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Old 06-16-2013, 05:34 PM   #181
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Finished the fire basket today.












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Old 06-16-2013, 05:59 PM   #182
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Those clamps are great, where did you get them!
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Old 06-16-2013, 06:14 PM   #183
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Great build mate. Enjoyed viewing your handiwork.
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Old 06-16-2013, 06:18 PM   #184
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Those clamps are great, where did you get them!
The cheap store, Harbor Freight.
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Old 06-16-2013, 07:41 PM   #185
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Beautiful! We may need to have a StL Brethren Bash soon... :)
AMEN TO THAT BROTHER!
Just now caught this thread, hadn't seen it before.
Awesome build Pappy, and Huntin Smoke. Very well done fellas!
Proud to call you STLians.
But I'm diggin the idea of a STL Brethren G2G.
Maybe to Christen Pappys new smoker!?!?!?!
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Old 06-17-2013, 07:49 PM   #186
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Sure looks good painted and assembled. Nothing better than coming home from a weekend of camping to a finished charcoal/wood basket. Picked up the high temp RTV today at that should finish up the smoker build. looking forward to starting it up.
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Old 06-17-2013, 09:48 PM   #187
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Congrats Pappy & Huntin Smoke. That is a beautiful rig you guys built, nice job. Whats the first cook gonna be??? Ribs, butt, brisket, chicken? All 4?
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Old 06-18-2013, 05:43 AM   #188
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Congrats Pappy & Huntin Smoke. That is a beautiful rig you guys built, nice job. Whats the first cook gonna be??? Ribs, butt, brisket, chicken? All 4?
I think we will start with some JD Fatty's to season & test it out. Plus, we need to get a feel for how its going to work. Don't want to ruin some $ cuts of meat, just yet.
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Old 06-22-2013, 05:32 PM   #189
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We ran into a big problem after the doors were bolted back on the smoker after the sandblasting & paint. The sandblasting must have warped the doors. It fit perfect before. Now they are 1/2" off from laying flush.

Here is a pic that shows one door fixed and the other door warped. You can see how far off it was.


We had to break out our "door straightener invention". We tightened all 4 bolts to compress the lid 2 1/4". After you loosen the bolts it springs back. It bent it enough to get rid of the 1/2" gap at the bottom. It's not perfect, like we wanted. We'll take it. If we had it to do over we would sandblast only the tank. Not the doors.




Applied the high temp sealer around the door. Vaseline on the tank to keep it from sticking to the tank.




The extra sealer can be trimmed off with a razor. The red sealer will turn black, the more we use the smoker.
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Old 06-23-2013, 01:13 PM   #190
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The vaseline trick is neat, I've wondered how that was done.

Can sandblasting really warp steel that thick?
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Old 06-23-2013, 01:53 PM   #191
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We read that wax paper would also work. We used it on the fire box and the paper stuck to the sealer. Don't use wax paper.
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Old 06-23-2013, 06:21 PM   #192
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What material is the red sealer? An RTV?
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What material is the red sealer? An RTV?
Good question.
Now that you mention it, it does look like a RTV high temp silicone.
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Old 06-23-2013, 10:03 PM   #194
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Great build thread and an awesome pit.
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Old 06-24-2013, 08:45 AM   #195
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What material is the red sealer? An RTV?
That is what it is a high temp RTV good to around 600 degrees
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