My first RF build. 80 gallon air tank.

[hvactechgreen]

Sold my welder years ago when I left the industry. Swore to never touch another one. But now I'm fed up with store bought garbage and don't want to fork out $4k so looks like I'll be borrowing or buying another welder. I think I'll enjoy it more this go round.

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[hvactechgreen]

Now I know it won't post pics in the order I choose. Lol

 

[SmokinAl]

Looks like a great start!

Al

 

[hvactechgreen]

Thanks I'm pretty excited.

 

[stan69]

Nice start to it, looks like it will be a nice size

 

[smokin peachey]

Looks like you are off to a good start.[emoji]128077[/emoji]

 

[cornman]

Be sure to show us when you're done...the enginuity and creativity many of you have when it comes to designing and building is awesome.

 

[hvactechgreen]

No joke. Some of these guys blow me away with their CAD drawings. I wish I knew how to do that. All my drawings are in my head. Hopefully this will be done before summer or at least my bday in august. I will continue updating as it goes along.

 

[hvactechgreen]

Will have 744sqin of cooking grate on lower rack. Haven't decided on placement of top rack yet. I have a plenum design in mind for my exhaust stack and have to figure out how the air will flow through before deciding where that rack should go.

 

[hvactechgreen]

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• hvactechgreen
• Jan 12, 2017

Got my hole cut for the exhaust plenum

 

[sxfxz]

I would put your collector at grate level, allowing the area above the grates to heat up and for air flow to be encouraged to go across the grates.

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[hvactechgreen]

I would put your collector at grate level, allowing the area above the grates to heat up and for air flow to be encouraged to go across the grates.

http://s10.photobucket.com/user/SxFxZ/media/3D85B57C-9510-409D-B0AE-486A6169B4DD.jpg.html

I centered it between the 2 planned grates. I may cut it bigger and do that though. Good looking smoker

 

[hvactechgreen]

Hinges came in. Very pleased with them. Bending the cc door seals. Hopefully get to start welding tomorrow.

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[hvactechgreen]

Yeah, 10 years without welding really shows.

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[sxfxz]

Looks good to me! Is there a stop incorporated into the hinges or did you just have it propped up?

 

[hvactechgreen]

When I welded it I pinched the back together enough for it to pinch it. I really like the way the hinges look. They came with bolts but I bought a 1/2" rod as a guide and wound up liking the way it looked. The link for the hinges is below.

http://www.katbbqsmokers.com/customparts/

 

[sxfxz]

My handles on doors 1 and 4 are crooked...one day I'll fix them...probably not...you know how that goes. lol

 

[hvactechgreen]

Yeah I know. I wasn't going to but the more I looked at it the more crazy it made me. I realized after I posted that I posted the pic with the handle fixed. It was about 1/2" high on left.

 

[hvactechgreen]

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• Jan 19, 2017

This is the crooked handle.