Dad's Day Bandera

Hey there fellow Brethren! Wow - guess I've been too damn busy lately. Haven't been here for a week or more, and it's gonna take me forever to read all the threads that are new since I was in last. Guess I better get comfortable......
Anyway, my sisters and I got my dad a Bandera for Father's Day, which was also his 65th birthday. My sis bought it at and Academy in Austin (actually Round Rock, I think [can't even say "Round Rock" without thinkin' of those awesome donuts]), and if she told me right, it seems she may have gotten a New Braunfels one; says it doesn't say Char-Broil on the box anywhere. Either way, I need to tell dad about mods, etc. Way back when I got my Bandera, (long before the Brethren), I downloaded a drawing from the old yahoo site to make the baffle. As I recall, it had measurements and so forth with it. I went to the yahoo site, and I think it is the one that says "auotcad", etc.... But this is a dead link (at least for me). Is the one here in the Brethren files the same? I'm apparently having Acrobat problems, so I can't view it right now. Or, does anyone have the other one? Any help would be appreciated.
I think I can clue him in on other mods, seasoning, etc. He's had a NBBD for years, so he certainly knows the basics. Now I just gotta wait for him to get back from Jamaica at the end of the week so he can see what he got and I can tell him all about it. This will be almost as much fun as getting your own new cooker :lol:

Thanks Bill, I will go look in the pictures and check the other baffle out.
The pics you posted above are the ones I was looking for, so thanks for those too. That's what I used when I got my Bandera. I laid it out full-size on a piece of cardboard and checked the fit of that on the Bandera, then used the cardboard as a template to cut one from some sheet steel. I don't know what gauge I used, but I had to use a sabre saw to cut it, then bent it in a vise with a hammer. Damn thing ought to last as long as the Bandera!