bvbull200's Gravity Fed Cabinet Smoker Build Thread - Under the Tutelage of Maner

Traeger already beat them to it..

 

I'm talking visible from space pink

 

If you change your font color to this pink, I am coming to GET YOU!!!

 

Only liked for the outdoor kitchen set up complete with a twin tap kegerator.

 

yeah the pig is quite hideous...

 

It does kinda hurt the eyes, doesn't it?

 

Reported, ignored, and off the Christmas card list. I hope you are proud of yourself, young man!!

 

I am very proud of myself!

 

Despite me dragging my half-sick ass out of bed late, we managed to get a number of major steps knocked out.

By the time I got out there, Maner had added a little lip to the controller recess. This is something we talked about to give a little clearance from the door and gives us a place to mount the shroud. Still plenty of space for the controller to sit and it hides the probe pass-through a little. Very clean looking.



We added the lower thermo (3" dial) and got shrouds fabbed up for them both. The lower shroud is in a holding pattern for the moment, but the upper shroud is welded in to place. A little sun and rain shade is the functional side, but they just look cool.



We also got the tie-down points tacked up. We'll finish out the welding on them later, but these tie in to the frame and should be plenty robust for tying this thing down to the trailer for transport. Maner cut them himself. They look great!





We also got the doors mounted. Here is the firebox door. I wish we had a scale to weigh it. It, like everything else on this rig, is beefy. Good indication of just how solid the finished product will be.



Here is the evidence that I do at least a little work while I'm out there :



Fuel chute door. I also welded the rest of the upper skin in to place. On the front side, there was a decent sized gap to fill from the door curb to the frame. It left a fair number of pits (or 'gappies' as Maner calls them ) that I'll have to go back over to fill in, but it's structurally sound and fully filled in.



The 5 standard racks are in. There will be 4 more added at 3" spacing in between these. That will give TONS of configuration options. Without the extra racks, I'd be left with 6" or 12" spacing between racks. The sliders are built, just need to build the racks, then put everything in place.



Me being, as Maner says, a ham for the camera .



All in all, great day at the shop with some serious work getting done. You could do a lot worse with your weekend than hang out with Frank and Maner. We had a great time. Today, we had the pleasure of being joined by the lovely Ms. @Pandaman59 and the lovely Ms. @Bigdaddy4760. They kept the dogs entertained and supervised our work .

We aren't really that far off from a test fire. There is a problem with the toggle latches that I bought in that they are too short. I'm going to look in to a longer u-bolt or just get larger latches overall. I kind of want bigger latches for the main door anyways, so we'll see. The smaller ones for the firebox and fuel chute doors are 90* latches and they just don't quite reach to the door curb. Maner got the main door handle started, too. It's a really sweet piece of hammered square bar that will get bent into shape. The rest is little things like the cap for the exhaust stack, finishing out some welds, adding the pull points for the winch, and adding the shrouds for the controller/fan areas. After that, it'll be all cosmetic work - squaring edges, filling little pits, buffing the surfaces, etc. We'll be there before long.

 

Was a great day and had a lot of fun. Ready to fire it up soon.
Should be finishing up the fabrication next time out.

 

Very cool. What will be even cooler is that you built it with your own hands.

 

Here's your next project:
https://laughingsquid.com/757-jet-e...2LAOGnRhbGDnvnEnJi79JPETnL0r3feAvTSkWVIs8GReE

 

That’s pretty cool

 

It's really cool, but I guarantee that if you dropped off a decommissioned jet engine at Maner's shop, the resulting project would be more than a sink + a 3-burner gas grill in it.

 

Full thrust for sear

 

Now we're talking!

 

Com trails would be epic.

 

Overkill much?

 

Did you watch and listen to the video? Custom built dolly (ya think?) and each caster was $3k.

 

I watched, but could barely hear it. $3k casters is nuts! I think mine were $35 a piece and I was getting cold feet.