Updates, delivery in a couple weeks
Have been distracted with life stuff, but the build(s) go on. Got the firebox mounted to the cook chamber and both installed on the patio base. Note the circumference cuts on the top edge of the base legs, this really worked nice!
And did the layout for the cook chamber door. This is a handy little pipe fitters tool, a magnetic frame with a level and hardened center punch. With the cooker plumb and level, just set the degree wheel at 90*/top dead center and rotate on the pipe until the level is perfect and you have TDC of the pipe, do the same on the other end and strike a like for the door top cut.
I like to center punch the ends of the cut lines (I like to drill a small hole so the plasma gets a clean start) and scribe between them with a metal scribe so I get a permanent line, then I trace over it with a metallic welders pencil, the resulting line kinda fluoresces when you hit it with the plasma making it very easy to follow.
This is another handy tool, a pipe wrap with rules (English & metric) and a real handy table of pipe circumferences ( 1/4, 1/2, 3/4 full circumference). Just put the zero mark at the TDC line, I like to hold the wrap in place with a couple magnets and, in this case, scribe/mark the 1/4 circumference for the bottom cut edge, the vertical edge and then repeat on the other end. Perfect door cut lines every time.
Used a level to double check the bottom cut line and scribe/mark the bottom cut edge.
Should be 50* and clear in the morning so out comes the plasma! Thanks for looking in.