building a custom smoker

What are all you using for gaskets for the doors on your smokers. I converted an old commercial freezer into a smoker, but I need a gasket for the door. The problem is I need a gasket to be 3/4 in thick. I love the lava lock, but they aren't thick enough. I also heard not using anything with...

Hey guys, I have recently been put in charge of a club I belong to's commissary, i.e. I have to cook for 25-50 people every weekend during the summer, and we have a small wooded property where I have been introducing the common folk to the wonders of smoking, an art I have only been practicing...