In this shot of the inside of the beast, you would have to look close, but I have a cover over the heat shield over the burner, it's fabbed out of a 1/4" piece of S.S. plate that also acts as a support for a 1500 electric element that I use for ultra low temp smokes, using a auberins controller which works extremely well for step type temps. also you can see a tube of perforated S.S. that I made a quasi smoke tube, seems to smoke for between 4- 6 hrs using pellets.
I have to apologize for the post, not good with this kind of technology I think I got this all backwards, but you get the idea, I do have to thank all the folks on the site who have given me the inspiration to proceed with this project, people like Scooter Magoo, and such, maybe if the folks out there like what they see, I can try to post some more pics or info, well see if this works, GOOD SMOKES EVERYONE!
Built a smoke generator, not sure I'm gona use it tho!
Here is a better shot of the color, the thing is wicked in the sun, it flashes the rainbow as you move around it! also in this pic you can see the S.S. smokestacks that I welded together, A lot of work sanding the seams! plus it really really works! if you look close you can see that I added a spacer between the PelletPro and the side of the fridge to center the burner in the fridge, OCD I guess!
Here's old ugly himself doing the final wet sanding before the polishing began.
Here is what it looked like between several coats of clear. To get a decent finish, one needs to wet sand between coats.
Well,I finally decided what to shoot on the beasty, Black base coat, and burnt orange holographic 4 mil metal flake, TO COOL!
When doing a custom paint job the devil is in the details!
epoxy primer was applied to seal everything up.
OK, back to the bodywork, the door being patched up before primer.
Something like this.
I'm going to drop back and punt for a moment, these are what I used to fill all the holes in the inner liner of the fridge, to make sure they wouldn't come out, I put a dap of high temp rtv on the back of each one.
This is pretty typical for most paintjobs I would imagine, In a former life I was in the custom painting world, and at this point I wasn't quite sure where I was heading with this thing! I had at one point considered a camo vinyl wrap, but at about $300- $400, na!
TADA! Brake clean to the rescue, knocks the dog snot out of a messy situation! Next the body work begins!
As you can see in this pic, the tar seemed to be everywhere!
After most of the fitting process had been completed, I decided I would replace all the insulation with roxul, when I had removed the inner liner of the fridge I found copious quantities of tar that had been used as a seam sealer, sure was glad to find this out before moving on, but was a pain to remove.it was a along the back wall, and in the floors also in the door!
Well her you can see the process of fitting the door seal to the flashing ( which does not have the protecting plastic removed yet)
Here is a picture of the flange that the smokestacks will slide onto from the outside.
Not sure what I did for this photo, seems to be extra large, but you can see the inner smokestack flange, that is going to be used as a insert type of fitting which will allow me to remove the smokestacks for cleaning/ removal for storage.
Here you can see that I have added the tray racks and S.S. flashing. Also the holes for the smokestacks can be seen.
In this photo, you can see my lay out before I started the cutting process.
In the photo above, you can see where I have cut in a tray for whatever drips out of the smoker, later I will add a hinged door.
I'm going to give this a go and start pretty much from the beginning of my smoker build, as you can see in the photo, I've already have the inside of the door skinned with S.S. have a pellet pro installed from SmokeDaddy, which are some fine folks to deal with!
