Ok so I recently found a killer freaking deal ($50) on a 330 (water) gallon propane tank, and in a very sketchy manner I got it back to my house...
Now, with that out of the way here are my thoughts on what to do with it. From what I have read the length to width ratio of this particular tank may cause problems with flow as I want to build a reverse flow smoker because,... of reasons...
The tank is 113" long and has a 30" diameter. Here are some sketches I put together with my plans for how to deal with this tank. In the pictures below you can see what I am thinking. Each square on the graph paper is 4 inches.
I drew these as close to scale as I could, my plan is to cut one end of the tank off to use as the fire box. If my math is correct if I cut it at 29 inches it will leave me with a fire box that is about 1/3 the size of the cook chamber after the cut. 84 inch cook chamber and 29 inch firebox.
After I cut the 29 inch section I plan on spinning it around so that I can put the door on the flat part. The grate level is right at the bottom of the door and the RF baffle is 5 inches below that and 3 inches above the firebox opening. The cooking grate and RF Baffle with both stop where the curved part of the tank stops, I was going to use 6 inch pipe 48 inches long for the smoke stack.
Is there anything that is just plain wrong about what I am planning on doing that will just not work? I only have one of these tanks and do not want to ruin it because I cut something in the wrong place.
Now, with that out of the way here are my thoughts on what to do with it. From what I have read the length to width ratio of this particular tank may cause problems with flow as I want to build a reverse flow smoker because,... of reasons...
The tank is 113" long and has a 30" diameter. Here are some sketches I put together with my plans for how to deal with this tank. In the pictures below you can see what I am thinking. Each square on the graph paper is 4 inches.
I drew these as close to scale as I could, my plan is to cut one end of the tank off to use as the fire box. If my math is correct if I cut it at 29 inches it will leave me with a fire box that is about 1/3 the size of the cook chamber after the cut. 84 inch cook chamber and 29 inch firebox.
After I cut the 29 inch section I plan on spinning it around so that I can put the door on the flat part. The grate level is right at the bottom of the door and the RF baffle is 5 inches below that and 3 inches above the firebox opening. The cooking grate and RF Baffle with both stop where the curved part of the tank stops, I was going to use 6 inch pipe 48 inches long for the smoke stack.
Is there anything that is just plain wrong about what I am planning on doing that will just not work? I only have one of these tanks and do not want to ruin it because I cut something in the wrong place.
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