Hello SMF Friends! Hope everyone's week is off to a good start.
Those of you who followed my last build, a 24x42 reverse flow patio smoker, probably know that I recently sold that pit to Ryan (
Brokenhandle
). He seems very happy with it, which makes me even happier!
So anyway, as I was wrapping up that thread, I got to joking around with Jim (
JLeonard
) about building him a custom, made-to-order smoker. Well turns out it was no joke! He has given me the honor allowing me to build him a custom Vertical Offset Cabinet smoker. Picture a Lonestar Grillz 30" Vertical Offset...and you'll have a good idea of what we're designing. It won't look identical to this smoker - but pretty close.
So anyway, after talking some with Jim, and after doing some planning and designing, I've come up with a plan that Jim has approved. I'm attaching some drawings I did (PDF files below) - I'm too tech illiterate to use CAD, or other design software- just old school graph paper and drafting tools for me!
So I went to the steel yard yesterday, and spent a bunch of Jim's money LOL!!
Got everything off the trailer except the 1/4 inch plate: a couple 4x8 sheets of expanded metal, along with most of the square tubing, angle iron, flat bar stock, and round bar stock I'll need to complete this build.
It turned out to be quite a challenge for one old fat guy working by himself to figure out how to handle those 4x10 steel plates. I Googled it, and a single, 4x10 plate of 1/4 inch steel weighs in at 408 lbs.
This on/off switching pickup magnet definitely helped...
So next up, I'll need to spend most of a day laying out all my plasma cuts in those plates, then getting them cut out. This is the boring stuff...the fun stuff doesn't really start until I start welding steel panels together!
Anyway, that's all for now...but there'll be much more to come! I hope you'll come back and check up on my progress as I go. Barring any setbacks, I should get most - or all - of the plate plasma-cut this week. We're having some uncommonly mild, warm weather - and I'd like to take advantage of it before it gets so cold I'd rather not be in the shop!
Stay tuned!
Red
Those of you who followed my last build, a 24x42 reverse flow patio smoker, probably know that I recently sold that pit to Ryan (
Brokenhandle
). He seems very happy with it, which makes me even happier! So anyway, as I was wrapping up that thread, I got to joking around with Jim (
JLeonard
) about building him a custom, made-to-order smoker. Well turns out it was no joke! He has given me the honor allowing me to build him a custom Vertical Offset Cabinet smoker. Picture a Lonestar Grillz 30" Vertical Offset...and you'll have a good idea of what we're designing. It won't look identical to this smoker - but pretty close.
So anyway, after talking some with Jim, and after doing some planning and designing, I've come up with a plan that Jim has approved. I'm attaching some drawings I did (PDF files below) - I'm too tech illiterate to use CAD, or other design software- just old school graph paper and drafting tools for me!
So I went to the steel yard yesterday, and spent a bunch of Jim's money LOL!!
Got everything off the trailer except the 1/4 inch plate: a couple 4x8 sheets of expanded metal, along with most of the square tubing, angle iron, flat bar stock, and round bar stock I'll need to complete this build.
It turned out to be quite a challenge for one old fat guy working by himself to figure out how to handle those 4x10 steel plates. I Googled it, and a single, 4x10 plate of 1/4 inch steel weighs in at 408 lbs.
This on/off switching pickup magnet definitely helped...
So next up, I'll need to spend most of a day laying out all my plasma cuts in those plates, then getting them cut out. This is the boring stuff...the fun stuff doesn't really start until I start welding steel panels together!
Anyway, that's all for now...but there'll be much more to come! I hope you'll come back and check up on my progress as I go. Barring any setbacks, I should get most - or all - of the plate plasma-cut this week. We're having some uncommonly mild, warm weather - and I'd like to take advantage of it before it gets so cold I'd rather not be in the shop!
Stay tuned!
Red
