    Making a couple 120 gallon offsets

    I have a friend that's a nuclear engineer that works a lot with thermodynamics (predicting fluid and temperature movement within a reactor, for instance). I asked him about the design of my baffle at the FB to CC opening and he offered to run calculations to either verify that the design should...
  19. antirice

    Heavy Smoker - How to Move

    That'd be lotsa help, actually! come on over! LOL
  20. antirice

    Heavy Smoker - How to Move

    I didn't think about the pod people. Not a bad idea - thanks!
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