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HighTide · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2014 9:35 pm Post subject:

txluke: I guess I don't understand how this makes for even heat. Can you take a pic and send to me via email?
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txluke · Posted: Thu May 01, 2014 7:21 am Post subject:

I took it all apart after the cook off this weekend to repaint. Before I had the pipe blowing air from under the firebox, the fan would just blow on one side and the fire would burn hotter on that end. I used an infrared thermometer and one side of the grill was 220 and the other side was 235.
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HighTide · Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 10:03 pm Post subject:

Well, I've been working on it a lot, but haven't had time to update this post. You see, I'm also a wildlife photographer and a new souvenir and gift shop took up my line of photos and I was busy supplying them.

I started trying to put the 14 ga. sheets on and kept making little blobs on the chassis or making holes in sheet metal. After some discussion with a friend who's a welder, he recommended that I buy the Harbor Freight MIG welder and use flux core. After a few days of frustration, I finally started to get the hang of it.

So, I start putting on the inside skins and the back false panel.

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If changes in barometric pressure cause your joints to hurt, do pilots and divers have a lot of joint pain?

HighTide · Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 10:09 pm Post subject:

Now that some of the skins are on, I made the tracks for the grates to slide in. Though you can't tell from my photo, the long piece is a 1"X1/2" channel. The other pieces used as spacers is 1"X1" square tubing. With those spacers the exhaust channels can go down the sides. The reason there's a hole in the board holding the pieces together to weld is because I use that same board for dropping my wood router into it and dropping that into a workmate table.

I clamped the sheets between some 1"X2" aluminum bars so that I could bend it to make my channels. I could have made the channels 3 sided, but with 4 sides to them, I only have to tack them when I'm ready for them.

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If changes in barometric pressure cause your joints to hurt, do pilots and divers have a lot of joint pain?

HighTide · Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 10:10 pm Post subject:

I installed the grate tracks. I'll attach a pic later. The wheels came in today. I ordered them from:

http://www.casters-sales.com/servlet/the-42046/Swivel-Caster-with-4%22/Detail

http://www.casters-sales.com/servlet/the-39566/Hand-Truck-Tire-with/Detail
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If changes in barometric pressure cause your joints to hurt, do pilots and divers have a lot of joint pain?

txluke · Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 2:46 pm Post subject:

I picked up the same welder last year while mine was in the shop. It is a good little welder.
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HighTide · Posted: Tue May 27, 2014 4:10 pm Post subject:

I finished adding most of the skins, except the outside ones because I don't have the insulation yet. I also haven't covered the inside of the fire pit because that will be done with 1/4" plate. Added an axel and slipped on the wheels. Added the shelf guides too.

I could have saved a day of work if I would have had the foresight to extend the frame so that it would have legs on it. That way it stands a little taller.

The first picture shows the roof skin with openings for the exhaust channels to pass. You can see that I covered the bottom of the fire pit area and added a rack for storage at the very bottom.

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If changes in barometric pressure cause your joints to hurt, do pilots and divers have a lot of joint pain?

Chef Lefty · Posted: Fri May 30, 2014 9:29 pm Post subject:

Nice adjustment though.
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Grinder · Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 8:10 am Post subject:

HighTide Be sure to post a pic when it is finished.

HighTide · Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2014 9:08 pm Post subject:

Well, it's been a couple of months since I've posted anything. I really have been working on it, but not as much as I with I could. Since I live on Padre Island near Corpus Christi, the hot weather has set in. I only get about a couple of hours to work on it in the morning before the heat and humidity set in. The Redfish are at their peak for catching them, so that takes a lot of my time. I'll cut to the chase and show where it is now. The back is covered and the 2 sides are ready to be covered. The top is ready to be covered too. I've already built the oven door, but I can't mount it on hinges until I add the side skins. After I build the fire pit door, I will start the electronics. It will have a thermostat controlled fan and a propane burner to bring the pit up to temperature and to light the firewood and charcoal.

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If changes in barometric pressure cause your joints to hurt, do pilots and divers have a lot of joint pain?

ironmanstan · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 10:21 am Post subject:

brace, brace, brace, clamp, clamp, clamp, them 90's. even if you have to tack on a tempoary brace. 6013 is a good all posisition rod, excellent down hill rod too. Thats why I have like 50 c clamps. Very Happy

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RiPPin LiPS · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 10:29 am Post subject:

How's the pit lookin high tide ?? I bet your smokin with it by now. 😊😊
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RiPPin LiPS · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 10:54 am Post subject:

How's the pit lookin high tide ?? I bet your smokin with it by now. 😊😊
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HighTide · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2014 10:07 am Post subject:

I've done a lot on the pit, but here's some of what has happened. After creating the exhaust channels, I added insulation to the roof area.

I made an enclosure for a computer fan to turn on whenever the temperature dropped from where I set it.

The doors were a bit tricky because they're so heavy. I'll be posting some more pictures later today.
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HighTide · Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 8:09 pm Post subject:

From start to finish, it too 200 days exactly from the day I picked up the first batch of steel to the day I cooked my first brisket. The pit is painted with an automotive primer. I still need to finish some cosmetic issues with fire pit door. After that, I'll paint the entire outside.

These are what my temperature controllers look like.

And this is what my first brisket looked like.

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If changes in barometric pressure cause your joints to hurt, do pilots and divers have a lot of joint pain?