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  1. tonyhoods

    Building a smoker out of a 55 gallon drum need help

    Here is my start finally got the door cut and hinged now I need to weld on a latch so the door stays closed and on to make the bottom part to hold the wood
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    Smoking a Tri tip this nice cold Thursday

    Awesome thanks guys so just wait till my internal temp is about 145 pull it out wrap it n let it sit for about 45 mins?
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    Smoking a Tri tip this nice cold Thursday

    How's it going every one, happy new year, need a lil advice here, I'm smoking a 5 pound Tri tip today, what should my internal temp should be? I know it's a bigger piece of meat so it's not gonna cook in 2 hours, what should be my turn around time more or less? Using the low and slow method...
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    Building a smoker out of a 55 gallon drum need help

    Your right, why mess around right? I seen the weber grates at Home Depot about 8 bucks a piece
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    Building a smoker out of a 55 gallon drum need help

    Awesome thanks a lot guys, now what can I make the grates out of? And how do I season them so they don't rust?
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    Building a smoker out of a 55 gallon drum need help

    Should I put 4 valves on the bottom or 4 pipes with nipples I would only have control of how many pipes suck in air but I wouldn't be able to control the flow
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    Building a smoker out of a 55 gallon drum need help

    I work at a machine shop so I can maybe just weld some pipe fittings and put the valves there
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    Building a smoker out of a 55 gallon drum need help

    Awesome thanks along it's this is my first smoker build, I use a small brinkman water smoker but it's to small for me now I could only do 1 rack at a time and I have to cut that rack in half just so it fits,
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    Building a smoker out of a 55 gallon drum need help

    Do I need to put more then one air I take valve at the bottom? Or is it just preference
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    Building a smoker out of a 55 gallon drum need help

    that's the inside of the barrel
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    Building a smoker out of a 55 gallon drum need help

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    Building a smoker out of a 55 gallon drum need help

    Thanks man, from what I can see the inside of the barrel walls look like a silver ish color maybe even bare metal
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    Building a smoker out of a 55 gallon drum need help

    I'm pretty sure it has some kind of lining, I'm gonna cut the top off and wash it down real good with soap n water, once it's dry I dump a bunch of wood and just let to burn? I know I have to put a valve at the bottom where my fire is gonna be right to control air I take, and holes were my...
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    Building a smoker out of a 55 gallon drum need help

    So this is my first smoker I'm building, I have a clean 55 gallon drum that had cleaning solvent in it, what can I do to make sure the inside of the barrel is safe for me to cook in any help would be great thanks
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    Need advice on a custom grate

    I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post this but I wanna build a custom rack for my small barrel smoker, I can get the material but my question is how do I season the grate so it dosnt rust? Any help would be great thanks
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    Any one near the Los Angeles area have some oak?

    I'm gonn smoke some ribs this weekend and would love some oak or something not from Home Depot I'm located near the Downey area any leads would be grea thank you
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    New to the group

    Hello every one my name is Anthony I'm from bell,ca iv been smoking meat since I was 15 but have never really mastered it I finally bought a brinkman coal smoker and today is my first time using it, I Smoking Santa Maria style Tri tip, I used Santa Maria seasoning on the Tri tip and I'm using...
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